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The ‘Hungarian Suicide Song,’ Gloomy Sunday, and the Man Behind It, Rezső Seress
Gloomy Sunday, also known as The Hungarian Suicide Song, may be one of the most infamous pieces of music ever written.
According to the urban legend, listening to it would trigger suicides for many people.
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How much of it is true from that?
What is 100 per cent confirmed is that the British public broadcaster BBC banned it until 2002. We also know that contemporary press reported on the multiple cases of suicide allegedly linked to the song.
Also, in 2007, an entire scientific research paper was published in the peer-reviewed journal OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying.
Before we get to all that, let’s take a look at the life and career of the composer of the infamously eerie song, the man named Rezső Seress, who happened to have been born exactly 124 years ago, on 3 November 1899.
The Life of Rezső Seress
Seress grew up in Komárom, Austria-Hungary (today’s Komárno, Slovakia).
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