Exactly. And musicians should be able to differentiate being annoyed by the amount of times they've had to play them, from their musical quality. Too bad people can only see black and white.
imagine you’re planning your wedding and your fiancé picks Canon in D somewhere in your ceremony and you don’t know about it til you walk down the aisle or see them walk down the aisle😭 Canon in Divorce
It's only 8 notes. For the entire piece! 8 notes! The conductor hands that piece to us and we put the music away and just stare at them pleading for them to say no, that it was just a cruel joke! 8 notes!
Honestly i play trombone and was in a brass quartet and i was the "cellist' of the group and i can attest. It is the cannon in pts-D I you stop mentally thinking if you arent careful and during a practice once zoned so hard i kept playing even after the song ended xP
I was hired for a wedding once, the bride asked if we could play this song on a loop throughout the entire wedding. So we said sure. She pulls it up on her phone and it's our worst nightmare Canon in D... So we ask "How long's the wedding?" She answer, nonchalantly. "Oh it ends at eight!" It was 6 in the morning. "Oh in the morning?" "No! At night!" And that is the story on how I played Canon in D for fourteen hours and only three breaks... P.S Yes, I was the cellist...
@@kachiko6874 It does get severely annoying though, which is a shame since i can’t stand to listen to good pieces anymore because i hear it too many times.
A quick story Last year, I went in a music store with a friend. As we were looking at the instruments, we heard somoene starting to play "Für Elise" in the room next to where we were. After the first few notes, an employee near us said "oh please not again". I'll never forget the look in his eyes...
Imagine this: You are watching a movie, known only for its first 30 minutes. The movie is 2 hours long. Now, imagine every time you go to a friends house and you watch a movie with them, they only pay the first 30 mins, but you know there is more. Now, imagine this as a piano piece. That is Für Elise
Clair de Lune was my gateway to classical music! It's the first song on my spotify Classical Music playlist that I started in middle school! Now I have over 42 hours of music on that playlist!
There are also two clairs de lune! There is a Faure one which I learned how to sing (I probably can't sing it anymore, my range dropped from sort of soprano to alto/contralto) and then there is the Debussy one, which is the more famous instrumental piece
Samantha Collins wait if you are dan then why are you called Samantha Edit: i just realized that samantha was replying to dan by saying their name therefore this comment is dumb
10. Flight of the Bumblebee 9. Symphony No. 5 8. Hungarian Dance No. 5 7. Czardas 6. Cello Suite No. 1 - Prelude 5. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 4. Fur Elise 3. The Blue Danube Waltz 2. Four Seasons 1. Canon in D
Lol as a beginner violist who bought a piano recently, just to show that my parents didnt wasted money, I had to learn Fur Elise in 2 days in front of my whole family.
OH MY FUCKING GOD SO TRUE I WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR THIS VERY PIECE IN THE COMMENTS LIKE PEOPLE SAY "OH! I CAN PLAY PIANO :DDDD" FUCKING PLAYS RIVER FLOWS IN YOU EVERY. TIME. forgive me for piano abuse but I just want to rip the keys off and shove them in my ears this is how much I hate the piece or actually better yet no piano abuse chop the persons hands off and shove those in my ears instead ;;;
Violin: Bumblebee Piano: Für Elise Cello: Canon Organ: Toccata Flute: The fellowship of the ring Guitar: Stairway to heaven E-Bass: Under pressure Drums: We will rock you
In Myanmar, fur elise is tune for a pancke street food franchise, called Cart- Bane - Mont. it means Myanmar Sweet Pancke. the franchise entrepreneur is genius. Like everyone is shouting "panckes for sale, so sweet", he hit you with a classic 🤣🤣🤣. Whenever I hear it, I always remember the happy memory of my mom buying us those delicious 🤤 pan cakes.
As a European, this is our fucking anthem as a Continent... too much... Though as I live in the UK and moreso am involved in rememberance marches, Marching band music to me is overplayed lol
I remember learning Fur Elise when I was a kid and then moving onto more fun and beautiful pieces. Then I went to highschool where there was an untuned piano in the front of the auditorium and whenever we would have a study hall, some kid would go up to it and play Fur Elise and everyone would act like it was the second coming of Christ or something. Funniest part was that they skipped over the parts that are more difficult later on in the song than just the beginning bit.
