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  • Welcome back.

  • Today, we will be talking about the five biggest...

  • Oh yeah, it's-

  • This channel's gonna go all conspiracy all of a sudden.

  • Joe Rogan, watch out!

  • Yeah, Joe Rogan.

  • Should we make one of those like,

  • clickbaity thumbnails? Like...

  • "The truth about Tchaikovsky."

  • "The dark secret about Sibelius."

  • - Ooh... - *gasps*

  • "Was Beethoven really deaf?"

  • Alright, anyway.

  • Anyway, let's get started.

  • Alright, the first one!

  • A ha ha ha ha...

  • If you haven't heard the Requiem,

  • what are you even...

  • do you even call yourself a classical musician?

  • You don't even deserve to watch this channel.

  • Go listen to a req-

  • No, finish this video,

  • and go listen to a requiem.

  • - 90% of people just click off. - Yeah.

  • So there's a lot of...

  • mystery and uncertainty surrounding Mozart's Requiem

  • and his death.

  • 'Cause he actually composed it as he was dying.

  • So the first thing that was kinda strange was

  • Mozart got this from an anonymous commissioner.

  • Nobody knows who actually paid him to write this piece.

  • Mm...

  • A little bit suspicious!

  • It gets even more sus.

  • He wrote this piece while he was getting sick.

  • He was deteriorating health.

  • That in itself is kind of also a conspiracy 'cause...

  • no one really knows how Mozart died.

  • - There's a lot of debates. - Yeah.

  • Some people think he was poisoned.

  • Mozart himself thinks he was poisoned.

  • Other people thinks he just had some disease.

  • But then, even then,

  • - there's a lot of debate to what type of disease he got. - Yeah.

  • There's no evidence for this,

  • but one popular story actually was that

  • Salieri poisoned him.

  • Do you know who Salieri is?

  • He's meant to be Mozart's rival,

  • though some people said

  • they were actually close friends, but...

  • The "narrative" is they were rivals,

  • and Salieri hated him.

  • Because, apparently, Mozart was just a lot better.

  • Oh yeah, a lot more talented.

  • I think that's why

  • Mozart himself thought he was getting poisoned.

  • And it's funny 'cause...

  • you know, the movie, Amadeus, right?

  • In the movie, they actually portrayed the scene

  • where Mozart receives the commission

  • to write the requiem,

  • and the guy that gave it to him is

  • Salieri in a black mask...

  • Ooh...

  • ...symbolising death.

  • Maybe Salielue-

  • Salier-

  • So hard to say the name.

  • (both) Salieri.

  • ...knew he was gonna die,

  • and be like "You're gonna die anyway."

  • "I'm just letting you know."

  • - Yeah. - "Write your last requiem."

  • - Alright, but this is not just it, alright? - Yeah.

  • So Mozart actually never finished it.

  • He died while composing the Requiem.

  • It was finished off by a man named...

  • Brett: So off!

  • Very off. I'm sorry.

  • - "Süssmayr." - But that was Mozart's pupil.

  • Now here's the thing.

  • ssmayr...

  • No, it's Süssmayr.

  • - Alright, see this is already sus, right? - Yeah, Süssmayr. Yeah, Süssmayr.

  • Thessmayr.

  • When he was completing it,

  • he actually hand copied what Mozart had written up to,

  • and copied the whole thing.

  • so there's actually...

  • in the finished draft, there's no evidence showing...

  • - that Mozart- - what was Mozart's and what was his.

  • There is some...

  • I have read some evidence,

  • I don't know how legit it is,

  • that Mozart composed

  • up to the first 8 bars of the Lacrimosa,

  • which is... kind of the most famous one actually.

  • It's kinda creepy that he just finished that theme,

  • and then he was gone.

  • Regardless of how much Mozart actually composed,

  • here's the real seedy bit, alright?

  • In 1950,

  • - the unfinished manuscript was found in Brussels, - Yup.

  • and the last page was torn out.

