Paul Abraham Dukas - Sorcerer's Apprentice

Paul Abraham Dukas (1 October 1865 - 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions.
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[@SuperCobra011]

The brooms at my home gets out of control everytime I play this.

[@atyourserviceable]

Now that is funny !

[@SuperCobra011]

atyourserviceable xD oh yes!

[@andrewscott2583]

you're the lucky one I have to keep my appliances under control every time..... Oh crap the refrigerator got loose..... Come back! The casserole will spoil!

[@sophieheath70]

broom broom

[@masonsykes2240]

+Andrew Scott Is your refrigerator running? Then you'd better go catch it!

[@Stussmeister]

Apparently, Dukas was very, very self-critical of his work, and consigned most of his compositions to the fireplace late in life. Fortunately for us (and for Mickey Mouse), this masterpiece survived.

[@WillCMay]

Pretty sure he actually approved the scene. He was alive in the 1930s, he would have been around when Phantaisia was in pre-production and approved its usage. If muchof his works were burned, well Disney saved this one by liscencing it from him for Phantaisia. I may have not grown up with the animation and may just be a weirdo that likes classical music but thank you Walt in that case.

[@Stussmeister]

@@WillCMay Good point.

[@shlby69m]

That scene added color to my interpretation.

[@worldofhunter1636]

I'm not sure Mickey is fortunate that this piece survived considering how he was treated during the segment by all of those brooms.

[@Stussmeister]

@@worldofhunter1636 Good point, considering how they walked all over Mickey and almost drowned him. Then again, I believe the moral of the story is that power is most useful in the hands of those who truly understand it, and those who try to use it without such understanding can find it swiftly turned against them.

[@Msdaisycane]

I wish I could have heard this before Fanstasia, but now all I can think of are mops beating up Micky

[@LittleJerryFan92]

+Msdaisycane Or the sorcerer washing the water away.

[@logancampbell7924]

when i was little fantasia used to scare me

[@Doughboy123x]

+Logan Campbell You're not alone on that. Now it's one of my all-time favorite movies.

[@alexandrahonrado3657]

+Msdaisycane the real story is exactly what fantasia portrayed...with brooms...Sorcerer's apprentice is actually a ballad

[@mactodoterreno1480]

You're absolutely right, the music brings me the face of Mickey Mouse with a big sorcerer's hat ,,, ,,, haha. Anyway the original music is that of a genius.

[@worldofhunter1636]

Another fun fact: If Dukas lived just 5 years longer, he would've been the second living composer to see Fantasia in the making, and I guarantee you that he would've been very proud to see Mickey Mouse playing in his composition.

[@cjrock95]

Sometimes I'd always listen to this when doing chores. Especially if it has to do with sweeping with a broom.

[@duncangraczyk7287]

and whoever invented the Bassoon should be given the Nobel Prize for music.

[@frankstrawnation]

It seems to be a very practical solution.

[@Noah-nu6sz]

Absolutely

[@EBjeebies1081]

Json Stott Well technically he can still receive one posthumously

[@sweaterdog5475]

No better way to put it.

[@mohammedcohen]

The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.

[@GaiusJuliusDeutsch]

I like humming this tune quietly next to some person, and then hearing them hours later still humming it. I do this on purpose and they are never sure how they got it stuck in their heads.

[@koroniskoroneos7639]

Guy Adler wicked!

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

Ingenious...

[@josepheacobar7743]

which part

[@1950Grendel]

And see which ones have the urge to sweep or carry water.

[@xin3079]

Joseph Eacobar 谢谢🙏

[@GrMattPro]

This was the FIRST piece of classical music I EVER heard!! My mom walked us into a record store and told me to have at it. This was one of 2 albums I chose at 4 years old. No, I didn't have clue...but it changed my life. Not just because I'm now a playwright, but because I have the acting, singing and other layers as well...

[@Vectorbabe]

Fantasia was the best intro to classics but nothing can beat Peter and the wolf-especially with Bernstein.

[@MomdYT]

This is so magical !

