Happy Birthday but 13 classical composers are fighting over the last slice of cake

[@NicholasMaMusic]

Hi everyone, thank you for such positive feedback! Many people have been asking for the sheet music, so I have linked it below. Feel free to learn it and share videos of you playing this! I'd be very happy to see people try to play this haha. Sheet music pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1yCDZ4DmwAZ4xIwNui6jyWdJSG2RCt85o/view?usp=sharing

[@chxyike]

Thank you so much. Very helpful. Best regards from Germany.

[@pepparan]

Thank you very much!! 😍

[@kaishawna3753]

I would love to play this but my piano skills are really below this level of playing. Plus I'm deaf so I would probably make up stuff as I go if I attempted this. 😅

[@Ookkonen1]

Yeah, first I just need to learn how to play piano properly 😅

[@kayesguineapigs]

Oh my I teach piano and I am saying to myself this is never going to happen for me

[@gamerguy2259]

I love how everyone else is fighting for the cake and has actual responses to one another, while Beethoven keeps telling everyone to Shut Up.

[@Merrsharr]

It's because he's deaf. He feels excluded when people talk.

[@reallouiethecat3132]

You know your being annoying when even the dead guy is telling you to shut up

[@reallouiethecat3132]

Deaf*, though I guess he is dead now too

[@Hiraeth_Nightshade]

@@reallouiethecat3132 I was going to correct you by saying "you mean deaf", but you are not wrong though.

[@SSQMinky]

John Cage:

[@coyotix]

“beethoven ignores debussy because he’s deaf” is the greatest thing i’ve ever gotten out of an arrangement of happy birthday

[@snowleopard064]

4:00

[@rattersworld1016]

Same

[@xxEzraBxxx]

John Cage passes by

[@pasta_eeee]

this makes the first part even funnier because he's telling everyone to shut up and he has no idea what they're saying. Cause he's deaf. He can't hear them.

[@EbrothersUK]

Emotional damage

[@MusicalSoul47]

This feels like the score for a silent comedy that gets progressively more ridiculous and it’s perfect.

[@NikolayNikolaev-hn8zl]

Exactly. It needs proper actors and a cheap black/white camera!

[@meridellwriter]

Or some animators to do a Looney Tunes-style cartoon of it.

[@irenejohansen1370]

As a matter of fact, I think the Alkan bit IS a silent movie composer. And yes, it’s perfect. A perfect hoot.

[@hunterthepartygoer]

666 likes lmao

[@Leorastorm]

I want this to be animated in some way or form

[@dysntgr8]

This actually captured the style of each composer so well. But I absolutely died at the end with "John Cage passes by" and "John cage leaves"

[@AlbertWesker-uk3uv]

should've made that section last 4 minutes and 33 seconds

[@zandathepanda-vj7pt]

at least he was present lol@@AlbertWesker-uk3uv

[@dandy-lions5788]

not just style! direct references to their works are quoted in each section

[@ulrikesextro4187]

That really took the cake😅 (pun intended).

[@ethanlee8307]

As a washed up pianist who knows none of the historical context, I just appreciate the visual of these various men, most of them in wigs, and quite accomplished in their own rights, chasing each other around and bickering like schoolboys.

[@daymuntaku6590]

I like to imagine they're also fighting over the same piano

[@wyattstevens8574]

@@daymuntaku6590 Same

[@Acidfrog475]

@@daymuntaku6590 Except Bach

[@tetraploid5000]

I literally only know about mozart and i know almost nothing about piano-

[@nickd.s4029]

I'm a historian, and trust me, it's even funnier with the historical context. I lost it when Listz made his "bombastic entrance", that man would absolutely do that, he was SUCH a diva🤣

[@joebaker4116]

Thoroughly enjoyed the subtlety of Beethoven telling everyone to, "Shut up"

[@MeIsLeeLee]

"Could you shut-eth the fuck-eth up-eth" -Beethoven, probably

[@alvvn3918]

1.7k and no replies? let me change that

[@bluep3rz]

@@alvvn3918 1.8k and one reply? let me change that

[@alvvn3918]

@@bluep3rz changing life decisions bro

[@danghostman2814]

You invite a famous composer/pianist to your party, and try to get them to play, thinking it'll be fun - Most other pianists : Delighted to be the center of attention. Beethoven : "Ooo, Beethoven. Play the piano for us, Beethoven. Bull!@$%. Go away."

[@thetherrannative]

That chase scene was so ridiculously vivid. As soon as it started going _off_ I felt like I was watching a whole movie.

[@dk09sophie56]

fr

[@etps4444]

It literally all feels like a silent movie, and I love it. :D

[@williamgeorge3111]

Old rubberhose cartoon style, right?

[@etps4444]

@@williamgeorge3111 Exactly!! :)

[@reina_harhar7815]

Beethoven: * Screams at Liszt to shut up * Also Beethoven: * Ignores Debussy 'cause he's deaf *

[@maverbantog9536]

Hol up...