  • Ooh...

  • So someone stole it from his death bed...

  • - Was it Salieri? - It was Salieri.

  • He's like "I can't give this guy all the credit."

  • Nobody knows. There's a lot of controversy.

  • All that we know is...

  • Beethoven said...

  • There you go.

  • - So you never really know. - Yeah.

  • But go check out the piece.

  • - Yeah. - It is haunting.

  • - It's not like any other Mozart though. - Yeah.

  • 'Cause Mozart is usually so like...

  • light and cheerful,

  • and there's this freaking requiem that's just like death.

  • It's like "Yo, are you alright?"

  • He's like "Yeah, I'm dying."

  • Next one!

  • Was it a suicide note?

  • Mm...

  • Known as the Pathétique-

  • Pathétique?

  • - The Pathetic Symphony. - Yeah, yeah, known as the Pathetic Symphony.

  • I used to actually think that.

  • - Oh, the Pathetic S- Ha ha ha! - Yeah, I thought that's what it meant!

  • 'Cause pathétique used to mean...

  • pathos, like passion, right?

  • I know the meaning means, like, Passionate Symphony.

  • We'll just call it the Pathetic-tique Symphony.

  • This was Tchaikovsky's last symphony.

  • 6th one, yup.

  • Yeah, and then it was...

  • 9 days after it premiered,

  • he died.

  • Dude...

  • How do you time that ****?

  • Yeah!

  • A lot of composers

  • died before hearing their last symphony.

  • - Yeah, but he actually did. - But it's like...

  • It was just too coincidental.

  • I know. I think maybe his willpower was just holding on.

  • He was like "Ugh!"

  • Or maybe something else happened.

  • So there has been a lot of theories going on.

  • During the first performance,

  • Rimsky-Korsakov asked Tchaikovsky

  • whether there was a programme to the new symphony.

  • So by programme, he means

  • - is there hidden meaning behind the symphony - Yeah.

  • - rather than just music for music itself, right? - Yes.

  • Yeah. And Tchaikovsky said there was,

  • but he wouldn't share it.

  • Mhm.

  • He basically said it's gonna be a mystery for anyone to guess.

  • And his quote's like...

  • I'm like...

  • "Dammit, Tchaikovsky."

  • I swear all the composers do this ****.

  • I know! It's just like

  • "I'm not gonna give you guys everything, ha ha ha ha."

  • But here's what gets really interesting.

  • There's so many stories about how Tchaikovsky died.

  • But the official "story" that he died was from cholera.

  • - Basically, cholera- Yeah. - From drinking tap water, right?

  • - Unboiled water, just tap water. - Unboiled water.

  • Glad we live in good times today.

  • Which is like, how do you live your whole life...

  • and then just one day, as a grown adult,

  • - forget to boil the water and die? That's so sus, right? - Yeah, the dumbest-

  • - That's the dumbest reason to die. - Yeah.

  • And right after the premiere of the last symphony.

  • Yeah, like...

  • If it was a freak accident,

  • - like something happened. - Yeah.

  • Okay.

  • But something within his control, with his like...

  • - habits. - Mhm.

  • How do you forget to just boil water?

  • - If you've been boiling water your whole life. - Yeah.

  • - So that's a bit suspicious already. - Mhm.

  • He had symptoms of "chlorea" after the premiere.

  • Cholera.

  • Cholera.

  • Whatever, but...

  • he also refused for doctor to examine him.

  • Really?!

  • That's suspicious.

  • Why would he not want a doctor to look at him?

  • Yeah.

  • It's like, he just wants to die. He doesn't want to...

  • reveal what's actually happening.

  • Like he died on the bathtub, saying

  • he wants to be left alone, all that stuff.

  • Yeah.

  • There's a few theories out there

  • why Tchaikovsky's-

  • - would have "committed suicide." - Mhm.

  • One of those says

  • "Back then the cholera disease"

  • "brought death only in the worst cases,"

  • "which is not his case."

