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[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

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[@linden2391]

another one of these? please? I need to redeem myself

[@einsam_aber_frei]

I remembered a friend has made a quiz to guess the piece by only one note, and they all started in C. 😂

[@blackandwhiterag1117]

Too easy using a piano reduction. Use a full score excerpt instead.

[@oritdrimer4354]

Seeing "Scriabin piano concerto no. 3" truly makes me wish that scriabin should've lived longer.

[@bozzigmupp510]

Sad lip infection :(

[@alphakrab5022]

He would've never written another piano concerto though

[@oritdrimer4354]

@@alphakrab5022 but he should have

[@asklepio7787]

@@oritdrimer4354I mean Prometheus has a pretty big reliance on the piano part :) Ofc I understand it's a symphony

[@slenderman4788]

@@oritdrimer4354 Nah, much like Chopin he was at home in small formats with his focus on miniatures. Sonatas and Piano Concertos were never fitting of those while also being too restrictive of what he wanted to do.

[@vanek_9397]

As a pianist I would love to watch the exact same video but about famous piano pieces😊

[@MrRemi1802]

Absolutely. The title is wrong, these are mainly symphonic pieces, and not only from the classical era.

[@Armissimo]

I'm with you. I don't listen to symphonic pieces much so when i watched this video my brain was utterly shocked.

[@cloudymccloud00]

@@MrRemi1802He actually said "from all centuries" (!). I was dreading Baroque / Renaissance -- but didn't hear any! All very much my kind of thing (and pretty well the very opening of movements): so I got lucky (13/15).

[@Elijah24553]

From pianists everywhere, I thank you. Lol!

[@zombieperson3695]

@@MrRemi1802where does it say "Classical Era"?

[@chrismoule7242]

15/15 - but then I am [or rather was] an orchestral violinist.

[@ignaciomoreno9655]

😂

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

15/15 - but then I am a (classical) music critic

[@Shtikface]

8/15 - but I only listen to mostly piano music cause I play piano.

[@dburt909]

Same, currently a Violist lols

[@maviszhang]

15/15 - but then i was an orchestral cellist

[@A_Random_Pianist]

7/15 not particularly easy for a pianist… 😅 Now I know I should go and listen to more orchestral pieces and operas

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Yes please😂

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

I once spoke to Bang Bang, he didn't know any of Brahms' symphonies. True story. Pianists are the tenors of the instrument players.

[@johnnyp6202]

Same for me. I think I would do much better with just piano. I got 7 but one was a 80% guess...but the other 8 I had zero idea

[@DressedForDrowning]

Only if you like these. It's nothing wrong with loving piano music.

[@thegoodgeneral]

#5, “this definitely sounds like something Tchaikovsky would write.” “Is it Tchaikovsky 6?” “Hahaha yes definitely.” “Or Tchaikovsky 5?” “ *FUCK* “

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

😂

[@joemonk747]

Yeah that was definitely a “you sonofabitch” moment

[@Karl-cj2sn]

0/15 😂 but I’m only now, at 40 getting exposed to classical music. I’m slowly starting to appreciate it 😊

[@amarug]

1/15 lol. thought i would know at least three ... the sad thing is, I am 100% sure STILL know more about classical than about 99% of the people

[@JamesTheBell1]

I'm 100% sure you're right.

[@plexq]

Yeah - I grew up steeped in classical music and was an orchestral violinist in my youth - only got about 5. Too much opera, never enjoyed opera much. Classical music is about more than Opera. Not one piece from the baroque, and only Stravinsky really in 20th C. A bunch of overly dramatic romantics - nice if you like that sort of thing - I don't particularly. Let's have a bit of Sibelius, or a bit of Bach. Britten, or Walton. What about the entire choral repertoire other than Opera! A single piano concerto, what about violin concertos? Cello Concertos? Quartets! Give me Shostakovich 8th string quartet!

[@alexringb]

The same goes to me! 5/15 Too much stuff that I don't listen, too little stuff that I do listen...

[@davio_dr1]

6/15 11/15 with the bonus points from the Tristan chord Also your pronounciation of the French stuff is crazy good

[@asym52]

Y'all know that "the Tristan chord" is lifted straight out of Berlioz "Romeo and Juliet," right? It's handled differently, of course, but the chord itself? Berlioz.

[@dodiad]

Not to mention his pronunciation of German. 😊

[@davio_dr1]

@@asym52 interesting

[@davio_dr1]

@@dodiad well he IS German

[@dodiad]

@@davio_dr1 Uh, that was the joke. Maybe you missed the smiley-face emoji.

