Matching Classical Music to Famous Artwork 

Non classical musicians: I like this song Twoset: TRIGGERED!!!! It’s a piece not a song! Twoset looking at a masterpiece painting: I like this picture.

I think "The Scream" goes better with Brett's Lo-fi track.

I thought Mona Lisa is going to have Canon in D as a match because it was so overused

Fun fact: Girl with a Pearl Earring originally had a very dark green background that faded overtime so now it looks black :,) Also, much like with classical music, artworks are called “pieces.” Never call an artist’s piece a drawing or risk incurring their wrath! (I’m an art major I couldn’t help myself lol)

Twoset: What is something that’s just random and all over the place Me: Bretts Lofi

Starry night by Vincent Van Gogh Me, an intellectual: Twinkle twinkle little star~

"Dude, that's 10 Strads... for a painting... you can't even play on a painting." I WHEEZED.

"Starry Night" and "Claire de Lune" were meant for each other imo

"My name is Mona Lisa." "And I'm the girl with the pearl earring." "And this is our MASTERPIECE."

Two set *only capable of measuring in strads* “bro that’s like 10 strads”

Brett: "i want debussy" Me: 😳😳😳😳

boys got amazing senses combining 2 forms of art, but I think you still need some more knowledge in visual art studies. 1. Van Gogh was Dutch yes and he also lived, learned and got much inspired in France. 2. what you felt missing on Starry Night is sth on edge, because of Van Gogh's (rather unstable) mental status. 3. we have specific courses in museum studies called Risk Management, to protect the artworks. and you have no idea how detailed they are. 4. in Psycho the attacked woman was screaming, and the music mimicing the attack; in the Munch the subject was hearing the environment screaming around them. 5. the Dutch Mona Lisa, is also because the 2 paintings are similarly in small sizes. some works can be surprisingly large too. so that's why you should walk into museums and see them in real eyes. 6. synopsis, we call it iconography. 7. for the art of curating exhibitions, music is included, and not so rarely. many curators like to use multiple senses, visuals, sounds, smells, touches. 8. did your editors realize they picked mostly in categories of Renaissance and Contemporary? I believe you guys will have more fun with Neoclassicism or Baroque. Even for the contemporary/modern 20th century, you skipped the fun parts like Picasso and Martisse.

Brett: what if the priceless Starry Night painting just...rips? Me: *cringes in artist*

Eddy trying to have a serious conversation Brett: imagine her with a monobrow

Fun Fact: The person depicted in The Scream isn’t actually the one screaming. They’re depicting how they feel, as nature all around them is screaming either in their head or not. The painting was actually inspired by the real experiences of the artist, one of his quotes being, “Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature.”

"I want Debussy!!" - Brett Yang, 2020

When Eddy said that Van Gogh was French, I think a little piece of me died.

This is simultaeneously the most intellectual, the most innocent, the most nerdy, and the most heartwarming activity I've seen you guys do in a long time. There is a lot of pontification and obfuscation surrounding both "high art" and "classical music" and the creators behind these fields, but there is something far more sincere about this than any appreciative documentary I've ever seen for either and it's really charming. You're a pair of young men sitting down to match paintings and pieces of music, for no other purpose than fun, getting deeply involved and completely enjoying your game. You've got nothing to teach or to prove, you're just openly enjoying and studying art and sharing your enjoyment with us, which is a more honest and valuable payback to these artists than anything else I can think of. And the fact that you're a couple of young dudes in 2020 openly geeking out about old music and art and normalizing it so completely is priceless as well. Keep being yourselves!!

6:56 "the music kinda pulls you in, just like she's pulling you in; do you wanna know who I am?" matching the two actually elevated both. it gave the music context while giving the painting depth. the mysterious nature of the sound mixed with the alluring nature of the artwork. as a pianist who loves classical music, and a painter who adores renaissance work, I can't even express my love for this video😌music and fine arts come together so naturally, and each can take from the other. this concept of finding these "perfect" pairs is lovely

As a dancer, this video makes me happy beyond words. Pairing music and visual art just makes my heart fly ❤️

"why is this girl so complicated?" -eddy Story of my life

TwoSet theory: _Every soundless thing in the universe should be made lively with classical music_

Me expecting an intellectual comment about Mona Lisa from Brett: Brett: yeah I guess that was the look back in the days

This is like watching connoisseurs matching meats and cheeses with wines

The world: the Mona Lisa is so beautiful Brett: That’s creepy as f***

I love how you created a new unit of currency: the strad: equal to $10 mil

This was so much fun! I'm a painter and I have synesthesia, so I paint the colors I see when I listen to music. Loved seeing what you guys hear when you looked at art.

