Peter Schickele - "Unbegun" Symphony (1980) (sheet music)
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- Peter Schickele - "Unbegun" Symphony (1980) (sheet music)
Jorge Mester conducting The Royal PDQ Bach Festival Orchestra
0:00 (Introduction by Peter Schickele)
2:10 III. Minuet
5:37 IV. Andante - Allegro Molto
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The piece is a quodlibet made up of quotations from many other pieces, often in counterpoint with one another. Schickele lists this piece under his own name, rather than P. D. Q. Bach, since it quotes from works which did not exist during P. D. Q. Bach's lifetime.
It is in two movements, numbered 3 and 4. Schickele claims his old friends called it the "Pathetic" Symphony, but then he got a new set of friends who called it the "Unbegun" Symphony.
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Recording: www.amazon.com/Hysteric-Retur...
After playing the entire Tchaikovsky 6th, hearing themes from ALL FOUR MOVEMENTS all together was the most hilarious thing I’ve heard today
RIP, professor Peter Schickele.
His great work will never be forgotten.
8:11 ah yes, M O D U L A T I O N
Meine Frau und ich saw Schickele years ago......the couple directly in front of us were apparently unaware of the Schickele tradition...the performance began by PS coming over from one Tier Box, via dangling rope, and in just 20 seconds they stormed out leaving a very nice gap for our viewing advantage. We all howled in delight and enjoyed everything.
8:13 may be the greatest moment in the history of music.
The whole work is genius, but fusing the 1812 Overture with You are My Sunshine always cracks me up.
And then the Dies Irae! 🤣
Not to mention that little bit at the very end...
The murmur of wonder when people realize it scans the whole phrase
Peter Schickele is a genuine American treasure..
3rd movement:
Mozart: "Jupiter" Symphony, 3rd movement
Du, Du Liegst Mir im Herzen
Vicente Fernández: Cielito Lindo
Mozart: Symphony No. 39, 3rd movement
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, 1st movement
Percy Montrose: Oh my Darling Clementine
Johann Strauss, Jr.: Waltz from "Die Fledermaus"
Bizet: Danse Boheme from Carmen
Brahms: Symphony No. 4, 4th movement
Johann Strauss, Jr.: Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz
Camille Saint-Saëns, "The Swan" from "Carnival of the Animals"
Beethoven: "Eroica" Symphony, 1st movement
Beethoven: "Pastoral" Symphony, 5th movement
Charles B. Ward : The Band Played On
4th movement:
Brahms: Symphony No. 2, 1st movement
Stephen Foster: "Beautiful Dreamer"
Henry J. Sayers: Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Stephen Foster: "The Camptown Races"
Leroy Anderson: The Rakes of Mallow
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, 4th movement
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture
Mozart: "Jupiter" Symphony, 4th movement
Sullivan: Onward, Christian Soldiers
Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture
Handel: Joy To The World
Schubert: "The Great" Symphony, 1st movement
Mozart: "Jupiter" Symphony, 1st movement
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Charles A. Zimmerman: Anchors Aweigh
Tchaikovsky: "Pathétique" Symphony, all four movements
Jimmy Davis and Charles Mitchell: You Are My Sunshine
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 1, 4th movement
Schubert: " The Great" Symphony, 4th movement
Wagner: Lohengrin
Dies Irae
Tchaikovsky: "Marche Slav"
Dvořák: "New World" Symphony, 4th movement
Tchaikovsky: "God Save the Tsar" from 1812 Overture
Kreutzer: Etude No. 2
Gilbert & Sullivan: Miyasama from Mikado
taken from wikipdq.fandom.com/wiki/%22Unbegun%22_Symphony
@@AndewMole What they list as Rakes of Mallow I learned as a song called The Galway Piper. Every day, something new, etc.
This was one of the first pieces I ever heard from the P.D.Q. Bach canon, and I think it is the best of them all. I thought all the themes were interpolated very cleverly, and there was a sense of humor throughout. I cannot resist chuckling when I hear The Danube Waltz and “The Band Played On.”
As with all things, the first is always the best.
Some great P. D. Q. Bach here. I have to say I love Peter Schickele's parodies: following his approach to Quodlibet from the 1960s, he again takes totally unrelated classical and popular pieces and makes it his own. He juxtaposes one or more contrasting melodies in counterpoint in ways that are both clever and often deliberately amusing. His musical humour knows no bounds!
7:53 The mashup of Mozart's 41st Symphony with Anchors Aweigh is simply priceless!
The madlad really mashed up "You Are My Sunshine" with the 1812 Overture.
and dies irae
Merci for taking us on a musical roller coaster, with a brief stop off at the penny arcade.
Around the 9:40 mark, when the Dies Irae starts, put me in mind of the finale of Mahler´s 6th.
Thank you ever so much!
RIP PDQ
8:10 My favorite part in the whole piece
I must confess I think of this piece when I hear Berio's Sinfonia, 3rd movement. 😂
3:26 Strauss: Die Fledermaus Overture on strings; that common tune on trumpet
4:08 Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz on strings; Saint-Saëns: The Swan on winds
6:45 Rossini: Guilliame Tell Overture on strings
6:58 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 on cellos
7:25 Joy to the World on trumpet
8:48 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 on strings
9:20 Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture on horns
Beethoven symphony no 8 on string
There are so many little quotes all over the piece, but I think this one is also worth mentioning: 7:40 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique in the flute
Where is Wagner’s Lohengrin
2:48 Beethoven 8
4:08 also Beethoven 3 on Cello
Where did you find the manuscript?
My copy is from Theodore Presser; a Schickele pastiche score was a running birthday gift from my dad. I have 5 or 6 of them😊
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Geniale ahaha
Oh you my Brahms @ 5:50 ca....
Qué mezcolanza!
1980? This recording is from 1966
Profoundly unfunny.
Yeah, the audience sure thought so