Nice variations on themes round with the no 7 theme / Schumann etudes and young Chopin. But I half-expected a question on the 33 Diabelli variations. ;) Otto Boehler and Orpheus rounds were also nice.
Beethoven, Brahms, Austrian composers. Why not? The Anschluss is over since 1945, guys😂 Not even knowing the overture of William Tell ("Carmen" 😂). Amateurs...
A nice set of Joseph Joachim questions, I'd have gotten all of them. Joachim's own 2nd violin concerto isn't bad, just a bit too long in the beginning and so difficult that about 3 people in the world attempt play it.
How come Jeremy Paxman can’t even pronounce Don Quixote and Don Juan properly?! That is lamentable! I expect Bamber Gascoigne would have pronounced those names correctly.
True, I didn't know some of the pieces (like Brahms' trios in the last compilation or Pelleas here) but I knew enough about the composers' styles to guess some of them.
That's because they are too young to have watched figure skating in the 90s, or they would have never forgotten this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uiearh4LWis.html 😀
I don't know it either, I prefer symphonies. What bothered me the most was the fact that Mozart was considered "an Austrian composer" while Salzburg was not part of Austria at the time.
I am german, and i had to google most of the composers/choreographs, because of his pronunciation... I just could not understand it. but when I found the one he was most probably talking about I was not that bad.
I love how the entire team was suggesting the obviously correct Schubert and he still went with the German composer Beethoven whose style is so entirely different.
@@quaby1194 No, he was not. Salzburg was not a part of Austria at any time during Mozart's lifetime. He remained a citizen of the archbishopric of Salzburg his entire life as well of a citizen of the Holy Roman Empire. Austria, in Mozart's lifetime, was an archduchy (later turned empire, but still part of the Holy Roman Empire) that consisted of large parts of current Austria. It was only understood and seen as an actual country, nationality and something that was not Germany after World War II - coincidentally. Since Mozart was not alive to see Salzburg join Austria, let alone Austria become an actual country, it makes no sense at all to call him Austrian, does it? That would be like saying someone born in current South Tyrol in 1850 was Italian. No, they were not! Neither was someone born in East Karelia in 1721 Russian. Russia only took over Finland and Karelia in 1809, East Karelia being the part that is still Russian to this day. I think the point is clear: Borders change as politics change, wars happen etc. We cannot put the 19th century concept of nationality on an 18th century composer, especially not drawing the borders like they are today. (Since English-speakers are not as aware of nor as interested in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, the willingness to correct this common mistake is not as present in the UK and US as it is in Germany and Austria. The reason why we view this as so important is that Mozart's nationality has actually been politicised and abused by both Nazi Germany and post-war Austria, one claiming him as German, the other as Austrian. Both countries wanted to own the composer for themselves. Truthfully, only the cities of Salzburg and Vienna can claim such a thing as having been Mozart's home.)
Okay, guessing Strauss instead of Humperdinck is excusable given the similar time frame. But Strauss does not IN THE SLIGHTEST sound like Beethoven. At the very least say Wagner - unlike Beethoven, he was famous for him s operas at least.
If you can recognise a piece by Meyerbeer, you've probably written a thesis on 19th century opera. Seriously, I've studied musicology for years and I'm stomped by many of these questions. Especially French opera kills me every time.
@@PMA65537 No, not easy at all. Who knows this stuff? Again, I'm a musicologist. I know pieces by Meyerbeer by name and know about his life and achievements. But recognising his pieces is something for specific fans.