This may just be me, but I grew up watching Little Einstein's which most likely makes me one of Twoset's younger viewers HAHA BUT I grew up pairing classical pieces of art with classical pieces of music and watching this video (now as an art major) makes me extremely happy to see the two of them still being paired to this day. Seeing Twoset's opinions on how the art pieces makes them feel is so wonderful, I'm 100% geeking out right now.

Imagine an exhibit where they play music that suits with the painting, like they let people borrow mp3 players and they just let people listen to the music while looking at the paintings. When the music changes they have to move to the next painting, or if they move to another painting they have to change the music just to appreciate the art better. i would go there.

The "mind-blown" at 1:51 tho LMAO Nobody: Editor-san: *insert Davie's voice as a sound effect* Seems like Davie has officially become a meme now.

I wish they would do a sequel of this, it was so much fun to watch and very interesting

I can’t with Brett being shocked by 500 year old painting. Would love to see his reaction to ancient Egyptian art 😂

eddy: sees painting with waves eddy: this ones easy; debussy la mer me: pretends to be shocked

I like how lots of people claim to be the first, yet the actual first person doesn't. Respect to you, person I saw just now

JACKSON POLLUCK = STRAVINSKY. Especially Rite of Spring.

“cuz he’s french” me a dutch person: wE eXisT PlEaSe

Fun fact: Sadly, even though Van Goghs paintings add up to millions, he barely sold any paintings during his lifetime. He was depressed and people didn't like his work. He often just traded his paintings for some pencils or paint. It's really sad to know how much impact he had on the modern world of art, while not knowing it himself, thinking everyone disliked his work.

Let’s be real, "The Scream" should have been matched with Brett’s lofi beat

twoset: “a FUGUÉ!” Video: *plays the toccata part of the toccata&fugue

9:15 Black Angels goes better with The Scream artistically, but the Psycho theme makes The Scream more memey 😂

'The Scream' painting suits Brett's lo-fi am I not right.

Allow me to nerd out for a moment: Actually, many scientific studies have been done researching the impact music has on the buyer’s subconscious AND how music affects perception of food taste. For example...a wine shop played French music and noticed buyers were more likely to buy French wines, but when asked if the music affected their choices, they denied it. A famous wine tasting experience spent a lot of effort and money on interior decoration and music for each different room to make sure the surrounding visuals and audio matched the food being tasted in that room. At final auction, they made 2-3x more than their projected yield. British Airlines researched how to make their first class food experience better (bc your taste buds don’t work as well at high altitude) and served a multi course meal paired with specific music. And there was a separate study that found people in their study liked Taylor Swift (pop music) with Chinese food. A restaurant served a dish called “Sounds of the Sea” and gave customers a conch shell with an iPod and earbuds playing the sound of waves hitting the shore. Customers said it enhanced their perception of being at the beach. Obviously, each study was done with specific nationalities so I would expect if tests were duplicated results would be different but I digress... All this research bc well-to-do corporate and niche companies are interested in using sound to heighten the visual and eating experiences bc it yields more money. There’s so much we don’t understand about the power of sound and music in general bc there are so many factors-too many to test in order to see trends or satisfactory results. That’s why you don’t see much research related to other things...like pairing music with art. Not as much money to be made. Also, I have seen some museums pair music with paintings but it’s more likely to happen in a modern art museum than older art genres. I enjoyed TwoSets version, although I do think based off my extra background knowledge of art history I would have made some different choices to also include the painter’s intentions.

Phillip Glass is perfect for Pollock. His music is so abstract, even he doesn't know what he is playing.

4:50 personally I think Brett’s lo-fi fits ngl

the piece that should have played over The Scream was Brett's lofi

They are pairing music and art like people would pair wine lol.

Apparently Pollock created his art not with an image in mind, but just wanted to focus on the process - the end result was an afterthought. He created by dipping brushes in paint and splattering all over the canvas, just for the heck of it, for the feeling of movement and freedom he felt while he was splattering paint. So I say jazz fits his work. That or incomplete / discarded pieces by musicians, because I feel like the intention of Pollock's art is similar to the process of trying to create a musical piece, but I figure classical musicians would refine their complete compositions instead of leaving them to be all messy like Pollock's paintings.

The last painting “The Kiss” @12:29 would go well with Mahler’s 10th symphony (adagio). The loving gesture and the tenderness goes well with the symphony theme-the strings especially emphasized the glistening artwork which was painted with gold-while the eventual dissonant chord unveiled the hidden danger as hinted in the artwork that the woman was kneeling at the edge. Klimt is Mahler’s contemporary and close friend with Mahler’s wife. Both named Gustav, both Viennese, and both moving away from traditional style (Vienna Secession vs modernism in 20th century music).

