This is one of my favorites.
It was written by Joachin Rodrigo, a Spanish composer. He was blind, and he never knew how to play the guitar (being trained as a piano player), but his music is just so delightful. This piece - and the Adagio movement in the attached video, in particular - was composed as a tribute and memorial to his first child. His wife had a miscarriage, and the music reflects the feelings of loss and pain associated with the loss of his first child.
There are those who feel that a miscarriage is not a reflection of a real child's death, but everyone I know who's been through something like that feels the real sense of loss and pain associated with the absence of a child, whether the child is seven months or seven years or seventy. Or with seven months left in gestation...
And there are times when music just matches one's soul, one's feeling, one's mood. This piece brings me to tears every time I hear it. So lovely, so haunting, so perfect. As the Koreans would say - refreshingly sad.
It was written by Joachin Rodrigo, a Spanish composer. He was blind, and he never knew how to play the guitar (being trained as a piano player), but his music is just so delightful. This piece - and the Adagio movement in the attached video, in particular - was composed as a tribute and memorial to his first child. His wife had a miscarriage, and the music reflects the feelings of loss and pain associated with the loss of his first child.
There are those who feel that a miscarriage is not a reflection of a real child's death, but everyone I know who's been through something like that feels the real sense of loss and pain associated with the absence of a child, whether the child is seven months or seven years or seventy. Or with seven months left in gestation...
And there are times when music just matches one's soul, one's feeling, one's mood. This piece brings me to tears every time I hear it. So lovely, so haunting, so perfect. As the Koreans would say - refreshingly sad.
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