A thousand thanks to all of you who contributed to this conversation. Here is the "top ten" list, the consensus choices of music that made you weep tears of joy, of sadness, or of both at the same time--and what a list it is!

Mahler: Symphony No, 2 “Resurrection”
Ravel: Mother Goose (ballet—“The Fairy Garden”)
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
Dvořák: Rusalka (Song to the Moon)
Puccini: La Bohème (Final Scene)
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Final Trio)
Schubert: String Quintet in C major
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Copland: Appalachian Spring