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An “Overture to Death”. . . . 

Hundreds of suicides has been related to this piece of music. The composer and his wife were victims too .. 

And there’s a reason for that! Ever heard of “Rezso Seress” ?? The men behind ‘Gloomy Sunday’ aka the ‘Hungarian suicide song’. Well , certain things in life goes unnoticed, uncared, but the dimension it creates in one’s existence is just inevitable. 

Music is one such form of energy, a phenomenon which motivates, heals or even sometimes care a broken heart! Music’s amazing powers have healed peoples of dreadful diseases over the years. But, a dark side of music too exists simultaneously, its not always the positive upbeat posh music but there are certain piece of music which might lead people to depression, sorrow, anxiety and at last a mandatory suicide!! 

A song that has been known for years to cause such acts is Jim Morrison’s “The End”. It has lyrics which is dreadfully depressing and melodies with some sort of sad endings but a certain music piece of the 1930’s has been however christened as what we called “An overture to Death”. This rumoured piece was “Gloomy Sunday” by the Hungarian composer and pianist ‘Rezso Seress’! One Sunday, Seress sat at the piano in his apartment, gazing morosely through the window at the Parisian skyline. Outside storm-clouds gathered in the grey sky, and soon heavily rain began to pelt down. “What a Gloomy Sunday” said Seress to himself as he started playing on the piano’s ivories, and quite suddenly his hands began playing a strange, sad melancholy melody that seemed to encapsulate the downhearted way he was feeling over the quarrel with his girl and the state of the dispiriting weather added to his sad melodies. Well that was the birth of ‘Gloomy Sunday’ aka the ‘Hungarian suicide song’!! ‘Gloomy Sunday’ has urban legends attached to it. It has rumours, which helds it being responsible for 100 love-sick depressive lovers over the edge. One after another these depressives listened a few bows of this music and head off to find out the nearest cliff to jump off! 

Yeah, It is said that you will commit suicide after listening to this piece of music. . . What do you think?? Do you think, what you think will happen.....? Is this innocent piece of music so much strong to lead you to something what has only numbness? Well, the answer to these freak questions is not exactly NO! We are gonna share a few true facts about the melody of the song that makes it so sad, depressing! The Harmony, the words in this song are designed in such a way to manipulate us to feel sadness. Also the descending bass line, which takes away all the potential of the ascending melody to create anything positive. 

The Melody itself has elements of yearning within it. Never really arriving at a solution. So as if you are searching for an answer... and there’s no answer to the question. You will be paralelly searching for the answer, but you are lost and lost in this ‘Dark Sphere of sadness’! Surely we are not gonna put the blame entirely on the music but the life-sick losers have to share a part of this blame. Anyone who is already done with life, is in despair ,will get such a high by the vocabulary of the song that will lead them to do things like ‘suicide’ . . . . 

Although recorded and performed by many singers, but in 1941, Billie Holiday scored a hit version of the song. Owing to unsubstantiated urban legends about it’s inspiring hundreds of suicides , ‘Gloomy Sunday’ was titled the ‘Hungarian Suicide song’ in the U.S. Even though the death’s related to ‘Gloomy Sunday’ has not been scientifically proved but the death of composer Seress was somewhat due to depression and trauma caused by his imprisonment and his mother’s death in a Nazi’s Camp . Also other reports says that Seress lost his beloved and out of shear depression and anguish created such a scenario. 

The legends goes unexplained and the mystery yet remains unsolved but it is quite reliable to abide by the fact that the ‘Gloomy Sunday’ has in it something that may lead to something like ‘SUICIDE’!! We just want you to go through these lines once: 

“Gloomy is Sunday, With shadows i spend it all My heart and I Have decided to end it all Soon there’ll be candles And prayers that are said i know Let them not weep Let them know that i am glad to go Death is no dream For in death I’m caressin’ you With the last breath of my soul I’ll be blessing you. . . . ”