Black Sunday has caused hundreds of deaths over the past 13 years.

"Gloomy Sunday" (English: Gloomy Sunday, Hungarian: Szomorú Vasárnap), also translated as "Black Sunday", is a song composed in 1933 by the Hungarian self-taught composer Rezs? Seress (1899-1968). It is said that "Melancholy Sunday" was written by Reiji Shereish in a state of extreme grief after he broke up with his girlfriend. Hundreds of people took their own lives after listening to the song because of its breathtaking desperation. The song was dubbed the "Hungarian suicide song" and was even banned by internationally renowned radio stations such as the BBC. However, there are no substantial legal documents, journals, or publications to corroborate this suicide figure.
This piece of music can be said to be a candid dialogue between the author and the God of Death through music from the depths of his soul. The difference in understanding of this piece of music may cause some misunderstandings.
Gloomy Sunday
Melancholy Sunday
Chinese name: Gloomy Sunday
Foreign name: Gloomy Sunday, Szomorú Vasárnap
Composer: Léger Séresh
Arranger: Léger Séresh
Alias: Black Sunday
Introduction
"Gloomy Sunday" (English: Gloomy Sunday, Hungarian: Szomorú Vasárnap, also translated as "Black Sunday", is a song composed in 1933 by the Hungarian self-taught composer Rezs? Seress (1899-1968). It is said that "Melancholy Sunday" was written by Reiji Shereish in a state of extreme grief after he broke up with his girlfriend. Hundreds of people took their own lives after listening to the song because of its breathtaking desperation. The song was dubbed the "Hungarian suicide song" and was even banned by internationally renowned radio stations such as the BBC. However, there are no substantial legal documents, journals, or publications to corroborate this suicide figure.
"Black Sunday" is a very solemn and melancholic music. His tunes are very poignant and long, and interpret the human struggle and helplessness in the face of death with ups and downs in high tones. The lyrics are very realistic, and there are memorial scenes that people usually see. This kind of scene is very easy to imagine through simple writing. In particular, the painful disappointment and anxious and passionate love in the lyrics often make lovelorn people have a strong fantasy of being willing to die in exchange for their love.
Another complex is that this music has infected many people who have had the same experience as the author and committed suicide. The story behind this music is undoubtedly very shocking to those who have never seen death and are afraid of death. Because this music directly talks about human death.
Music Background
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In 1933 (some say 1932), the Hungarian Rulans Charles Seress (1899-1968) wrote this piece of music in Paris on a rainy Sunday two weeks after falling out of love. He is a short, mean-looking, somewhat humorous Jew. It is said that he worked as a pianist in a restaurant called Akácfa (meaning Little Pipe) in Budapest, but he could only play with his right hand and it was not convenient for him to play with his left hand. He became famous for "Black Sunday". He wanted to restore the relationship with his girlfriend Loina, but her girlfriend committed suicide, leaving only a piece of paper with "Szomorú vasárnap" (Black Sunday) written on it. Of course, after he became famous, many famous musicians at the time went to see him. Later, a beautiful woman, Helen, divorced her wealthy military officer husband and married him. He committed suicide by jumping off a building in Budapest in 1968, probably due to excessive psychological pressure. After all, his music killed so many people. Black Sunday ranks among the three most banned songs.
Note: 1. What everyone can hear is not the original version. The original version seems to be a symphony, and it is said that it can still kill people invisible. However, most of the stories about this song are fabricated, and everyone can just laugh them off.
2. Many people on the Internet say that the original version is in a music conservatory in Ohio, USA. The fact is open to question. It is said that the author of this song has a manuscript that he requested to be placed in his grave.
3. Someone has analyzed this song and it is said that the scale of this music exceeds the limit of human tolerance (disharmonious scale), so so many people cannot stand it (actually, it mainly resonates spiritually).
4. It is said that someone in China also owns a short section of this piece of music, but it has never been played.
Suicide
In the same year, "Melancholy Sunday" spread from Hungary and became popular in Europe and the United States. It is said that this music has caused hundreds of people to commit suicide since then.
In Berlin, a salesman hanged himself after copying the score of "Gloomy Sunday." In Rome, a newsboy riding a bicycle heard a beggar humming the tune of "Gloomy Sunday" on the street. He immediately stopped the car, gave all the money he had to the beggar, and then walked to a nearby river and drowned himself. In Belgium, a Hungarian young man was listening to a band playing the orchestral music of "Melancholy Sunday" in a bar. After the performance, he suddenly screamed hysterically, took out his pistol and shot himself. In the Danube River, many people threw themselves into the river holding the sheet music or lyrics of "Melancholy Sunday", the youngest of whom was only 14 years old. A female typist in New York borrowed a "Gloomy Sunday" record to listen to at home out of curiosity. She was found dead of gas poisoning in her residence the next day. She wrote in her suicide note: "I can't stand the melody of this song, and I have no choice but to bid farewell to this world now. "Gloomy Sunday" is my funeral song." After this music became famous, Sheresh's girlfriend also committed suicide by taking poison... This is a song that is said to cause suicide after listening to it. "Gloomy" caused more than 100 people to commit suicide after listening to it. Sunday) was called the "Devil's Love Letter" at the time. At least 100 people committed suicide after listening to it, so it was banned for 13 years. Even psychoanalysts and psychologists cannot give a satisfactory explanation for the composer's own motivation for composing the music. It is said that the final complete version is kept locked in a safe at a music university in Ohio, USA. Let's take a look at the following two stories...