I like that one bit at 1:51 when they said it was italian then davie504's voice can be heard lol the details!!! editor-san!! u da bomb!!! (づ￣ ³￣)づ

Does anyone else feel that the Jackson Pollock painting would go well with Brett's low-fi 😂

I think No. 5 would go really well with John Cage 4'33. There's something about the juxtaposition of the loud and chaotic painting and pure silence that allows for just being present. Imagine the soft footsteps and ambient sounds of a museum while looking at this painting.

I would probably choose Gnossienne 3 from Satie to pair up with "The Thinker". It just suits so nicely because the music sounds like someone is lost in their thoughts, or at least that's how I interpret it.

Here is an overview of the artworks and the matching pieces: Da Vinci - Mona Lisa + Bach - Prelude in C Major Van Gogh - Starry Night + Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit Munch - The Scream + Herrmann - Theme from Psycho Da Vinci - The Last Supper + Bach - Mass in B Minor Vermeer - Girl with a pearl Earring + Debussy - Reverie Rodin - The Thinker + Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Pollock - No. 5 + Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Botticelli - The Birth of Venus + Delibes - Flower Duet Dali - The Persistance of Memory + Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time Michelangelo - The Creation of Adam + Orff - Carmina Burana Hokusai - The Great Wave off Kanagawa + Debussy - La Mer (1. movement, circa minute 4:30) Klimt - The Kiss + Rachmaninoff - Vocalise Enjoy the masterpieces!

Personally I think Brett's lofi would fit quite well with "The Scream" Also have an AmAzInG day, you beautiful human being! No, but seriously, I hope something special happens for you today, especially with everything that's going on in the world right now.

Petition for 2set to make an entire series of this, I enjoyed it so fking much.

I love everything you chose. I think the Jackson Pollack would go well with Stravinsky Symphony in 3 movements.❤

Eddy: Calls Vincent van Gogh French Me a proud Dutch person: SaCrELiGiOuS

Eddy: "when i play it she smiles" No one: Literally no one: Brett: *escapes*

I really want a part 2! I loved the combinations that came uppp!

Please make more of these! I like it a lot!

Imagine if the pieces they suggested were actually played in the museums and galleries where these paintings are displayed.. I think the experience would be much more immersive and pleasant.. Nevermind, I just thought about all the voices of the other visitors over the music. That can't work

No one: Me a pianist: screaming in Chopin nocturnes for the starry night.

This was such a cool video!! I would totally watch a part two!

Please make more videos of this type! I absolutely loved it and hope to see more.

As a member of the Visual Arts Gang, this video made me exceedingly happy. A couple of notes: 1) I'm not sure if Van Gogh's painting style had a name for the stroke technique he used, but Van Gogh had a heavy use of _impasto_ which means to lay paint on very thick (when you see one of his pieces in person, it takes on a whole other dimension) and he worked primarily _alla prima_ or wet-on-wet where you paint quickly and don't allow the layers to dry in between. 2) Museums have a _lot_ of insurance on their paintings and other measures to keep them safe. There are times when art is stolen and never recovered (check out Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, it's fascinating) and there have been times when art was destroyed in a fire (such as an 18th century painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds when a fire broke out at the Huntington Museum in the 80's), but art conservation is an incredible thing, the lengths people will go to upkeep and fix old paintings, even ones that have holes punched in them or ripped to shreds (See Baumgartner Restoration here on RU-vid). Also, and this is just speculation on my part, but I would imagine that Hokusai's _The Great Wave_ was selected as the Cover Art for Debussy's _La Mer_ score, because in 19th Century Europe, since Japan had opened back up to the West, Japanese artifacts and woodblock prints were ALL the rage and influenced all sorts of artists, from Van Gogh to Cassatt and everybody in between (there's even an art term for this- _Japonisme_ ) Also, also, one of my favorite pieces of classical music is Mussorgsky's _Pictures at an Exhibition,_ which I think does an excellent job of invoking the feeling of walking around a gallery and taking in all the art. Really excellent.

Fun fact: the background of the Girl with the pearl was recently discovered to be green not black

this is actually really fun! please make more of this video!

my fav video so far. enjoy this sm.

When The Scream appeared what immediately played inside my head was Brett's lofi 😅

This channel has introduced a new currency to measure the financial value of anything: the "Strad"

Please do more video on this topic!! As an art history lover and a violin player, this is the content I enjoy the most!

I seriously loved this video you should do another one

Davie’s “mind blowing” at 1:51 I can’t

Twoset: "is there any music where just random stuff starts playing?" Free Jazz musicians: "Now is my time to shine!"

