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The most beautiful melody ever written

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Insidious Von

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I second that!

This would be runner up. There was a trend in the 80"s, current composers would get into an isolation chamber in an attempt to finish this:

 

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The Toccata from Charles-Marie Widor's Symphony No.5 (this is the Organ for which Widor composed this piece).
 

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Seriously...

The adagio (second movement) from Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.

Or...

The adagio (first movement) from Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Or...

The second movement (The Kalendar Prince) from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

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Seriously...The second movement (The Kalendar Prince) from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

Perry
Yes that is lovely, however, I am perhaps fonder of the third movement (The Young Prince and The Young Princess)

He was an Officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, but kept taking leaves of absence by the end becoming a professor at the Saint-Petersburg Conservatory, the Navy increasingly frustrated finally hit upon the masterstroke of making him Director of Naval Music.
 

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John Tevener: The Song of Athene

It sounds centuries old but was written a dozen years before the death of Diana.

 
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