The first person recorded to have committed suicide was a British officer. He was resting quietly at home and inadvertently began to listen to the turntable delivered by the postman. The first piece of music was "Black Sunday" by Lawrence Charles. After he listened to this piece of music, his soul was extremely stimulated and his mood could no longer calm down. After a while, he took out the pistol at home and ended his life. When the gunshot rang out, the song "Black Sunday" was also playing. This was the only clue to his death. After thorough investigation and speculation, the police came to a conclusion: He did commit suicide, but this "Black Sunday" was an indirect killer! And warned people not to listen to this music ------- because the police almost committed suicide when listening to this music! Then this incident caused a sensation throughout Europe. People felt incredible, frightened and curious. Many people who thought they had good psychological quality were curious to collect it everywhere and experience it for themselves, and went on adventures. One of the middle-aged American men shot himself after listening to the song "Black Sunday" several times. In his last words, he wrote: "Please use this song as the music for my funeral." Then one after another, similar suicide news came one after another, from Europe to the Americas to Asia, and the whole world was panicked. At that time, when a very famous celebrity in Europe attended a music concert, he insisted on a musician present to play the song "Black Sunday" on the piano. The pianist refused at first, but due to the pressure and request of the curious audience, he had no choice but to play. After the performance, the pianist vowed to never touch the piano again! And the celebrity who made the request has remained anonymous since then and disappeared. One day at that time, in a bar in Belgium, people were sipping wine and listening to music.When the band had just finished playing the orchestral piece "Black Sunday" written by French composer Roulans Charles, they heard a hysterical shouting: "I really can't stand it anymore!" I saw a Hungarian young man tilted his neck and drank all the wine in the glass, took out a pistol and pulled the trigger at his temple, and fell into a pool of blood with a "bang". A female police officer investigated the case, but despite all her efforts, she could not find out why the young man committed suicide. Finally, she took a chance and bought a record of "Black Sunday" that the band played that day, thinking that maybe she could find some clues to solve the case. She played the record again and ended up committing suicide. People found her last words for the police chief on her desk: "Your Excellency, the case I accepted does not need to be investigated further. The murderer is the music "Black Sunday". When I listened to this music, I couldn't stand the stimulation of its sad melody, so I had to refuse this life." Coincidentally. When a cheerful and lively female typist in New York City was chatting with others, she heard how sad "Black Sunday" was, so she curiously borrowed a record of this music to listen to at home. She didn't go to work the next day and was found dead by suicide in her room with the "Black Sunday" record playing on the record player. She said in her suicide note: "I can't stand its melody. This piece is my funeral piece." In Washington, a newly famous pianist was invited to a salon party and played for the guests. During the dinner, a guest suddenly received a long-distance call that her mother had died in a car accident. Since that day happened to be Sunday, she asked the pianist to play "Black Sunday" for her mother to express her condolences. The pianist played the piece reluctantly. As soon as he finished playing, he suffered a heart attack due to excessive sadness and fell down on the piano and never got up again. In Milan, Italy, a musician was confused after hearing these anecdotes. He did not believe that "Black Sunday" would have such serious consequences, so he tried playing it on the piano in his living room, and died next to the piano. He wrote the following last words on the sheet music of "Black Sunday": "This music The melody is too cruel. This is not a song that humans can endure. Destroy it, otherwise more people will die due to stimulation." As more and more people commit suicide, radio stations in the United States, Britain, France, Spain and other countries held a special meeting to call on European and American countries to boycott "Black Sunday".
This murderous piece of music was finally destroyed, and the author confessed before his death because of guilt: "I didn't expect that this piece of music has brought so many disasters to mankind. Let God punish my soul in another world!"
After so many bizarre suicide cases, the "New York Times" published a news article with the title "Over a hundred Hungarians committed suicide under the influence of "Melancholy Sunday"". As soon as this news came out, it immediately triggered a heated debate. Many psychiatrists, psychologists, and even spiritualists in Europe and the United States have discussed the impact of this song, but they cannot give a complete explanation for it, nor can they prevent the continued occurrence of suicide cases.
What is even more legendary is that in 1968, the author of this song, Sheresh, finally ended his life by jumping off a building. It is said that the old man at that time felt extremely desperate because he complained that he could no longer create such an excellent work as "Melancholy Sunday". It is also possible that due to the death of his girlfriend and the death of many people due to "Black Sunday", he felt guilty and had a certain mental disorder, thus embarking on the road of suicide.
More than thirty singers in Europe and the United States have interpreted this song with their own voices. The more famous ones include Icelandic singer Björk and British singer Sarah Brightman. Hong Kong singer Priscilla Chan also adapted this song into a Cantonese version in 2003.
Other singers who have performed covers: Priscilla Chan, Yu Kewei, Wang Wanzhi.
Divided into: (piano version, English version, Chinese version)