[@marshmellow8831]

a case of selective hearing

[@Qwerty-pk6bd]

@@marshmellow8831 lol

[@santiagoperez3024]

He grew increasingly deaf throughout the song

[@ThreeAndAQuarter2]

We love logic

[@switz_m3dic317]

"Beethoven ignores Debussy because he is deaf" Fucking gold

[@solidonseraindogthetenth1679]

Language!!!

[@ge_prav3236]

@@solidonseraindogthetenth1679 BBH, is that you?..

[@solidonseraindogthetenth1679]

@@ge_prav3236 Who is "BBH".

[@ciderofthearctic392]

​@@solidonseraindogthetenth1679 Badboyhalo lmao Context in case you don't watch MCYT: Christian Minecraft youtuber

[@solidonseraindogthetenth1679]

@@ciderofthearctic392 Oh.

[@miasoloproductions]

Very true to their personalities. Beethoven would tell everyone to shut up despite the fact that he can't hear anything.

[@graceearly3340]

“Prokofiev becomes so angry that he needs 3 staves to express this anger at the cake thief” made me laugh wayyyy too hard 😅

[@pamspray5254]

The outer ledger lines on the staves just made it that much better for me. 3 staves and some change were needed.

[@BlackMoonLilith-d5z]

Prokofiev catching Satie is the most hilarious part ever HAHAHA they are 2 of my ultimate favorite musicians 😂

[@Aleksandr_Skrjabin]

@@BlackMoonLilith-d5z And quite the opposite of each other

[@Crow.Author]

Same, my wife came in to ask why I was wheezing.

[@thatrobloxguy]

Me: Sees 3-stave music ||| Also me: WHAT IN THE ACTUAL-

[@rheiagreenland4714]

"13 classical composers fighting over the last slice of cake" Bach: "You could make a fugue out of this "

[@ChronicDoodles]

"beethoven ignores debussy because he is deaf" made me actually snort

[@angeliquecheung574]

Me too.

[@tumblingartist]

PFFT YES

[@TDGCmote]

beethoven really ends up beating face in this arragement

[@lisajohnson4744]

Right? 😂

[@user-H_m]

Yesaaaaaa

[@accordingtosophia]

“Prokofiev catches Satie, chooses violence” was exactly the sentence I needed to hear today as a music history nerd with an incredibly niche sense of humour; thank you

[@legendgames128]

With every low note in that section, you can practically hear the beating going on.

[@erickborling1302]

I can imagine Prokofiev, in disgust at Satie's stunted style, would tell Satie to use a black key every now and then.

[@liszt4692]

Can someone explain me the reference?

[@accordingtosophia]

@@liszt4692 There's not exactly a reference I'm aware of; the mental image is just funny.

[@chessematics]

@@liszt4692 should i make a Liszt of references? There are many

[@helioabc]

this feels like a video a music theory teacher would show in class

[@LongDeadArtist]

I swear this should've been it because I have a Happy Birthday variations analysis to do and this would be soooo much funner!

[@crysania]

100% yes. Music theory or music history for that matter. I no longer teach but I used to use things like PDQ Bach in my class. This totally would have been on my class playlist!

[@benthurtle4670]

But they constantly stop the video and discuss every shift in the music

[@julie-18]

@♡evie0oO♡ yes if they were actually all classical era composers 🤓 the only classical composers here are Mozart and Beethoven 💀I hate to be that person but yes

[@13Kr4zYAzN13]

This feels like a video a music theory teacher _SHOULD_ show in class!

[@flickcentergaming680]

The fact that Bach showed up and proceeded to write a fugue and ignore everyone else pleases me immensely.

[@StevenPJames-fl1un]

I like how this transitioned from your average party to Satie getting completely murdered

[@alexiswilliamsinc]

Satie had it coming.

[@That.french.harpist]

I CRIED

[@bearsgeography8330]

I need the *except satie* part

[@jahnavyhotusing3798]

Ahahahahahahagga

[@probium2832]

gigachad john cage

[@variedreasoning6416]

It was actually Tchaikovksy's birthday. Everybody forgot about it in the pursuit of cake, but fortunately Beethoven complimented his work on 1812 Overture before slamming the door on his way out during the chase sequence.

[@wyattstevens8574]

Good idea- Nick never said whose birthday it was!

[@louisegogel7973]

That needs to be included in anyones animation of this wonderful musical collage

[@jedimobslayer2480]

Well 1812 overture is a masterpiece after all

[@DeadlyDeadlyBeees]

Yes! Good addition

[@kammziez]

Overture is actually a banger tbh

[@egg_2705]

I can't imagine having the intelligence to not only come up with this as a concept, but to actually execute it so well I'm in tears.

[@andrewmaperson]

ikr

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

This reads like a classic Tom and Jerry sketch, and I'm here for it.

[@ShadySideUp]

YES oh my goodness

[@zamar2158]

Absolutely!!I said the same

[@procrastinatkivaz]

Same thoughts

[@tiredstudebt4446]

This video taught me more about differentiating composers than over 10 years worth of piano classes ever did

[@NicholasMaMusic]

Haha great to hear, glad you found this educational!

[@TheGuyCalledX]

I mean he just took themes from some of the composer's most popular pieces. I'm surprised after 10 years of lessons you couldn't recognize most of these pieces by name, let alone by composer.