[@cmvr_gtag]

I agree

[@RoemerS8]

It think it's highly likely that John William was heavily inspired by this piece when composing the score for the Harry Potter movies

[@keithz.rawski6456]

The program music generally is the father of the filmscore.

[@THECAPITALIST12]

So true

[@goth_fraggle]

Not just HARRY POTTER. The "spell theme" from this piece is basically the Rebel Fanfare from STAR WARS

[@Richard_Nickerson]

He definitely quotes parts of it for Star Wars

[@tedwoe]

I also hear a lot of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in here

[@itsjustcam247]

I used to be terrified of this piece as a small child and hide behind the sofa whenever my parents played it. Love it now.

[@brianwalters7855]

This music is truly... MAGICAL. Thank you, Paul Dukas and Walt Disney. 🎩🪄

[@tellcolombo8549]

And Leopold Stokowsky !!!

[@BradleyCooper2698]

​@@tellcolombo8549 how the hell do you read or understand this type of music? I like it but I don't bcuz I don't understand it.

[@miguelpereira9859]

One of the many inspirations of John Williams for sure

[@bassoonsaiyan1221]

That Bassoon solo 2:20

[@peteroselador6132]

Bassoon Saiyan What about the glockenspiel solo shortly after?

[@jules4813]

+Peter Oselador xD true

[@nathansimmons7356]

+Peter Oselador It's freaking hard! :p I think it was meant to be played on a keyboard glockenspiel. But yeah, one of my favorite parts, personally :)

[@maximilienrigobert4189]

Make me feel another music sang but i don't remind, frustration

[@loganthevillager9176]

It’s all fun and games till you see your brooms walking with buckets of water.

[@rlrl781]

😂

[@franciec5483]

Wonderful pieces like this make me realize even more how much bassoons are under-appreciated

[@jimmygarza8896]

6:00 starts the build up to my favorite part. 7:20 feels like that moment from the first major hill on a rollercoaster, just before you go over the edge.

[@petrus4]

This was possibly the world's very first infinite while loop.

[@IroquoisPliskin]

+Petrus Laredes else if {Epic argument = "detected"};

[@Cabrono]

As both a software engineer and a musician, I laughed. Thank you.

[@IroquoisPliskin]

Carbonated Water As a Internet Marketer, I laughed too, it makes me remember of those Ponzi Schemes.

[@plutarchheavensbee3483]

i thought it was the song that never ends.

[@osiantownsendjones2833]

5:38 Those trumpets sound like a John Williams film score.

[@igals2343]

Right?!

[@laurarodriguezalbarran6571]

100%

[@ellamars7107]

Osian Townsend Jones absolutely!! when i listen to it, somehow Uranus the magician by Holst comes to my mind...maybe Williams took ispiration from both😄

[@timothyalan34]

Hate to nitpick (that's not true at all), but John William's film scores sound like this, not the other way around

[@toddhoward5749]

It’s bc he steals from old songs

[@TheMusicscotty]

3:20 I smell what would later influence John Williams.

[@Aspiekidvideos]

*Played in band class* *Went to look it up* *Found majesticality*

[@turbobrony1472]

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is forever my favourite from Fantasia!!

[@lisanettles7415]

mine too.

[@paradoxpanda1756]

I really like the mythology one and the night on bald mountain 🙌 but yes sorcerer apprentice is awesome

[@gregoryteter5823]

The piece is called the "Sorcerer's Apprentice", after all. Disney was a genius and this orchestral arrangement is magical.

[@DonutMaster56]

I don’t mean to be a “Sherlock” or a “Captain Obvious” here, but Disney did not compose this song.

[@GrahamChapman]

*+_ DonutMaster56 _* True, Disney was no composer, but seeing all the things he did and the impact he had on entertainment and animation (for an example, have a look at this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5WrhZ-LfLNksNk ) I don't think it'd be incorrect to say that he was a kind of real-life magician.

[@firnomennescio4227]

@@GrahamChapman hearing this and then saying Disney is great. Paul Dukas is the great one.

[@GrahamChapman]

@@firnomennescio4227 I'm not denying that. Disney would be nothing today without composers, be they some of history's greatest legends, or Disney's own "Merrie Melodies" composers. But Walt helped breathe a lot of life into the old classics.