  • Alright?

  • "An expert witness working in British National Poison Unit"

  • "stated that..."

  • "The reported symptoms of Tchaikovsky's illness"

  • "fit very closely with 'arsenic poisoning.'"

  • - Oh... Really!? - Mhm.

  • - So they're saying it isn't cholera. - Mhm.

  • - That's what they're saying. - Yeah.

  • But this ties in quite well to the context of the situation

  • Tchaikovsky was gay.

  • That at the time was very illegal...

  • Not very ille-

  • - It was just illegal in Russia. - Yeah.

  • Yeah, most- a lot of the world...

  • - was very harsh, yeah. - The whole world was like that. Probably, yeah.

  • So...

  • that probably, I think most probably

  • played a mental game with him.

  • - Mhm. - And he even faked a marriage.

  • His marriage was designed

  • to stop people gossiping about his love life.

  • Yeah, actually, apparently...

  • they were only married for six weeks as well.

  • - Bro. - Bro, he tried.

  • That is rough!

  • I mean he just gotta...

  • - I guess it's survival, right? Back then. - Yeah.

  • He had to try his best.

  • And in fact, it says here:

  • "He was in love with Vladimir Davydov."

  • Davydov?

  • Uh-huh.

  • His nephew.

  • I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do

  • to create good music, so-

  • Ha ha ha ha! I won't judge.

  • - I won't judge! - I'm not one to judge, but...

  • whatever...

  • - floats your cup of Chai Tea, Tchaikovsky. - Yeah.

  • One of the popular theories...

  • And again, there's no hard evidence,

  • people are still-

  • musicologists are still looking to it,

  • is that he was actually ordered to kill himself.

  • The order like, to restore his honour.

  • Yeah, the court ordered him to kill himself

  • because they found out about...

  • his...

  • - homosexuality. - Yeah.

  • And they didn't want that to become famous

  • because, you know, Tchaikovsky was a icon-

  • like a figure within Russia.

  • But you think about it, that narrative...

  • is a lot more believable.

  • That makes a lot more sense.

  • Before you guys go like

  • "Oh, maybe these guys are just thinking to much,"

  • "overthinking it."

  • I think, to me,

  • the biggest clue is in the music.

  • Tying back to with his 6th symphony suicide note, right?

  • Because it's not just the fact that

  • it was written-

  • I mean, it premiered 9 days and then he died, but...

  • it is the only symphony

  • that ends on such a depressing...

  • - Yeah. - 4th movement.

  • The only Tchaikovsky symphony, if I'm correct.

  • Yeah, it's not like triumphant.

  • The 3rd movement, and it's very triumphant.

  • It's the ending that you would expect from a symphony.

  • - And that's why everyone claps afterward. - Everyone claps. They're like

  • - "Oh yeah! WOO!!" - It sounds like an ending.

  • And then boom! Out of nowhere,

  • the final movement is actually the most tragic sounding...

  • almost sounds like a requiem.

  • - It sounds like... death. - Yeah.

  • And that's why

  • when you take all that into account,

  • it's very... like...

  • It's such a shame...

  • Tsk. Very tragic...

  • Alright, how's this one?

  • This one's for you music nerds out there.

  • What is the Enigma?

  • Oh!

  • Some of you might not know it,

  • but I'm sure all of you have heard this before.

  • It's basically a collection of 14 variations and a theme.

  • But it has become popularly known as

  • the Enigma Variations, because...

  • It is believed...

  • That there is a hidden...

  • Theme that goes throughout the piece.

  • And here is the thing, right?

  • Nobody knows what the theme is,

  • Elgar said there was a theme but he didn't tell people,

  • just like Tchaikovsky.

  • Ah! It's so annoying!

  • - He's like... - He's like, "you guys figure it out."

  • "Oh, you guys guess it out."

  • And to this day...

  • People have theories

  • but no one has conclusive answer to it.

  • All right, some background context.

  • It - Uh...

  • Elgar loved...