[@signe0109]

@@TheGuyCalledX I've taken lessons for ten years and I definitely can not recognize most of these pieces. And I mostly play classical and neo-classical, but I've always just played for fun you know:) And I'm sure the comment wasn't that serious

[@muyodosel1658]

Chill yall my man is kidding.

[@johnduffy2777]

ok now integrate them

[@haihappen7485]

Never thought „Happy Birthday“ can be such an emotional rollercoaster

[@PrincessSketch13]

Beethoven telling everyone to shut up despite being deaf is a mood ♡♡ excellent work

[@coralreef2329]

:0 EXPOSED: BEETHOVEN WAS NEVER DEAF

[@genericname2747]

He can sense them talking

[@noonelooksatusers]

Yes.

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@coralreef2329 Deaf people can tell people to shut up

[@_bottled-water]

"That's a mood, Gabriella."

[@jonahbutterfield5792]

Jokes aside this is a good demonstration of how the same melody can sound completely different in so many different ways and how voicing can really carry the tone of a piece

[@ChristopherColombus-ł]

Go away

[@Nswizzle]

"He needs 3 staves to express this anger at the cake theif" is a very reasonable reaction to the monstrosity of the cake theif

[@nonsense618]

Liszt kicking the door open and scaring everyone *killed* me. This whole thing is absolute gold.

[@dragonswirl3579]

Prokofiev needing three staves to express his anger is the most accurate thing I've ever read

[@colossaltitan3546]

Followed by the 2 bars of silence with John cage walking by lmao

[@kbrake535]

6:35

[@katrinareads]

I officially majored in elementary education in college. I was not musical. Nonetheless, I found myself regularly kidnapped (although they used the term "friended") by music majors who escaped the confines of the practice rooms and then dared to discuss their devious plans (although they used the terms "studying" and "recital material") in my presence. As a result, I accidentally gained enough of a music education through these hours of captivity (or as they called it "mealtime") to understand about 90% of the humor in this.

[@leecha3444]

Similar to me, a food technology major that is surrounded by design majors 😂 i got to know (hear from the sidelines) most of their lecturers and their respective habits (on top of their grind every day & night)

[@oddguys178]

If only I had a dollar for each time beethoven told someone to shut up, I could finally afford classes

[@cremmy_crem621]

REAL

[@solidonseraindogthetenth1679]

Oh my goodness.😆🤣

[@peatato]

That would worth buying ten pianos

[@Ohnoourtableitsbrokennn]

@@peatatoyea probably (also love your profile pic,Heather be the best.)

[@204lemon]

This is pure genius!! I haven't laughed so much! The jokes are hilarious: Rachmaninoff offering honey, Liszt kicking the door and scaring everyone, Bach ignoring people to compose his fugue, Satie stealing the cake, Mendelssohn arriving confused from a wedding, best of all Schbert unleashing the Elkoing! Wow even John Cage passed by and said nothing about a bunch of composers fighting over cake! This deserves a million likes. Edit: oh my 1.3 K likes!! Thanks so much!!

[@NicholasMaMusic]

Thank you!

[@riv3r_mango705]

Especially the one about Prokofiev being so angry that he needed 3 staves

[@SnowRose-wn6gj]

And Beethoven, who was deaf, was the one to tell people to shut up.

[@tumblingartist]

It adds so much extra enjoyment to the video

[@motutalaputa]

And Mozart telling a poop joke, because of the love letters full of poop jokes that he would send to his cousin

[@kikicogger2284]

“Prokofiev becomes so angry that he needs 3 staves to express this anger at the cake thief” I died.

[@cesium1336]

It is incredible that we can not only get all these composers of different eras into one theoretical room, but we can make them fight like action figures through notes on sheet music and very creative rearrangement and editing of their pieces. I love this video, it's hysterical, great job on it!

[@IStoleAllYourCookies]

Imagine its your bday and these guys are one upping each other in playing a suitable song to celebrate your birthday.

[@sand__witch]

Each hopes you'll like his song best and give him the last slice of cake.

[@FireballFlareblitz734]

I would be both very honored and highly amused

[@heysupbehappy7153]

Well I found this video Nov 21st... on my bday

[@alinelopes484]

@@heysupbehappy7153 And me Nov 22nd,also today on my birthday hahaha.

[@donnaquixote7538]

Just imagine if they all actually were still around ❤

[@BlueCometDude]

The “Mozart interjecting with a poop joke” line is pretty accurate, the real Mozart used a lot of lowbrow humour during his music career

[@dnkakusei]

Wolfgang Amadeus "Lick Me In The Ass" Mozart

[@saftigesgulasch4407]

There's this whole song of Mozart called "leck mich im Arsch" which roughly translates to lick my ass

[@isleohagger5455]

This vid wasn't a very good representation of Mozart however.

[@BearBeatzu]

The poop joke thing made me think of Levi Ackerman, who often makes a lot of jokes about fecal matter.

[@rpcsa8]

@@isleohagger5455 Feels more like it was based on the Amadeus movie to be honest, and to be fair Mozart only got 3 lines of text and thsi is a shitpost. So it’s not like they could show the full 3 sides of his personality in that.

