Here's something you might be interested in.
Here is a bit of classical trivia to add some balance to the festive season.
If you don't already know who wrote The Funeral March, you'll never guess.
Beethoven? No.
Brahms? No.
Liszt? No
Mahler, Schumann, Mendelssohn? No.
Andrew Lloyd Webber? --No.
Would you believe Chopin, that most lyrical of composers? The tender yet passionate Chopin wrote The Funeral March.
It shows up in the third movement of his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor.
The piece has been used at several famous funerals. Perhaps most famously at Chopin's own.
Chopin's piano version has been orchestrated twice. Once by Elgar and once by the arrangement-crazed Leopold Stokowski.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEX1dYyvmig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fg9hdAiQMQ
Here is a bit of classical trivia to add some balance to the festive season.
If you don't already know who wrote The Funeral March, you'll never guess.
Beethoven? No.
Brahms? No.
Liszt? No
Mahler, Schumann, Mendelssohn? No.
Andrew Lloyd Webber? --No.
Would you believe Chopin, that most lyrical of composers? The tender yet passionate Chopin wrote The Funeral March.
It shows up in the third movement of his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor.
The piece has been used at several famous funerals. Perhaps most famously at Chopin's own.
Chopin's piano version has been orchestrated twice. Once by Elgar and once by the arrangement-crazed Leopold Stokowski.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEX1dYyvmig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fg9hdAiQMQ