Music that makes you want to cry

Changing the music style completely, any classical music fan will know the story behind the final movement of Tchaikovsky symphony no 6.
It was written to represent his impending death and his deep depression is obvious.
Whereas most symphonies finish with a lavish flourish, this one just fades out as he feels the life slowly draining out of his body. He died shortly after writing it.
So brilliantly written.
 
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None make me weep.

The Marseillaise in Casablanca though...
Django Reinhardt Festival Swing Boxing day 1940. It's a live performance as many were during the war, from the Hot Club in Paris.

Obviously the Germans had taken over most of France, Django obviously gypsy and it turns out much later that Charles Delaunay boss of the Hot Club and announcer on this track is French resistance.
 

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