[@katerpillar68]

Not only did you manage to beautifully tell a story that was easy to understand from a non-music-nerd point of view but it was also extremely captivating to listen to the whole time. It was a perfect balance of happy birthday with each composer’s style where you could make each distinction clear.

[@NicholasMaMusic]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Inkymarkergg]

Guys. I‘m going to play this piece for my moms birthday in September 2024. starting: 22.10.2023 I will update y‘all every month October: 1hour 28 minutes I practiced the first 2 pages slowly. I can play the left hand November: I can play until bar 80 from memory. My progress is slow because I can only practice 3x a week for 3 hours each bc my mom is at work. She has a mini-job to pay for my piano lessons. I love you mom❤ October: I did 3 pages. I was very unproductive December: 15.12.23 I can play half of it now by memory. It‘s so close to christmas. I think my mom has been getting suspicious bc she‘s asking me what I’m practicing when she‘s gone 😂 Merry Christmas January: Happy new year! I now have 9months and 4 (actually 5 but last day doesn’t count) days left! May all your hopes and wishes come true I love you mom, you are very hardworking, you deserve it! ♥️ February: What the actual f. It’s already february omg time passes so quickly. And I’m almost finished with the piece. There are some places where I can’t play it so I might need to modify some places to my human hands a little. Thank you guys for the support in the comments! Th weather is so cold rm :(… Happy Chinese New Year for me fellow chinese. 新年快乐，红包拿来 March: It’s almost finished. Afterwards i’m going to add the musical elements like phrasing and dynamics. Thank you again for the support, it’s very tiring to learn this piece and modify some places without my mom finding out. I guess it’s right what they say: strict parents raise sneaky kids 🤭. I’M A GIRL SO PLEASE STOP CALLING ME A DUDE OR GUY 🎀💝👩🏻🐯yes, i’m a girl I thought the rachmaninoff part (around 111 i think) and then beethoven were really hard 😭 And then i see Prokofiev. Prokofiev, stop showing off and do something simpler and don’t make me spend 2 weeks on your part. Wtf is bar 292 i ain’t got 3 hands and 3 brains April: I’m quitting :(. Just kidding (was a very good april fools joke yesyes i know 😎) it’s april. I’m not gonna be here the whole summer break, i’m going back to china for the whole summer vacation. That means end of july, august and first 2 days of september, I can’t practice. Well i deserved a break for sure, so gonna practice even more. The ending is so hard! Thank you guys again so much for your support, I really needed it, some days i just didn’t have the motivation to practice, but I gotta keep going. As long as mom doesn’t give up, i can’t too. This means i can never give up Waa, my mom stayed ip until 4 am to help me finish my physics project. It was building a wooden box (it was huge) and threading in 12 violin strings. It was so time consuming, yet she finished it for me. When i was hammering, she just took it out of my hands and said i shouldn’t risk a hand injury 😭😭😭 i just love her so much. She might seem very strict and mean, but when you get to know her, she’s so sweet, nice and has such a big heart May: time is passing so fast! I finished the piece. I kind of lost a bit of motivation, 😬. I stopped practicing for 2 weeks bc I just didn’t really feel like it. BUT THE SHOW GOES ON!!! I’m going to memorize it until the end now June: it’s one week into june. The piece is officially finished at a lower speed. This months goal is to play it the speed as shown in the video. 18.june update Sooo my mom lost her job at the restaurant bc they had to shut down…ya we gotta see what we gonna do now. But she applied for a job at a finance department thingy. She wanted to quit at the restaurant either way but wasn’t sure if she’d get the job so it must have been a sign that it was time to quit the restaurant job. That also means I won’t be able to practice so much and exams are coming up; I have 3 this week. This month is so chaotic and stressful but we’ll manage! Guys 😭 I twisted my ankle in sports competition while running the 800 metres. Another girl tripped me 😭😭. Yeah, I’m in the hospital now sooo. I guess I can’t really practice. Luckily I didn’t break anything. Doctor said 4-6 weeks rest. But the good thing is my mom got the job. I’m so happy for her! This is going to be a new start for us. Aaaand I only have one exam on monday the first july! And then I only have 3 weeks of school and then summer holiday. And then moms birthday 😊 July: it’s already a week in july. I still have 3 weeks of school and then guess who’s spending the whole summer holidays in shanghai and returning 2 hours before school starts and immediately returns back to school life? Meeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! I’m so grateful for all of your help and support love you guys. Sending all of you a virtual hug 🤗. Anyways, I can play this piece now. Sometimes there is a little small spots where I still need to fish. I will ask my piano teacher to listen to this and see what I can improve. She is one of the best teachers from russia. So she’s very strict, but she raises good students :). July 31st is the day I’m leaving for china August: (I’m in china so I won’t be practicing that much. I don’t think there’s gonna be -a piano -that I can play -my mom NOT being there -and enough time for me to practice So I decided I’m going to play it to her at my friends house, bc she has a big piano. But there’s still enough time to plan ) September: :) hey guys, I’m back! I decided to prerecord myself and played it at the restaurant. She started crying! She was so proud of me for learning this. I just came back yesterday and I played it to her again today. She was so happy and it felt like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, like I had achieved something extraordinary. Happy birthday mom, I love you! This is going to be the end of this piece. I have decided to not post it for certain reasons. Maybe one day when I’m older I will post it. Every time I watch myself playing this piece I will think of what a great mom my mom is and how far I’ve come. I like this quote from barbie: mothers stand still so their children can look back and see how far they’ve come. Hey it’s 6.October, i just thought I’d give a little life update: my mom actually got the job at the finance thingy. We’re actually doing pretty well. We’re looking for a bigger house rn since ours is a little rented apartment and we always have wanted our own house. I’ve been making money through tutoring kids in my city and playing at concerts. I’ve even won a competition that payed a little money. So yeah, I guess it’s true: hard work=eventual success. Happy autumn!