[@worldofhunter1636]

Technically we have to hand it to the great Leopold Stokowski for conducting this for the film, but this version in the video is conducted by Irwin Kostal.

[@betinacarreto7679]

I love songs like this that lets your imagination explode with ideas on your own story.

[@pugswillfly3211]

This, Bit of elgar, And williams creativity is what made the music of harry potter and star wars great

[@danbreeden8738]

This piece of music is my all time favorite

[@Nakaraf666]

Imagine 00:00-01:00 a large spacious study/laboratory were a young bored apprentice studies and where the old master is placing logs in the fireplace. 01:01-01:08 The master is casts a fire spell at the logs, the fire flashes and then soften. 01:09-01:44 The master speaks to his apprentice: My dear apprentice we need more firewood but sense I can see how focused on your studies I will gather it myself to night. and thus leave the room. 01:45-06:59 the apprentice jumps up and grabs the masters spell book from a table and starts to throw small simple spells then lager and more complex spells for every thrown spell. 07:00-08:00 The apprentice casts a all to complex spell and loses control so he starts to shriek in panic and horror. 08:01- 08:25 The master dashes in, takes a moment to grasp the chaotic situation and throws a spell great counter spell and cancel it out. 08:26-09:13 the master approaches the apprentice and say: I know you were eager but never foolish. you are good but some spell are way to complex for you to handle. never cast a spell without how knowing how to counter it! Now go and get us the fire wood while I clear up the worst of this mess you made. 09:15- 09:17 the master throws a lightning blot at the apprentice rear that makes him run.

[@justlily1209]

This is literally the plot of the animation in Fantasia. Without the brooms...

[@oliverclarke9891]

Well that wasn't the point of the piece at all...

[@camilarossini2721]

Please read a bit before commenting, The Sorcerer's Apprentice was originally a poem by Goethe, and the plot is... exactly that.

[@danielvieira7437]

Amo essa sinfonia! É belíssima! Quando ouço parece que viajo a um lugar perfeito, fantasioso e mágico. Um lugar dos meus sonhos..

[@pomni1773]

Sim

[@matthewshadburn8594]

I recently bought a large trough to use for ice baths in the morning. There is no better way to top it off with water than trotting back and fourth from the filling bathtub to the trough with this playing in the background.

[@arturohernandez20]

Mickey Mouse: Mr. Stokowski! Mr. Stokowski! My congratulations, sir! Leopold Stokowski: Congratulations to you, Mickey! Mickey Mouse: Gee, thanks! Hehe! Well, so long! I'll be seeing ya! Leopold Stokowski: Goodbye!

[@1950Grendel]

I don't know of too many other conductors of Stokowski's stature who had the balls to share his podium with a talking cartoon mouse. Bravo, sir.

[@mackenziewachter2508]

Mickey Mouse: Oh Donald Duck! **knocks on door** Donald Duck: **answers the door** Who is it? Mickey Mouse: Donald, it's me Mickey! You're on in 30 seconds! Hurry! Donald Duck: WHAT?!? You've gotta be kidding me!

[@Smileandwavelol]

You provide a very good point. In my opinion, though, there ARE people who look deeper into music like this, and the reason why is that Fantasia was the only way they could first hear classical music. (It even has those comentaries between the music about the composers and such, so people know who created them.) It's better to hear about Dukas and the Sorcerer's Apprentice from SOMETHING instead of never hearing about it at all. I learned about this music from Fantasia, and I'm forever grateful.

[@denisewilliams9405]

I know it feels sacrilegious but I agree better to hear it somehow than not at all👍

[@HalfEatenMedia]

This piece of music blows my mind every time.

[@Pterodactyl13]

You know? Disney did an extremely good job with this piece in fantasia. I still imagine broomsticks when I hear this song.

[@ElizabethPerez-hx4nq]

6:22 is my jam, reminds me of my kid years of watching fantasia

[@MarioMan2010]

I imagine standing in the middle of San Diego Comic Con at Midnight when everything is closed for the night and nobody is around just putting on that Magic Hat to bring everything in the Con to life.