I was so surprised to hear that this is such a common wedding music. Like do people just generally have a string quartet at their wedding? I'd expect to hear organ music at a wedding, like the Mendelssohn wedding march immediately comes to mind (even though that piece might be more of a cliché due to movies and such)
Yeah in my area the Mendelssohn is way more popular, I think. Hadn't even heard of Canon as a wedding piece before getting into twoset. But I guess it's big in the UK and US then
In India, you will get it as a reverse gear tune from cars. And i still have no idea what instrument they used, cause it sounds like a horse being strangled.
My family is Taiwanese, I visited Taiwan for 2 full weeks and experienced for myself every night, EVERY NIGHT, either für elise or the maiden's prayer, and the way the garbage trucks played it is so unpleasantly grating omg lol! Love Taiwan
I think there is a reason these pieces are played so often. They are just nice to listen to and easy to convey to a wide audience. There's one more piece you forgot, Toccata & Fugue in d - minor by J.S. Bach BWV 656
I first heard Canon in D probably 20 years ago, listening to the radio in the car, it was playing and I just sat in the parking lot listening to it. I was mesmerized...then slowly over time, I kept hearing it more and more, so when it came to #1 on your list I thought "Pachelebel's Canon" and sure enough.
Aliyah Ahahahahahha Imagine you need to play it EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. and then after you play it all people will say "OMG YOU VERY GOOD". I play La Campanella the first part and people like "ok alright"
@@aliyahahahahahahha4380 It became mainstream and suddenly if you play it people will think that you have been playing the piano for like a billion years. It's like playing Canon in D with a cello
As an opera singer, my addition to this list is the queen of the night aria from the magic flute. Its hilarious when commercials use it as a calming song but its actually a lady telling her daughter to murder her own father 😂
Sarastro is not the father. The father died and gave all his magic to a good wizard who was Sarastro. So the queen gives the knife to Pamina (her daughter) to kill Sarastro
(yes i know it's been 2.5 years but) I'd love to see a follow-up to this video where they go over this list again but present specific alternatives to each piece for people trying to learn more about classical music (like myself) "if you enjoy the Eine Kleine listen to this" type thing
The number of people who use moonlight sonata as a comparison for difficulty of ANY piano piece in a youtube video is ridiculous. I guarantee no one in the comment sections of those piano videos can play it, but it's all the rage.
My list would be: Beethoven's Ode to Joy, Ravel's Bolero, Orff's Carmina Burana, Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra, Puccini's Nessun Dorma, Rossini's March of the Swiss Soldiers (William Tell Ouverture), Saint-Saëns' The Swan Offenbach's Can Can Bach's Air on G-String Schubert's Ave Maria
@@islanderblondi5210 Oh, come on... Those pieces have been played and sung to death in movies, tv-shows, documentaries, talent shows, youtube-videos, circuses, street performances, rock concerts etc etc..
@@leung9401 maybe I'm not familiar enough with that, to be honest I don't watch movies or youtube videos or anything very often. But the only thing I've heard a lot is Oh Fortuna, not the rest of Carmina Burana. But with the other pieces on your list I totally agree 😅
@@islanderblondi5210 Oh, now I see what you mean.. Yes, agreed. Only "oh, fortuna" is played to death, but not the other pieces from "carmina burana"... yes, totally agreed. I thought you meant the rest of the pieces on my list.
In China or Taiwan they have no problem using classical music for such basic things as trashtruck sounds, mall music or else. It's horribly effictive in destroying those pieces forever
In brazil it was the gas truck... remember hearing everyday after school. But it was one of my grandmother favorite song so i played a lot ,i still like this song
@@daniarceo8456 4 years to play Elise??? it's my first year and I am already learning it, I told my teacher I couldnt make it but she said it was easy and now I am learning it sjsjskskjss
In my country (Turkey), most of the schools use Für Elise as the school bell. I can't count how many times I had to listen to that intro in my school life and probably this is one of the reasons why I hated playing the original piece during my piano lectures.
