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Symphony No. 1 by Brahms.
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Gail Starr thanks - I even had a little blurb written about why I picked this one but then deleted it because it sounded too grandiose and conflicted with my shy and self-effacing North German personality...
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Alexander Weymann
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Alexander Weymann On the inside I bet you are actually a combination of an Italian 5 star chef and an indie rocker,
. Post the description anyway! 
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Gail Starr if that's my true inner self, it would be quite the mélange to be discovered and revealed !
O.K, fine, here's why I thought that Brahms' Op. 68 is the piece that best depicts me: complex, ambitious and expansive in character, but with a simple and tender core; brooding and struggling at the beginning of the journey, but ultimately at peace and deeply joyful. 
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Alexander Weymann OMG! This is simply the BEST description of human character I've ever read. I see a worthy protagonist for your next novel. Or symphony!
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"Beau Soir" for violin and piano by Debussy. I played this a couple of years ago on a program with a violinist.
The music flows along to the delicate rhythm and phrasing of the french poem it was based on by Paul Bourget, "Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses, Et qu'un tiède frisson court sur les champs de blés..."
It doesn't have the same feel in English. At sunset, à breeze rustles through the field of wheat.
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My choice would be Robert Schumann's "Warum?", from the Phantasiestücke op. 12. Fauré's Barcarolle n. 1 contributes with some nice commentary, but the first one is very accurate LUL
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For me it is Beethoven‘s ,Pathetique‘.
Fast change of emotions- some tragic part goes over in an attacking part. And than this nice second movement. And the third movement- I love it so much - also ends with a bang. And underlying a bit of a beautiful sadness. I always come back to this piece.
