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Biography of Rezső Seress

Rezső Seress was a Hungarian pianist and composer who gained worldwide fame for writing the saddest song on earth, known as "Gloomy Sunday" or the "Hungarian Suicide Song".

Born into a Jewish family in Budapest, which was then part of Austria-Hungary, he grew up in poverty and started working at a young age, but never achieved financial success. Despite never attending a music school, Seress taught himself to play the piano with one hand.

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It was his musical talent, greatly influenced by a life that lacked joy, that brought the composer to the attention of the world.

In 1933, in Paris, France, Seress returned to his apartment after an argument with his beloved.

Within a few hours, he composed the melody for "Gloomy Sunday" and the lyrics were later written by Hungarian journalist and poet László Jávor. This melancholic ballad about death and the possib