[@dragonslayeralex3316]

Godspeed, you absolute legend

[@heatherthedutch-american1481]

You can do it! Happy birthday to mom!

[@parky1628]

HAHAHAHA good luck 😎

[@justaguywhocommentsforfun]

I shall join this journey. Best of luck 🤞

[@Inkymarkergg]

@@justaguywhocommentsforfun have fun and don‘t give up

[@thetrombonetoad]

“John Case passes by” and “John Cage leaves” was absolutely hilarious

[@helenchelmicka]

😅😅

[@w1nn0v4k]

hold up i gotta google something

[@w1nn0v4k]

ok this is funny

[@catelerasofficial]

Yesss 😂❤

[@dlevi67]

It should have been around 4:30, though...

[@keilafleischbein59]

I honestly love that it's the deaf man who keeps telling them to shut up

[@Aerodumb]

Beethoven, probably: "The loathsome movement of your lips infuririates me"

[@Coffeeismylife0315]

When Schubert unleashes Erlkonig, you know shit's getting serious

[@204lemon]

Honestly I'm feeling incredibly worried for Satie!

[@naohitotakatori3729]

not to worry! satie’s dad is giving him a ride.

[@angeliquecheung574]

Yup

[@moraien3278]

@@naohitotakatori3729 hope his soul didn't get snatched away during the ride.

[@Ringinthetrue17]

I just love that Schubert just has the Erlking on standby, ready at a moments notice

[@Alex_in_Wonderland111]

This is a fight I would pay real money to see

[@wotamelondo8591]

Ok but imagine an Opera with this

[@NicholasMaMusic]

That would be hilarious! The visuals of composers having an all out brawl certainly would be a sight to behold

[@Marewig]

I will definitely buy a ticket if it ever plays nearby, even if it meant saving up for months.

[@DA-Dali]

I wanna do it

[@rue6914]

I'm an opera singer, and I love this idea lol

[@keepyourshoesathedoor]

Who’s gonna do it???

[@MereMeerkat]

Honestly, stuff like this is why I can never seriously consider my undergrad music degree "useless." Debussy telling everyone to chill almost made me do a spit take. Perfect.

[@Animaticx]

As someone who had a pretty long classical composer obsession, this is so accurate. Not just the composition, the personalities too 😂. Almost expected Paganini to come in and claim he needed to sacrifice the cake to the devil as a lie to keep the whole thing but I remembered my boy was a violinist.

[@jackrobmusic]

Would that be a Devils Food Cake?

[@adelinaarmstrong9423]

i was more thinking he'd smash something simply to cause more chaos LHDJFALJDKFA

[@hermi1-kenobi455]

Paganini with this 140+ guitar compositions huddled in the corner..

[@META_mahn]

Paganini shouts "I can do it better!" and then proceeds to somehow turn the cake into a four-dimensional cake

[@HieuPham-gc4jd]

Great

[@preludelight]

This was one hell of a dissertation. Congratulations, Doctor.

[@sarahshydale4051]

The visual of Mozart laughing far too hard at his own poop joke is just amazing

[@sampaguita_dew]

the ‘Beethoven tells (insert composer) to shut up’ got me every time

[@3MB3Rx134]

This started as happy birthday and then ended as RPG final boss music with an essence of Happy birthday

[@zozonihon5683]

That was me 😂

[@louisegogel7973]

What does RPG stand for please?

[@choco_L8]

@@louisegogel7973 role-play game

[@springhasarrived]

"john cage passes by" "john cage leaves" perfect resolution to a piece

[@erikvaros]

This was the greatest crossover in human history!

[@NicholasMaMusic]

Thank you! It was fun trying to jump from one composer to another while using the happy birthday melody as a unifying link

[@phantomlover1467]

Eat your heart out Endgame!

[@Samantha-vlly]

THE greatest indeed

[@jakeacake6899]

That fusion of Happy Birthday and Fantasie Impromptu was really seamless and actually worked really well as music

[@zhihuangxu6551]

And the Beethoven's Moonlight Mvt 3 reference is literal the third sentence of Happy Birthday

[@euphonos5389]

with a subtle jab at the lick.

[@1classikai]

"Schumann unleashes the Erlkonig on Satie" got me *good* but "John Cage passes by... John Cage leaves" had me *CACKLING LIKE A GREMLIN*

[@robnolan4150]

Agreed!!!! That was awesome!