  • Codes.

  • He wrote this thing called the Dorabella Cipher.

  • Just coded a letter to his friend.

  • Why not?

  • In the premiere of the Enigma Variations, he wrote...

  • So that's the real...

  • Hidden theme.

  • So the famous opening theme...

  • Da la da la da laThat's not the actual enigma theme.

  • There's another theme that goes on throughout, right?

  • So, later on...

  • Elgar gave six conditions...

  • To the theme.

  • - Dude... - All right?

  • There's a theme...

  • He made a counterpoint to it...

  • And that counterpoint is the one he...

  • Kind of hides throughout the Enigma Variations.

  • So, kind of can be overlaid on top.

  • So, 19 bars.

  • So, anytime anyone came up with a solution that

  • violates one of these six conditions...

  • It's invalid.

  • Dude, it's like an escape room.

  • Some people think the theme is God Save the Queen.

  • - Some suggested Mozart's Prague Symphony. - Ooo.

  • Beethoven's...

  • Beethoven's Pathétique.

  • Some people even suggested...

  • A Lutheran melody called Ein feste Burg.

  • Personally, we are not...

  • - That skilled in music theory and - Yeah...

  • counterpoint to figure it out.

  • But if anyone of you are interested in that type of thing,

  • definitely check it out.

  • You know each variation's written for

  • a different friend as well, right?

  • - Wow... - So it's like coding your friend's personality into music.

  • What a nerd.

  • Yeah, like...

  • He had so much time, that guy.

  • I love it. Yeah.

  • All right, next one.

  • Where is the manuscript?

  • *Gasp*

  • It's his biggest project he spent.

  • All right?

  • - Like, 20 years composing, yeah. - Really?

  • And he never really officially published it.

  • - Okay. - So, the story goes that...

  • He's always...

  • Trying to finish it but he just burns it.

  • - You know, last few pages, just burned it. - Yeah, I've heard that he just destroyed it.

  • Why are you destroying it? Just keep it for reference.

  • - Yeah. - Like, come on, man.

  • 25 years later, in 1945, he wrote...

  • Bro...

  • This guy's such a perfectionist.

  • - Yeah. - It's the typical...

  • Well, he did quit violin.

  • - He did. - Cause he was like, "I wasn't good enough."

  • - But then he composed the Sibelius concerto. - Yeah, I know.

  • It's like bro...

  • Yeah, it's like, dude, I'm pretty sure you're all right.

  • He wrote almost no music for the rest of his life.

  • And his daughter...

  • Said that the Symphony 8 did not exist.

  • So it's weird...

  • How his daughter said that, but he said he finished it...

  • And still not satisfied with it, all right?

  • Did he actually finish it or is he just drinking vodka

  • - and pretending to be productive but he's just not... - Yeah, probably. "Ahh! It's in my head."

  • So you don't really know...

  • If it's - If he's finished or not, right?

  • But there's fragments of it found...

  • ...From scholars have been catalogued.

  • That there were sketches of this symphony....

  • The ending, but...

  • Several of the manuscripts have been...

  • They're just been identified but it's never complete.

  • No one really knows, like...

  • Was he just uncomfortable with it...

  • Was it...

  • Like he doesn't want to...

  • Share...

  • His experiments?

  • Cause, you know, composers always experiment.

  • They try things.

  • After a certain phase.

  • That's why we have these revolutions in composition.

  • No one really knows

  • what his real intention was about this.

  • So, we actually just found this too.

  • Literally, two days ago.

  • That...

  • Some musicians...

  • Tried to recreate...

  • An idea of what the 8th symphony

  • would have sounded like...

  • Based on these sketches that were being identified.

  • Again, it's tentative, there's no proof that that was...

  • His intention of the 8th symphony, but...

  • I don't know, you got to check this out.

  • - What an opening. - It's... It's just...

  • Yeah.

  • Those harmonies.

  • - You can tell he is evolving. - Ah...

  • Yeah.