[@Chris-fm5pl]

Berlioz "Except for the 3rd movement..."?? Thats a fantastic movement!

[@Eric-ch9yu]

"La scéne au champ" is great and so different. The disappearance of the oboe at the end..

[@robertagregory7177]

Would not be the same without it.

[@deVriesOP125]

In my opinion it’s too long winded and bland

[@owengette8089]

@@deVriesOP125I think it’s helpful to think of it in relation to the story-the lonely man in the countryside dreaming of his lover.

[@jgesselberty]

13/15. The selection from Turandot sounded like Uranus, The Magician, from Holsts, The Planets.

[@sochalant8056]

I thought the same lol

[@heliogabagool7847]

I noticed that too.

[@malcolmfraser2066]

Same score and same impression here 😅

[@yondertz]

Yes!

[@coolhandphilip]

My thoughts too.

[@Adeodatus100]

13/15, but I wouldn't have done it without the multiple choice options, and even then I had a couple of lucky guesses.

[@Digibeatle09]

More or less the same (i.e. I had some lucky guesses) - I was kicking myself about the Tchaikovsky ones - must get back to listening to that composer's symphonies !

[@grantbmilburn]

Same for me with 12/15.

[@heirofspinoza813]

10/15, did much better than I thought I would.

[@henryopitz3254]

11/15, more than expected. Great video Carl!

[@bryanfields5563]

Same here - but 2 were lucky guesses

[@NisansaDdS]

9/15 that is way more than I expected as a person with no actual formal Western Classical Music education.

[@sdinc1]

10/15. Not to bad for a person who doesn't play an instrument.

[@ferenc_l]

9/15! I need to study up on opera and Dvorak symphonies haha. Haven't listened to them since 2021. Also, I appreciate how high quality your production is for a small channel! Good luck in your future pursuits

[@JusticeForViolas]

You got Dvorak 9 right? Right?

[@sehtek5078]

We need part 2!

[@evansercombe]

13/15!!! I did *not* expect to make it that far. Actually, the only two I missed were realted to the Symphonie Fantastique... I guess I need to brush up on my Berlioz 🧐

[@EverTruu]

Love this video, it really encourages me to listen to more classical symphony

[@davie504remix4]

I recognized 6 pieces, and guessed 5 more pieces with the help of response options 😎 Cool video

[@perlman7376]

12/15. I'm not an opera fan and so I missed Hansel & Gretel. I should have gotten Bruckner's 7th. I adore Bruckner's 4th, 8th and 9th and now I'll listen to his 7th. Classical music has enriched my life in so many ways. Also, it's so nice to see you have company.

[@gargoyleg4368]

15/15, but still a good challenge. I'm pianist and sometimes opera accompanist. Also worked in a music library. It's a good thing I played Hansel and Gretel or I might have missed that. You have a new subscriber.

[@hojowarf6488]

Proud of my 11/15! Sorry to say I am a bit lacking in my knowledge of Italian opera and solo piano works. I also got tripped up trying to remember which Tchaik symphony I was hearing.

[@johnshellythomas7695]

Me too (on the lack of opera knowledge).

[@RicardoM-ze4bj]

Do one with more early baroque renaissance and even medieval music great video either way

[@danielazuma]

Thanks for this video! A lot of fun. 11/15. I always thought I was pretty well educated in classical music, but now I know where the holes in my knowledge are.

[@violjohn]

Never heard “Hansel und Gretel”. I’d better change that. Also didn’t know the Bruckner 7th but guessed right. Happy with 12/15 and maybe some bonus for the Tristan chord!

[@late8641]

Hansel and Gretel was the only one I hadn't heard, so calling it one of the greatest operas of all time is probably a bit of a stretch.

[@zdenekpazourek1086]

⁠@@late8641haha you not knowing a piece does not mean its not great buddy😀

[@lucapop3571]

14/15 caught me in number 15 with Salomé, although I have to say I guessed the last ones because I knew very well the other options 😅 Thank you! Very straightforward and approachable content :)

[@rich8037]

15/15. All those years building up, and listening to, a record collection were apparently not wasted 🙂

[@lutzdalkowski]

14 of 15 points ... yeah! Thank you for this music-quiz!

[@ftumschk]

Interestingly, the use of bitonality at the opening of part two of "Le Sacre du Printemps" also turns up in "Turandot", notably during the openings to Acts I and III. I wonder if Puccini was influenced by Stravinsky?

[@deonventer5615]

Excellent idea! More, please

[@Purpleninja7707]

Thank you for pointing out how amazing Dvorak's 9th is!!! No joke I have a CD in my car that plays his 8th and 9th Symphonies on repeat! Truly masterpieces!