[@themechbuilder6171]

that's very specific but i quite like it! i can imagine all of those 70s scfi creatures coming to life... including da shiny 70s daleks

[@idontknow3718]

I still don't get why my school can afford new lockers every 5 years or so, but can't afford a freaking high quality bassoon!!!!

[@michaelmatthews1567]

I mean, a good bassoon probably costs more than that anyway lol

[@Kreschavier]

It's a high quality bassoon. Orchestrational instruments can probably cost more than the cost it took to build your school.

[@scottyskywalker5768]

Bc usually the band teacher buys it not the school .

[@varniss]

Playing horn for this on Monday, both excited and terrified

[@MinecrafterAl]

How did it go? Did you enjoy performing it?

[@varniss]

Its a good part, we did it to the scene from Fantasia, so the tempo was rather excessive (substantially faster than this recording). Great concert!

i read somewhere that Dukas didn't like "tone poems"/"music that tells a story", wrote this for a bet, and expected it to flop! and in Fantasia, the narrator says that Tchaikovsky excepted The Nutcracker to flop!

[@chrisjorgensen8290]

i love your song !❤ you have the best song's! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@mohammedcohen]

...I first heard this ca 1956/57 on a promotional record (still have) from Cooper Alloys that features this as the intro to a version of Carrol's "The Walrus & the Carpenter" discussing the manufacture of items using hot metals & sand molds...a great introduction to music & poetry from a very young , impressionable boy.... I'm 73 now and need to digitalize the record and preserve it...one of those small inconsequential, forgoten promo records of the early post war era.

[@EnderWolfFTW]

I've never seen Fanstasia, but god damn. This song is beautiful. First time hearing it. Thank you once again, TheWickedNorth!

[@avarettig]

i love the first part with the glockenspiel in it! it’s a very popular excerpt for percussion auditions.

[@SteveBagnall-gh1fu]

My favourite piece of music, my sister bought Ravels Bolero this was on the flip side. Also at school we went to see an orchestra at a bigger school, this was the fanale, hooked ever since.

[@phrababushkath2350]

The "plot" comes from an old Chassidic tale, a golem is brought to life

[@IroquoisPliskin]

how to make money on youtube: 1 - Learn that musics older than 50 years old are no longer copyrighted. 2 - Find 100 epic classical songs. 3 - Upload them to youtube, each one with a single picture. 4 - Activate ads. 5 - Be happy.... And rich.

[@Mrtompie09]

love me some musics

[@piporindo5788]

huh, i thought it were instead 70 years.

[@IroquoisPliskin]

Piporindo the Manatee In some cases.

[@Cnupoc]

Thanks. I'm on it.

[@inferneko]

t h a n k s ! ! !

[@GotMyWay2]

That's why I remember this. Awesome dude.. we're both awesome..

[@Funktastic_Ed]

I think John Williams have found a lot of inspiration in Dukas's music.

[@dick12235]

Thanks again for this wonderful Treat.

[@TheHero136]

My favorite part begins at 3:50 and ends at 5:10 there is such harmony in the orchestra and the music really is amazing

[@dudagamer2541]

essa música é a melhor música clássica que eu já ovi em toda minha vida

[@vjrei]

Yes, I used to play it. Is better to learn it and then go with it, but it sounds awesome! It is what makes that particular part magical.

[@Jagster1995]

I played the full version at the weekend and it went amazing :)

[@BarneySaysHi]

There's parts in there that remind me of Star Wars...

[@ColonelMarcellus]

+BarneySaysHi I don't know how John Williams will take that. Mr Williams?

[@minionfan1024]

+BarneySaysHi Where?

[@forlandm]

+BarneySaysHi That's because John Williams and several other film score composers took inspiration from music like this one. Another example would be "The Planets" by Holst, especially the first movement (Mars).

[@ChupeTTe]

1:46 That's it

[@odedfried-gaon2880]

that is one wild piece of orchestration!

[@mistuhbear]

This piece is so bloody hard on the woodwinds! Whenever I play the oboe part, I find myself crying inside. o-o Absolutely fun piece, albeit ridiculously difficult for the woodwinds.