  • He always sought after perfection, um...

  • His approach to symphony writing is the most...

  • Structural integrity you can get.

  • So, in the classical era,

  • Symphonies were 20 minutes, and then Beethoven...

  • Bruckner, Mahler became like over an hour long.

  • Sibelius was compressing it..

  • To see how concise...

  • He can present all the musical ideas.

  • And his 7th symphony was just 20 minutes.

  • One movement.

  • And it's just such a shame...

  • That we never heard this 8th one

  • cause I'm so curious what it would sound like.

  • - 15 minutes or what... - Maybe he wanted to do it

  • within 15 seconds, you never know.

  • Sacrilegious Sibelius.

  • All right, last...

  • Meme, I mean, conspiracy.

  • You guys may have heard about this.

  • But it's the curse of the 9th.

  • Ooo...

  • That's right.

  • Why did composers always die after the 9th symphony?

  • Some people did less -

  • Shostakovich.

  • Shostakovich did, but he is an exception.

  • A lot...

  • - But a lot of them... - I mean, here's a list, all right?

  • Schubert died in the middle of writing his 10th.

  • Bruckner died, his 9th was unfinished.

  • The list goes on.

  • To give you a bit of context, before Beethoven...

  • People wrote a lot of symphonies.

  • Haydn wrote a 107, Mozart wrote 41.

  • And here comes Beethoven...

  • This pivotal historic figure in classical music.

  • And he dies after the 9th one.

  • And since Beethoven...

  • People have been dying...

  • After the 9th.

  • Like what the ****?

  • They just drop dead after the 9th one.

  • I don't know why I am laughing, it's just so like...

  • - Why? - Yeah.

  • There's always stories about composers...

  • - Freaking out. - Yeah, they were genuinely scared to write the 9th one.

  • Some examples, all right?

  • Mahler was obsessed with the curse and...

  • After writing his 8th symphony,

  • he wrote "Song to the Earth", which is basically...

  • A symphony.

  • But he refused to call it a symphony

  • and called it a song cycle.

  • And then he wrote -

  • He eventually wrote the 9th symphony.

  • It's funny cause the end of the 9th symphony

  • almost sounds like death, right?

  • - It's freaking long. - It's like transcendent.

  • But then he was like...

  • I'm still alive.

  • I beat the curse!

  • So he went to start his 10th one and then he died.

  • It's like bro...

  • Philip Glass...

  • Wrote his 10th symphony before premiering his 9th.

  • He's like, "I'm not gonna perform my 9th,

  • I'm gonna write my 10th first."

  • This guy was thinking ahead.

  • Schoenberg even wrote about it, he's like...

  • Oh my god.

  • Might be just coincidence.

  • If there's some actual curse on composers...

  • - Who knows? - I also wonder what type of psychological...

  • Self...

  • Infliction, they could be doing with this curse.

  • Possibly.

  • What if these composers were possessed?

  • By some...

  • - Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. - Maybe they made a contract with the devil

  • - to get really good composing skills. - Yeah.

  • Like Paganini, but like...

  • - But yeah, but then you have to die by the 9th symphony. - The composer devil. It's like...

  • "All your symphonies will be remembered."

  • "But there's a 99% chance..."

  • "You have to give me your soul."

  • - "When you hit your 9th symphony, time's up." - And you can't even... Yeah, time's up.

  • "That's the rule." And they sign it.

  • That's so weird though, it's just...

  • And for Schoenberg to even say that.

  • Yeah.

  • He who wants to go beyond it must pass away.

  • Was that a quote from the devil?

  • - Composers out there, let us know. - Yeah.

  • - If you hit your - - Be careful.

  • Be careful if you hit your 10th symphony.

  • Once you go pass 11th and 12th, you're fine.

  • Yeah, all right, cool.

  • Did you enjoy this video?

  • Hope you did. If you did, hit like, subscribe.

  • Definitely helps the channel out and um...

  • Now it's practice time!

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