[@yundichen8332]

is it the Kubelik recording?

[@simonballard6413]

Try the 5th, 6th and 7th as well!

[@TheHorseValse]

11/15 with 4 lucky picks where I never heard of the piece, but sounded like a particular composer.

[@brickie9816]

I got maybe like 2 without guessing lol I love classical music but I struggle to move on from a piece and find something new to listen. This video will probably be useful for that

[@arijitmoitra1018]

Got 8. I'm not trained in Classical music but it has been a part of my life since the beginning of my college days till now in my mid thirties.

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

That's not bad at all

[@haitaelpastor976]

Same score here. But I'm almost 50 and been listening to classical like... forever.

[@scherzomazeppa726]

63 here. Bwwn itto it from college too. got 9...one guess.

[@msecujski]

Me too, 8/15 without lucky guesses. Great quiz!

[@nicholaswheeler8038]

11/15. I teach middle & high school orchestra and have played in many local and professional symphonies. Primary instrument is viola, but I also play bass and piano. Great trivia.

[@lilaccilla]

my retired brother who has played in many symphonies and plays his Oboe , and now also English Horn in a symphony in Boise , Idaho could most likely guess every one of your questions correctly ! I only got 3 right 😅 oh and he LOVES Mahler ❤❤❤❤❤

[@henrykaspar3634]

12/15. I missed out on Humperdinck, Pucchini and Strauss/Salome - I'm not much of an opera type (at least not when it stretches beyond Mozart operas). You made me curious about Humperdinck though. Btw, I personally would not characterize Schubert as 'soft and gentle', more melancholic and almost painfully beautiful. Different temperament from Beethoven, but in terms of quality the same level. Very nice selection of pieces.

[@rockyAQ04]

7/15. I haven’t listened to many operas but this has given me some good ones to start with.

[@robertwayne3561]

15/15, and I'm not a musician, but I have to admit Turandot was a guess, and if there were other Bruckner symphonies to choose from I might have missed that one as well.

[@dosterix6034]

1:38 Lol of the symphonies I've listened to I never wanted to skip any of the movements and I did listen to quite a few of them

[@RD3D-1]

I share your sentiment. He says, "There's not one movement you'd like to skip [in the Dvorak 9] like in pretty much every other symphony." Seriously? This guy is way too critical.

[@davidtoledo7828]

All 15. Carl, that was a lot of fun. Classical name that tune !

[@Franky_M]

13/15, only two mistakes! I do get the bonus points for the Tristan chord though, haha. I'm not a big opera fan so I sadly choked on Hansel & Gretel, which I actually knew, which I guess made up for getting lucky on Turandot (which I didn't). My other lapse came from Bruckner, a composer I've never really studied or even carefully listened to. Thanks for the quiz!

[@ralphoperaphile]

I am emphatically no expert but I write reviews of recordings for a reasonably well-known classical music website and I have been listening for over fifty years, so I got them all right. However, had it not been for the multiple choice prompts, while I would always have recognised the composer, when it was a question of pin-pointing which symphony it was, I might have faltered.

[@ivanbeshkov1718]

Got all except the last, though I guessed correctly Richard Strauss. Composers can be famous yet some of their best hardly anyone notices, for instance Bach's aria "Liebster Jesu mein Verlangen" probably my all time favorite melody.

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

14/15. Only missed the Hansel und Gretel, but I've only heard it once many years back. Made some educated guesses on a couple of others.

[@chusty93]

7/15. I'm not a professional musician, but I come form a musical family (my brother, mother and aunt are classical pianists), so classical music is part of our family life.

[@nd7915]

10/15 but I definitely needed the four answers to choose. It made me realize I have now clue of Mahler, Bruckner and Operas whatsoever. I should educate myself.

[@sauskar3308]

8/15 😎, didnt know any, just guessed from either italian or german writing on the music, and then guessed from names and the feeling of the music. i only listened to a lot of classical when i was a baby and dont remember it, i love rock

[@coolhandphilip]

13/15 with 3 out of 5 guesses correct. Some of these are really on the edge of the repertoire.

[@ignaciomoreno9655]

7/15. Mainly to the multiple choices question and a few guesses.

[@PL1960]

Got 12/15. Much much better than I thought. I am not a musician, just one who loves classical music

[@tom.pickering]

could you do a baroque music edition?

[@alkishadjinicolaou5831]

Excellent video!

