The 10 Best Classical Music Tear-jerkers
What's the saddest piece of classical music? We've got some suggestions for the biggest classical tear-jerkers of all time... 1. Giacomo Puccini - Sono andati? (from La Boheme) Because this is an opera, someone has to die. Unfortunately for poor Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme , it's her. Not only is she separated from her true love, riven with consumption and hacking into her hanky like an audience member in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, she's also decided that Rodolfo is her one true love - here, the two of them reminisce as Mimi meets her tragic end… 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem Mass in D minor It'd be nice to think that the rather more dramatic scene depicted in Amadeus , where Mozart on his death bed blurts out his last ever composition to an eagerly transcribing Salieri, was exactly how it happened. However, it's widely accepted now that it was a rather more sedate affair - Mozart slippe...