9:20 Not to be sacreligious but BUMBLEBEE

I love this video. Combining different form of arts - visual and music, and making the whole experience more realistic. Please moreeeeeee

as a student in an arts school where arts integration is being incorporated and influenced in almost every aspect of our studies, this was sooooo entertaining and legitimately very insightful and enjoyable to watch:) love from Singapore

10:39 TwoSet: Let's censor out the woman in the middle Woman on the left: Am I a joke to you?

Thank you for this guys...love you. Really inspirational

These are absolutely wonderful matches of art and music 😍❤️🎻🖼

Random dude : This painting's worth 100M dollars. Normal people : Wow , that's alot! Musician : Wow ,that's 10 Strads!

*Corresponding art - featured by TwosetViolin:* . da Vinci: Mona Lisa - Bach: Prelude in C Major van Gogh: Starry night - Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit (Ondine) Munch: The scream - Herrmann: Theme from Psycho da Vinci: The last supper - Bach: Mass in B Minor Vermeer: Girl with Pearl Earring - Debussy: Rêverie Rodin: The thinker - Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Pollock: No. 5 - Bartók: Music for strings, percussion and celesta Botticelli: The birth of the venus - Delibes: Flower duett (opera Lakmé) Dali: The perception of memory - Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps Michelangelo: The creation of Adam - Orff: Carmina burana Hokusai: The great wave off Kanagawa - Debussy: La mer Klimt: The kiss - Rachmaninoff: Vocalise

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE THE PART 2! THIS IS AmAzInG! ✨💖

As a noob to both art and classical music I enjoy this video, hope you can make more content like this.

Eddy: "Vincent van Gogh is french" My art history lover ass: **crying in the corner of my room**

Brett: thinking of every possible way to damage a painting Every artist ever: *trigerred*

i actually would like a series of videos like this, this is very enjoyable

Very interesting, guys I hope you will do a part two. It was beautiful to admire such stunning art with wonderful, matching music in the background. I think I will try and do this myself as well!

"You cant hear pictures" eddy & brett: *hold my violin*

twoset violin really be out here making everyone's day better

Please do this again. I loved it

I absolutely love this the music and the art feed each other and each one helps you feel the other i got goosebumps

"impressionism is not so surreal" me, a person who studies art theory: they're actually two different art movements-

twoset: the background is black me who draws: the background is actually blue

3:19 Brett: Whatever technique that is? Me: I M P A S T O My artist knowledge is actually useful for a Twoset video :'D

Brett : "holy moly" 😮 Davie's voice in the background : "MiNd BlOwiNg" I BURSTED OUT LAUGHING 🤣🤣🤣

I had nothing better to do on a Sunday evening so I had a go at matching each artwork to a piece of music: 1. *Mona Lisa - Franz Schubert 'Grazer Fantasie'* 2. *Starry Night - Debussy 'Arabesque no. 1'* 3. *The Scream - Berlioz 'Symphony Fantastique, Dream of a Witches Sabbath'.* I mean, it's hard to top the Psycho soundtrack to fit with this one, that's what came to my mind first as well. But this is a close second. 4. *The Last Supper - Allegri 'Miserere mei, Deus'* 5. *Girl with Pearl Earring - Hildegard von Bingen 'Ave generosa'* 6. *The Thinker - Mahler 'Symphony 10'.* Bit of backstory, he died before he could finish this (the 9th symphony curse strikes again), so it's hard to know how different it would have sounded had he finished it himself. I also played this piece in my uni orchestra and I couldn't make sense of it at first. The violin part opens with this strange melody with unpredictable intervals. But the more we played it I felt like I started to tune into it more...or maybe it was because I was just playing it more in tune. 5. *No. 5 - Steve Reich 'Music for 18 musicians'* 6. *The Birth of Venus - Puccini 'O Mio Babbino Caro'* 7. *The Persistence of Memory - John Adams 'Phrygian Gates'.* I feel the sense of time melting away when I listen to this. 8. *The Creation of Adam - Handel’s Messiah 'Hallelujah Chorus'* 9. *The Great Wave of Kanagawa - Mendelssohn's Overture 'The Hebrides'.* It gets more dramatic around 6 minutes in. 10. *The Kiss - Mascagni 'Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana'*

oooh I like this type of content! hoping you guys do another one of this! also to add on to Starry Night (since I love Van Gogh's works), I always somehow pictured it with Chopin's Nocturne Op.9 No.2

Love this video, it's amazing how a different piece of music can change the whole tone of a painting (e.g. the Venus)

“Ding the accent button.” - Eddy Chen, 2020