[@stannieholt8766]

14/15 - but several of the symphonies were lucky guesses. I would have done a lot worse if the test were fill in the blank. Usually I can guess a composer and/or school even if I don’t know the exact work. I suppose it’s the product of a mis-spent youth, sulking at home by the stereo rather than out thrashing to Dead Kennedys like the other ‘80s teens. I also took ballet as a kid and played in the school band.

[@dizwell]

15/15, but I had to guess _La Mer_ so need to brush up on my Debussy! Good quiz. I wish pub quizzes were more like this than "which hip hop artist broke a shoelace in 2011..."!😅

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Thank you🙌🏻

[@murdo_mck]

11/15 with 3 guesses. Thanks for reminding me I must return to listening to orchestral music.

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

You're welcome😂

[@carlowelker926]

Your classical pieces challenge me. I had a lot of fun.

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Thanks💪🏻

[@MichaelGilman489]

11/15, although I needed the multple choice options for 1 of them. I don't do operas, although I did know one of the opera questions. Either I have too much or not enough spare time.

[@lucasa4301]

music from all centuries he says... sticks from 1788-1922 cutting out 300 years of classical music ;)

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

😂 Sorry

[@rloomis3]

12/15, plus the bonus. I will admit I had to take educated guesses on a few; I could have predicted which those would be, and which I would probably miss. I don't really agree with your take on the _Tristan_ chord. The analysis I've heard which I think works better is a French sixth with an appoggiatura. (You're right about the passage ending on a V.)

[@mikeleghorn6092]

The Tristan excerpt is a trick question - it’s also in Die Meistersinger.

[@JoalTaylor]

14/15 Thought I might get all of them, but the last one stumped me. Double bassist.

[@rawvision6701]

I got them all immediately without needing the multiple choice. I missed the Schubert song because I'm not an expert at his leider although Schubert is one of my favorite composers.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

Too easy for me. I would have gotten all of them even without the multiple choice. So 15/15. But I'm a freak anyway. I recognize pieces by an individual voice when I hear our orchestra warming up before a performance and someone is going through their part for something else they are currently practicing. I'll have to give you props though for not simply picking opening bars all the time. Makes it more difficult. Still not enough for me. ;) (By the way: Be mindful of your terms. It's not the Tristan Overture. Wagner stopped writing Overtures after Tannhäuser. It's a Prelude. And was that the Zubin Mehta recording of Turandot? Sure sounded familiar to me.)

[@chrismoule7242]

Agreed.

[@yesman2407]

...bro thinks he's the main character

[@rawvision6701]

Your overture comment is interesting. Wagner wrote Die Meistersinger after Tannhäuser and you can say that it has an overture. The score is marked Vorspiel which according to the dictionary means prelude or overture. Everyone knows that the opening 10-minute orchestral passage is just as much an overture as anything that Rossini wrote to start his operas. When it appears in concert, there's a 50% chance that it'll be called an overture or a prelude. On the other hand, Tristan is listed in the score as Einleitung which means introduction. You're right that Tristan does not have an overture, but Die Meistersinger which was written after Tannhäuser does have one.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@rawvision6701 I do not know why the dictionary thinks Vorspiel can be translated as Overture. It can't. The distiction is very clear.

[@arthurmorgan7557]

10/15 right plus 5 bonus points for the Tristan chord. 15 points

[@olli-pekkaaaltonen1373]

15/15. Mostly familiar pieces, but could not have done more than 10 without the choises... In most cases it was easy to rule out three. This challenge shows that 40 years of casual listening will make you familiar with the standard repertoire without actually knowing too much about the pieces or the composers...

[@acactus2190]

11/15, 16/15 with Tristan chord. I suck at guessing the operas!

[@thejackattack]

7/15 I have no clue how I did it. I'm bamboozled. I'm perplexed. (Shoutout to Engelbert, though. Evening Prayer was my orchestra's warmup piece for our orchestra competition lol)

[@sergei-prokofiev]

I have 10 not as great as I hoped, but I was so happy when I heard bruckner 7, the only real real real trancedabtal piece on this list!!

[@PianistTanooki]

11/15! Basically, anything opera-related is my blind spot, so I genuinely did not know of the four that I didn't get.

[@taemin8039]

8/15.... and i call myself a classical music fan. Tbh im not really into opera so i lost a lot of points there

[@d.j.j.g]

I got 13 out of 15----a couple of holes in my listening I'll have to fill. Thank you! That was fun!

[@JeffreyLByrd]

Only missed two. I didn’t place the Brahms symphony quick enough, which is not surprising since I don’t really care for Brahms, and I didn’t get the Schubert song. As a retired bassoonist, I don’t know the vocal repertoire very well. I don’t know Bruckner very well, but got that one by process of elimination.