It's actually such a pretty piece to listen to. But so hopelessly overplayed that I can't stand it anymore. My poor violin teacher when I said I wanted to learn it. Biggest eyeroll I've ever seen or will ever see. And: „can't we do gigue instead?“
It's a lot like Singing a dang same 'Raag' what we call it as, you can say a 'Song' actually. That same one always to impress, wanna kill myself hearing it
I’ve learned three of the Four Seasons, Spring, Autumn, and Winter. I’m just starting Summer, and I actually like the first movement better than the third movement. But, my favourite season is probably Autumn and its third movement.
It should be called 'I am too lazy to have an attention span long enough to spend time actually listening to classical music so I'll pretend to be edgy by listening to this playlist and tell all the musicians it's just not my personal preference when in actuality it's just my chronic ignorance' playlist.
Lol i've been a violinist for 13 years and I listen to it regularly... It's like a guilty pleasure. Probably because of the nostalgia from playing all those pieces as a kid. Great for getting your friends into classical music tho.
@@sebastian-benedictflore Personally I believe that if you can't read all of shakespeare's works backwards from memory you are lazy and have a short attention span.
@@accomplisheddiplomat4091 Personally, I believe that if you can't listen to a piece that lasts 10 minutes, you're lazy and have a short attention span.
I played that song for a wedding two weeks ago 🙄 The bride came up to me like “omg, thank you so much! I almost cried” and I was just thinking to myself... I cry on the inside... but not from joy 🙄🙄😂 (flautist)
I thought Mozart's Requiem in D would be on your list. It seems like I've heard bits of it played in many movies & shows. I love Requiem so much, I used to listen to it over & over, I had all the Latin memorized at one point, but I'm rusty now. It's one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard.
I agree with Canon. My husband and I have played it at SO MANY WEDDINGS! As a wind player I also hate Pomp and Circumstance. It’s right in the range on the clarinet where it’s more commonly out of tune in comparison to the rest of the instrument, so by the time you’ve played it a couple of dozen times during a graduation ceremony, your mouth is so sore from the minor adjustments. Ugh!
For Pianists: Für Elise Mozart sonata in c Clair de Lune (I'm sorry Debussy D:) FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE Bach Prelude c major Moonlight sonata 3rd Movement Fantasie Impromptu It's not a classical piece but RIVER FLOWS IN YOU, everywhere "Can you play river flows in you?" 🤠🤠
I can't 100% agree because u did not include the following - The nutcracker - tchaikovsky - Moonlight sonata - beethoven - Toccata and fugue in d minor - bach - Lullaby(famous cradle music) - brahms - Twinkle² little star - mozart - Can can - offenbach
Flight of the Bumblebee If you can play it quickly you can play it slowly If you can overplay it you can underplay it If you can't play the notes you can't play the notes
I've been really wanting to perform Die Erlkonig at some point. Hopefully in college. I also wish that Danse Macabre was played more often. Same idea with the recognizable melody but it is less infamous for being stereotyped and has complexity that would get a lot more people interested in classical music
I love Danse Macabre and I have a relatively short attention span when it comes to classical music recordings, so that’s definitely a testament to its quality and… epicness, I guess?
You have no idea how confused I was when one evening I was walking around Taipei, suddenly heard electronic version of Fur Elise and 5 seconds later garbage truck appeared. It was galaxy brain moment for me
I remember at least half of these pieces from German ads for dish soap or laundry detergent. I shouldn’t have flying dishes in my head when hearing these
there was this one guy who went to my cultural school (he turned 18 and moved to amsterdam) who played the tuba. like 4-5 years ago he played czardas. on a tuba. and it was awesome, and also my first exposure to the piece. because of this i always think it sounds kind of wonky when i hear it played on the violin. its SO much more impressive on the tuba because of how much more difficult it is to play fast. i really miss that guy
My mom buy a clock that ring fur Elise every 12 o'clock... I keep awoke at midnight for 2 week so I had to hide those clock n buy new one without music..