[@philipmcniel4908]

I actually played along on my piano when it got to that part. I was sitting on the couch across the room from my piano.

[@alexanderfo3886]

So true, this is the most hilarious classical music joke I've seen so far.

[@emmari901]

Schubert unleashing the Erlkönig had me cackling 😂 such beautifully chaotic joy! Well done!

[@sofiaspiano7892]

wouldn't the erlkonig kill satie though?

[@Evonne_Lee]

@@sofiaspiano7892don't worry, it's just his Stand :P

[@ShinnoEli]

@@sofiaspiano7892 Not if he surrenders the cake, I assume. ...Or runs faster than at least one other partygoer.

[@gitasong]

Same. 😁🐎🧝‍♀️👑

[@brianawong312]

I enjoy how aggressive Beethoven is. He's over here telling everybody to shut up.

[@melissalawson7803]

He was kinda known for being hard to get along with. Genius musician, though.

[@brianawong312]

@@melissalawson7803 Judging by his depiction in the movie Beethoven Lives Upstairs, he was the weird kid next door your mom forced you to play with. In a good way.

[@chengguowei5591]

Even tho he couldn’t hear!!! 😅

[@GunSpyEnthusiast]

he's had enough shit, and regardless of who's shit, he's had enough of their shit, which I can relate to.

[@Whalefire2]

"I'm deaf and im already tired of your noise"

[@Meca-Mat]

[2:51] I love the "Beethoven tells Liszt to shut up" one because it's so long that it feels like he says something like: "Liszt, please, instead of scaring us like that, I politely and cordially ask you to shut the fuck up."

[@word6344]

Adding that in my animatic of this masterpiece

[@AndyTheInconsistent]

OMG yes

[@louisegogel7973]

@@word6344 Let us know when you have finished it and send us the link please!

[@noonelooksatusers]

😂

[@tanakaalisa6932]

john cage walking past this whole debacle is criminally underrated I will request this to be played at my birthday party

[@AlyWayMusic]

The John Cage ending is pure gold. 😂

[@ekomieran7150]

beethoven telling liszt to shut up with moonlight sonata just felt so incredibly petty that i audibly laughed

[@crazycookie9000]

This is like a Looney tunes sketch conveyed entirely through music and text. Well done 😂

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

True hahaha

[@NanoNovaBlast]

Now I want someone to animate this in the looney toons stlye

[@wyattstevens8574]

Literally!

[@danielhawkins6425]

Better yet, the Animaniacs!

[@Usrr11]

If only somebody animated it.... It would be truly perfect.

[@sarahporter9892]

Okay but Moonlight Sonata and Claire de Lune work surprisingly well superimposed with Happy Birthday

[@thsoup2353]

They're both works of the moon.

[@1224chrisng]

​@@thsoup2353 well that's just lunacy, a pie in the sky kind of talk

[@juditveres_hearts]

​@@1224chrisng 😅😂👍

[@thetachiban57]

This needs to be arranged for an orchestra and then animated. It's excellent.

[@wyattstevens8574]

I think one of the most hilarious lines is "Mendelssohn arrives late from a wedding, but is incredibly confused." I imagine it happening this way: Everyone's scrambling for the cake. Mendelssohn: "Hey, guys, sorry I'm late, I was at a wedding- what am I looking at?" Dvorak: "Ok- here's what you saw: somebody's got most of the birthday cake, and the rest of us were going to get what was left."

[@FluffyCottonDragon]

i have never seen a song have such deep lore and personality, also i just imagine all the 1800s man with the wig pushing eachother like kids to grab a piece of cake

[@raysafatewalker8342]

This was a wonderful combination between fanfiction and music, thank you.

[@GuyMcPherson69]

agreed

[@elizabethhearts189]

Why don't they show this stuff in music history? This. Is. Gold.

[@kuromigruzen489]

I am an opera student who has been revising the different composers and their distinct styles. This video unironically helped me a little better, not to mention made me laugh so hard 😭🤣 good job and thanks for this!!

[@NicholasMaMusic]

Thank you, glad this was able to help you revise!

[@rue6914]

I'm also an opera student let's go!

[@snubby49]

@@rue6914 aww i hope you two meet at an opera 5 years later, magically get into a wild scenario, be partners in crime and go through an enemies to lovers trope in a span of a couple hours!!💞

[@birchy_paw]

@@snubby49 bro how’d you know what I thought of 😭 IMAGINE THEY’RE ALREADY IN THE SAME CLASS OR SMTH AND THEY JUST DON’T KNOW IT

[@snubby49]

@@birchy_paw FRRR omg someone write a book about this-😩💞

[@paulgering7703]

Satie: *cake is mine* Prokofiev: So you have chosen death.

[@tree2378]

Beethoven repeatedly telling people to shut up as the deaf one is so funny to me.

[@ssently7512]

I wish I could share this with someone, but unfortunately I have no one who appreciates classical music in a way like this 😭 This is a masterpiece, thank you.