[@charlietian4023]

I got all the symphonic orchestral ones, but not the opera or lieder ones since i don't really play those much or research those much 12/15 but got lucky on turandot but unlucky with Hansel and gretel. Didn't need the choices for the ones i got though

[@hansjc]

12/15 with the bonus points from the Tristan chord.

[@michaelcorkery3853]

10/15 - I need to brush up on Bruckner - any advice on where to start?

[@koryos4273]

Simply the symfonies

[@temarito1]

9/15 Identified 3 by knowing them and the other 6 by guessing the composer style. Maybe as a pianist I should listen to more orchestra

[@aurelienmartel2766]

12/15 But quite easy for a French Horn player ! (and I even had Rachmaninov Piano concerto ... but I thought only Rachmaninov could write that kind on stuff). As a french person I would say that your french accent is kinda weird but 10/10 for the effort, that still the best I've heard for a non french speaker ! :) (and better than 95% english accent for french native, including myself)

[@PeterLagendijk-sh5qj]

Hi, I missed only 2 of them. I was conductor of a symphonic band in Luxembourg, long ago...

[@dwooptopia6137]

11/15 but some (Winterreise, Rach 2) were only because of the multiple choice and I only got the Bruckner because of the key, still more than I thought though

[@Elijah24553]

The moment I realized that this wasn’t piano centered, I knew I was screwed. 🥲 I only got 6! I got most of the piano stuff right, though! If it was mainly piano focused, I would have killed it. Lol!

[@Gretchaninov]

I think I got about 9. This is a pretty wide range of music. Many of these pieces I've only heard once or twice, so I can forgive myself for not instantly recognising them...

[@LCrommelin]

It's Schubert's Winterreise, without 'Die'. Schubert left out 'Die' to avoid having the exact same title of Wilhelm Müller's poem cycle, which is Die Winterreise

[@soundtreks]

12/15. The 20th century stuff was easy as that’s what I primarily listen to.

[@pearltheplug]

I got 8 out of 15, can't wait for the next one!!

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Thanks💪🏻and congratulations

[@gerhardprasent3358]

Wagner's Tristan Chord is certainly NOT VI to V in a-minor!!! If you take the release note of g# to a it is an augmented 3/4 chord, but the function is subdominant !!!

[@gthefolf9932]

I got 9. Kinda 9 1/2 bc I recognized one of them but didn’t guess it in time. Tuba players tend to forget about the first 3 movements of Symphonie fantastique

[@Snargloffin]

I only knew it was Tristan and Isolde because of that chord thanks for the points 😂 9 or 14 with the Tristan chord

[@Alice-lv4bb]

12/15... So many lucky guesses, but I think it's okay :)

[@olivergroning6421]

7/15 (12 with the bonus ;-) but the multiple choice was definitively needed.

[@johnchessant3012]

12/15 though I only would've gotten 9/15 if I didn't have the answer choices. (plus 5 bonus points of course)

[@lyricsronen]

Salome! What a masterpiece. Strauss had outdone himself with that one

[@mehmetunal9731]

3 or max 4 i think i am new any sugestion or do you think i should listen more new(for me ofc) stuff?

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Here's a list of pieces I would recommend. Ravel Daphnis et Chloe second suite Mahler symphony 3 6 7 an d9 Beethoven 5 6 9 Berlioz symphony fantastique The nutcracker Tchaikovsky Brukner symphony 4 7 8 Tchakovsky 4 5 6 Brahms symphony all 4 Schumann symphony 3 Schubert symphony unfinished and number 8 in " the große" in c major Opera La boheme Hansel and gretel (this one is a great beginner opera, probably the easiest to get into, and probably the greatest one ever written, it's amazing, truly, can highly recommend it) Salome Strauss Mozart Magic flute Wagner Tristan and Lohengrin Ouvertures

[@mountainbiker8904]

100%, BABYYYYY!

[@OrqinusOrca]

RITE OF SPRING MENTIONED!!!! I think I got like maybe a 6/15 but as soon as I heard the first tritone chord of Mystic Circles I nearly jumped out of my seat in excitement lmao

[@fdrkuhlau]

6/15, I got Mozart 40, Brahms 4, Tristan and Isolde, Rite of Spring, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 2, and La Mer.

[@Aperson-rr9gb]

14/15!!! The only one I got wrong is the last one because I don't really know Richard Strauss operas.

[@freezafrezado9472]

10/15, only knew a few of them, some I knew the composer and the rest was just lucky guess