[@vreschen939]

I can also only imagine how difficult it is for the strings to maintain composure at around 7:15. That kind of massed instrumental whirlwind seems extremely rare in classical music.

[@thejils1669]

@@vreschen939 You think the woodwinds and strings have it hard? Get a load of the low brass (bass trombone) part playing the melody forte at the end flourish and the wicked glockenspiel part toward the beginning. The bassoon part is really not that difficult by comparison.

[@vreschen939]

@@thejils1669 Well, I understand that, but I was just referring to the strings.

[@thejils1669]

@@vreschen939 I was trying to maintain the initial subject thread regarding how difficult this piece is, arguably for everyone.

[@Jaradacl]

58 people were beaten up by mops

[@pessimisticpianist582]

Ha ha, underrated comment.

[@Blud6966]

3 yo comment uh

[@snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454]

Thanks for uploading!

[@rellovesinstruments7]

I tapped my foot the whole time I listened to this. I guess that comes from being a musician, and because this is GREAT! :D

[@narhikmat]

This piece is exquisite. Dukas' score is like a finely chiseled brilliant diamond.

[@EagleOneM1953]

Try to listen to this and not see Mickey Mouse darting al over the screen in his Merlin outfit, I dare you. It's impossible I say.

[@EndyMX]

So true... I couldn't hahaha.

[@emmanuelmoreau6445]

I couldn't too... Now I see Mickey Mouse everywhere >

[@Madgegames]

I've never seen the movie so I'm okay xD

[@mugena2908]

Not Me i see my marching band LOL.

[@mongomoonbladder8023]

Herman Hakvoort It's called Fantasia.

[@rednose_7928]

The description of the composer states “he was intensely self-critical”. I feel that, brother.

[@Alex24241211]

Every time I hear this I think of Mickey Mouse and Fantasia.

[@KoitsumiFlippy180]

sooo nostalgic :´)

[@HostWithTheMost]

Anyone think that Sorcerer's Apprentice and Night on Bald Mountain would be Disney exclusives?

[@xin3079]

wow

[@xin3079]

i love you

[@sanqiangli6425]

Another piece of music that's been stuck to my head for several years without me knowing what the hell it was...

[@MatthewTheMusicAndHotWheelsFan]

I noticed the video's quality looks much better than it used to be.

[@darkestserenity6775]

simply magnificent

[@breasthound]

This definitely influenced John Williams in many ways.

[@jasos64]

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[@themechbuilder6171]

8:30 2023?

[@KendrickHarrisKenfinity]

Mystical and fantastic in so many ways. No matter where our connection to this meaningful piece comes from, we are mesmerized by it everytime.🎯🎵🎶🪄🌌🌅 Stay safe everyone!

[@MrFpam]

Your comment about Mendelssohn and others appears to have been removed. You are quite right to point to the fact that there are songs without words which can be played on the piano or another instrument. In a sense they are still sung, even if they don't have words. There is a growing tendency for young people to refer to any and every piece of music as a song. I am probably fighting a losing battle in trying to oppose it. Stokowski is often derided but certainly popularised this piece!

[@SMAKOSZMISTRZ]

magic music I love dukas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@soaper4]

I haven't seen Fantasia since I was, like, six, but it's still hard not to visualize brooms coming to life when I hear this song.

[@pooper4]

I can imagine every scene in this song.

[@annajohnson2367]

Any musicians here who never saw Fantasia but played this?

[@butterflysincoffins]

When I heard this piece in the movie THE SOCERER'S APPENTICE a major light bulb went off in my head. I knew I heard the name before but just couldn't put my finger on it!!! Go Micky! I hope you learned your lesson :)

[@williamfiuza8328]

Melodia fantástica.

[@nairdaoneub]

I love this amazing 'song'. i play bassoon and i'm really happy we have wonderful parts like this ^^

[@jjm666]

Bassoon Power!!!

[@jjm666]

and the contra-bassoon so cool!

[@cms1947]

Fabb piece of fun. Havent heard it played in full since I was a kid at Primary School. Great orchestra. Thanks for all your hard work uploading all this lovely music.