[@sweetparriz]

I wish I understood this, I sort of play the piano and know almost all the pianists in the video but I wish I knew the context, it would’ve been so funny 😢

[@saltedglen]

@@sweetparriz i didnt know anything BUT googled the things inside and ITS ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS TRUST ME GOOGLE ALL OF EM ITS SO WORTH IT

[@anapetrovic2260]

You are so right! Masterpiece with humor!

[@stack-of-all-trades6689]

I'm supposed to be writing a paper right now but all I wanna do is draw a bunch of classical composers choosing violence

[@TeamGalactic-Cyrus]

did you draw it

[@yunaisdumb]

SJSSJSJSJS SAME

[@v-botgamer3750]

Pleeeeaaassssseee???!!!!

[@CaptainJackSparrowSavvy]

Lol

[@dariattic]

My favorite part is "Satie secretly leaves having stolen most of the cake" XD I can almost see him waltzing as he walks away, cake box in hand XDXDXD

[@tiny_giant3034]

Okay but why is this an actually fantastic way to learn and distinguish the different composers styles 😂😂

[@coralreef2329]

272 likes and no comments? Lemme fix that

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

The Moonlight Sonata combined with Happy Birthday was PAINFUL 😂. I half expected Bach's part to be either only playable on pipe organ or require at least 4.5 hands to play on piano 😂

[@caffeineandmemes]

My roommates asleep like 3 feet away and I’m struggling so hard to not wake her up by laughing. The John Cage bit was subtle but amazing

[@louisegogel7973]

I wonder if Cage was trying to see if people could hear the musicians telepathically in his piece!

[@azharaitkali8102]

can u explain

[@duck_is_lord]

@@azharaitkali8102 If you're referring to the John Cage bit, he has a piece called 4'33" in which the performer just sits in silence and occasionally opens and closes the piano lid for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. That's why he played nothing when he entered and left

[@StormWarningMom]

I wondered about that. Thanks for explaining :)

[@nathanielestabrooks1959]

The John Cage bit was the crown jewel of the whole beautiful thing!

[@marcraider]

Beethoven telling all to shut up is hilarious

[@mop7316]

me before clicking on the video: 7 minutes? don't think i'll watch the whole thing me 7 minutes later, more invested into this storyline than i've been in anything in a long time: WHERE'S THE SEQUEL

[@nfullenwider]

Friend, I went from washing dishes and making coffee to sitting down entranced. You're not the only one who was transfixed!

[@chamberlamps6855]

You not only flawlessly incorporated my favorite Satie piece but also made him the cake thief?! Instant classic masterpiece right here, bravo

[@sheenheebs4528]

liszt kicking in the door was by far the best, only coming in second to john cage politely declining any part in the madness. fantastic work!

[@colossaltitan3546]

Even though this was purely a musical composition, I was already way more invested in the story within a few minutes than anything else I've ever seen

[@isaacpianos5208]

"Beethoven tells _____ to shut up" made me crack everytime lol

[@PazWasHere]

When I saw "sneakin' that jazz in", I KNEW I was going to hear the fucking lick and once it happened, I still snorted and choked on my own laughter. This is amazing, my man. Well done!

[@ozzyfromscotland]

beethoven telling everyone to shut up despite being deaf is the highlight of this

[@ernestoTrajano]

This is absolutely fantastic and hilarious! It is really hard to find the best sentence, but "Prokofiev becomes so angry that the needs 3 staves to express this anger at the cake thief", as well as Schubert unleashing Erlkönig must be top 5. Congratulations! P.S.: I think an animated short film depicting this birthday party would be a great idea.

[@NicholasMaMusic]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!

[@pakkiufung883]

6:35

[@Luna_Ranar]

He be like Erlkönig I choose you!

[@engelkidd]

Yes for the animated short film !

[@music389xd4]

Please do this with 13 pianists dressed as the composers actually fighting over the last slice of cake saying these lines and with the sheet music transcription the music video, I really would love to see that for this brilliant arrangement! The styles of the composers are so distinct here and the transitions are amazing! This piece is amazing, love this composition.

[@kavtoM]

i just imagine there is one piano and they keep pushing each other off. which, considering their personalities, i honestly believe would have happened if you locked them all in the same room.

[@dysanity]

Don’t forget to make the costume low budget to add more humor with no narration, just letting the music tell its story

[@music389xd4]

@@kavtoM Yea, that's what I was thinking would happen as well. Yes, with one piano and one room.

[@music389xd4]

@@dysanity Yea.

[@harp7803]

Beethoven telling everyone to shut up when he's deaf is just amazing

[@dwell7315]

I love that almost every composer enters with one of their most famous pieces before joining the shenanigans, makes me think they're each at their own piano doing their own thing until the ones fighting over cake interrupt their practice/composing time

[@kiwina-b2x]

MY FATHER BURST OUT LAUGHING WHEN MENDELSSON AND JOHN CAGE APPEARED- THAT'S AN ABSOLUTE WIN

[@definitelynotobsessedwith]

I’m a piano student who absolutely hates doing history :’) BUT THIS WAS ACTUALLY REALLY FUNNY AND YOU CAN PICK OUT EXACTLY WHO IS WHO BY THE STYLE

[@maxleibert5289]

its not the "style" its literally mainstream compositions with the HBD theme somehow mixed into them - thats my problem with it

[@irenejohansen1370]

@@maxleibert5289you still have to understand the style to successfully weave it all together.