I'm a organist. Me: Playing a some song on organ X: Can you play this scary music? Me: Toccata and Fugue d-moll? X: no no no, these scary music Me: *Playing a Toccata and Fugue d-moll* X: Yeees! That's it!
They would always want us to play a song or piece, but really doesn't bother to remember what the name is. If someone would see musicians play, 90% of the time the musicians, would be asked to play a song or piece that the person asked them to.
Water purifier’s , elevator, musical toys mainly made in china , sound of vehicles while reversing or using indicator etc 😂 as i kid I really didn’t knew its name but really loved the melody
3 years later, and thank you for solving the mystery. I am (was) a musician but was not classically trained and it bugged me so much that I knew the music, but did not know why I knew it. This is it!!!
What do I recommend? Liszt-La Campanella Liszt-Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 Beethoven-Moonlight Sonata Paganini/Liszt-Etude no.6 Chopin-Winter Wind Chopin-Fantasie-Impromptu Beethoven-Spring Sonata Stravinsky-Rite of Spring Bach-Prelude in C major Bach-Violin Sonata no.1 in G minor Paganini-Violin Concerto no.2 in B minor “La Campanella” Paganini-Caprice no.1 Paganini-Caprice no.24 Paganini-Caprice no.5 Paganini-Nel cor piú non mi sento
I remember at a family meeting my aunt saw the piano her brother had and said "please play Für Elise!" and he was awkwardly laughing like "hah... thanks but I'm fine, I don't want to play". I tried really hard to not laugh.
10) flight of the bumblebee 9) flight of the bumblebee 8) flight of the bumblebee 7) flight of the bumblebee 6) flight of the bumblebee 5) flight of the bumblebee 4) flight of the bumblebee 3) flight of the bumblebee 2) flight of the bumblebee 1) flight of the bumblebee
As a dancer, this list is so accurate. I was literally in an hour long contemporary piece for four seasons, half of it was just us pretending to eat apples 😀
Not classical, but my favorite is the college guys who play “I Cant Help Falling in Love With You” on guitar to impress ladies... and know nothing else. at all.
IN1029 honestly it’s not hard, it just gets quiet boring after awhile (i play guitar and if it wasnt for how the song makes me feel, i probably wouldnt keep playing it)
10: Flight Of The Bumblebee 9: Beethoven Symphony No. 5 8: Hungarian Dance No. 5 7: Czardas 6: Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude 5: Eine Kleine Nacht Musik 4: Fur Elise 3: The Blue Danube Waltz 2: The Four Seasons: Summer: Third Movement 1: Canon In D
Some additional over-used works: Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet - March/Dance of the Knights" is great stuff, used in commercials and soundtracks to be bombastic. Saint-Saëns: "Carnival of the Animals - Aquarium". Sometimes used as a template for very similar works, especially in sound tracks. Great eerie and unsettling music that is also extremely beautiful, suggestive of magic happening in the background. Bach: Toccata from "Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor". Used to be used a scary background in horror movies. Now used as farcial scary background in take-offs on horror movies. Rossini: "William Tell Overture". When you want to make fun of someone in a hurry. Mozart: Piano Concerto #21: Andante - "Elvira Madigan" - For slo-mo sound tracks, when you want to emphasize some poignant moment in the past. Also, to instill a great feeling of ennui and boredom. Anything by John Williams, since they all sound the same as each other and as Holst: "The Planets". This deserves special mention, because Williams' film scores had already been heard many times before they were debuted in public. Bach-Gounod: "Ave Maria" Schubert: "Ave Maria". I can never remember which one is for weddings and which one is for funerals. Puccini: "O Mio Babbino Caro". I hold Simon Cowell personally responsible for ruining this beautiful aria. Grieg: "Peer Gynt - Morning Mood". Anyone growing up with Warner Brothers cartoons will recognize this tune. Also used in mockumentaries, I believe. That's 10. There's more, obviously, but 10 is enough.