[@allenapplewhite]

@@maxleibert5289 While you are correct about the semantics of the word "style" and how it is applied to this arrangement, it is still impressive to mold HBD to fit into all these other pieces. It is really a ballad of composers greatest hits mashed-up with HBD. But you could also argue that each of these pieces ARE in the style of their respective composers--quite literally and obviously so. I can see how that could be disappointing if you were hoping for a brand new composition written in the "style" of each composer. But technically, Moonlight sonata IS in the style of Beethoven...even though we dont usually think in those terms and honestly, I made the same assumption at first too. But I still enjoyed the arrangement and weaving HBD into pieces I never would have imagined, and the storytelling was awesome and on point!

[@royallygray]

The character progression in this story is amazing, 10/10. Made me cry. (I’m mostly talking about the annotations, as a joke, but the music part is also really good /gen)

[@jillmeasel2072]

This is actually a musical masterpiece. Having Hungarian Rhapsody, Happy Birthday,The Wedding March, Gymnopedie No 1, and the lick all combined.

[@luisabolado]

the lick?😭

[@barnowl6752]

@@luisaboladojust search up “the lick jazz” and you should find it, it’s a meme bc it’s in jazz a lot lol

[@jillmeasel2072]

@@luisabolado Yep, they put it in there.

[@luisabolado]

@@barnowl6752 ohh ty!

[@Dr.PicklePh.D.]

This is possibly the greatest video on KZbin. I did not get spoiled by the comments, thank goodness, so I chuckled the whole way through and when the John Cage joke hit at the end I actually laughed so hard tears came out my eyes. If that's ever happened, I don't remember.

[@NicholasMaMusic]

Haha thank you, I'm glad you found this hilarious!

[@angeliquecheung574]

Same

[@essixthefalcon8657]

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE MAKE AN ANIMATIC OUT OF THIS! Just imagine all those classical people choosing violence cus of cake Edit: Holy shit this exploded. We all unite in wanting to see classical composers fight for cake!

[@legendgames128]

I'd like to see Prokofiev giving Satie a beatdown.

[@olliefriesen5634]

YES.

[@shibaorhamster3182]

@@whatAjewel11 looking oh so very forward!!!

[@guitarpick2002]

Agreed! I want to see Liszt kick down the door and Satie stealing the cake!

[@nextusp]

@@whatAjewel11 lmk when you finish!

[@lighthouse_goblin]

All I can imagine is Tchaikovsky hearing faint screaming in the distance but completely ignores it while a battlezone is going on lol

[@jactanticulus]

Was so invested in the story that unironically felt happy when everybody got their slice of cake

[@mr.randomguys7629]

I love this. You can distinctly tell what each composer’s part in the song is and the different styles really blend nicely. I hope you plan to do more things like this in the future as I really love it.

[@NicholasMaMusic]

Thank you, great to hear the different styles were successfully conveyed! Definitely would be interested to do more pieces with this format in the future!

[@mr.randomguys7629]

@@NicholasMaMusic Cool, I will look forward to those. Doing the whole clashing composer thing is far more fun and interesting than just injecting memes into classical music and calling it “cursed” in my opinion. I also love how the notes you made throughout the piece make it sound like all these composers are some sort of dysfunctional family who are forced to cohabitate despite all having clashing styles and ideas. :)

[@roxiep2010]

I'm imagining a Looney Tunes-esque animated short accompanying all of this and it's great fun. In my head, all of the composers are drawn in different styles to match the chaotic energy of the composition.

[@Lasanga95]

I could do it if I had enough motivation.

[@thehappyfemme]

​@@Lasanga95 here's your motivation: Do it! 😎

[@rahuqraf]

The John Cage joke is severely underrated. That had me ROFL

[@MeIg-bb9fp]

Being able to distinctively hear who the composer is behind each part even when it's kinda mashed together is magical✨

[@wangsengsin2527]

The comppsers as your relatives (according to video): Chopin: Gifted cousin Beethoven: The angry irritable uncle who's only here because family Mozart: The fun dad Bach: That relative you never remember Rachmaninoff: The uncle that is good at cooking and way too nice Liszt: The rich and overdramatic uncle Debussy: The chill uncle who might be a stoner Schumann: The interesting storytelling uncle who works an odd job (ig secret agent) Mendelssohn: The womaniser Dvořak: The sensible but boring uncle Satie: The mischievious cousin Alkan: The way too loud cousin Prokofiev: The super strict and aggressive uncle who isnt afraid to use the cane. John Cage: The weird uncle who appears uninvited and via the bathroom window.

[@glenngouldschair390]

Schubert: the uncle you think is boring but actually has the frigging erlking

[@LongDeadArtist]

This is an absolute gift of music theory and I absolutely adore it. It's the sole reason to learn theory and should be prized as a gorgeous and timeless story of the ages.

[@oneirdaathnaram1376]

A gift of music theory or music history?

[@LongDeadArtist]

@@oneirdaathnaram1376 theory

[@spacenaves]

how do i learn more