[@ArthDragon14]

Oh... The nostalgia, fantasia is so awesome.

[@worldofhunter1636]

Fun fact: The version playing right now is the Irwin Kostal Re-recording of Fantasia from 1982......

[@Ikonicre]

People, this isn't FROM the Disney film Fantasia, rather the other way around. Dukas wrote L'Apprenti Sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) in 1897 based on a poem written by Goethe a hundred years before that. Disney was born in 1901 and the original Fantasia film came out in 1940, followed by another in 1999 or 2000 (can't remember), both based on Goethe's poem and Dukas' music. :-)

[@martind349]

Ducky used to swing from the pole outside Bob the Priest's exclaiming This one! This is the one I want to be known for!

[@The87Nati]

Kocham ten utwór...

[@Moribus_Artibus]

3:12 Best part!

[@jthbjr]

@cesarjimenezanimator PaulDukas wrote "L'apprenti sorcier" in1897. The music was composed to express in music the poem "Der Zauberlehrling" by Goethe written in 1797. I had to translate it many years ago in German class. The poem is the same story as in "Fantasia" including the 2 halves of the broom keeping on bring water. Micky is still the best actor for the part.

[@musecontact1835]

me donne invariablement le sourire !

[@finjas3991]

I think, it' s like Harry Potter ☺

[@jjgg275]

I love the music at 3:12

[@FoodOnCrack]

...This was in Walt Disneys Fantasia! Dammit reliving childhood again..

[@dzidziaud]

@Pterodactyl13 That's kind of the point. The piece is BASED on the story about the sorcerer's apprentice and the enchanted broomstick. Hence the title. The animation in Fantasia really is great, but Disney doesn't deserve all of the credit; it's a product of four great works: Lucian's original story in the second century, Goethe's retelling of it in his 1797 poem, Dukas' genius musical vision of it in 1874 that you're listening to here, and Disney's amazing animation of it in 1940.

[@Hyottoko409]

Just ONE vote (mine) for your smart comment in TEN years... Oh, my ! It speaks volume about the cultural level of this century.

[@Doughboy123x]

Simply wonderful!

[@NoahAngott]

The glockenspiel part at 3:12 is probably the most intricate glockenspiel part I've ever read.

[@medievalan6285]

Im playing in vr where you get ti be a wizard and this is great to listen to

[@thafter8941]

I first found this song from the vr game waltz of the wizard so that's probably the game you mean.

[@mistuhbear]

This piece is bloody difficult. :( Maybe not on the strings but I have to declare that it contains some of the hardest written parts for wind players in existence (especially the part at 3:30 ... the so called shrieks that are reputed to be impossible to play perfectly; let's not forget the part at 7:23 that have incredibly awkward grace notes) This piece definitely brings mixed feelings. Joy, as I love Dukas and this piece and Mickey Mouse in all its glory. But pain, as it's quite difficult.

[@user-zz8ds8or3k]

P.S.: well said, Wicked North: "Paul Abraham Dukas (1 October 1865 - 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions." If this would have been his version of "L´apprenti sorcier", he would most likely have destroyed it just as well as most of his compositions BUT he wrote a completely different version, thanks to God!

[@Pterodactyl13]

I'm aware. But thank you for pointing it out. I meant that the imagery Disney created fitted this song so well that it is nearly impossible for me to separate the sounds and animation.

[@tatumchristopherswanson]

2:07 the opening to TheArtOf99’s video Baby Picasso All About The Arts

[@alecusia]

Today I´m going to listen to this live! =)!

[@danwaldis4553]

I have to agree with Julia Pyke. It's a brilliant piece of music. When you start listening closely to how Dukas treated the main themes, the foreshadowing in the beginning, incredible use of the augmented scale variations, legato phrasing of a theme followed by a staccato phrasing of the same theme, rhythmic diminution (time compression) of a theme, and many, many other ways of altering the themes...WOW! And not once did I think of Mickey Mouse! :)

[@cripplehawk]

5:55-6:00 The image of Scratchy hacking Itchy to death with an axe is what I always think of (From the Simpsons).

[@blueyoshi1758]

Don’t start playing this when my broomsticks are out. They start flooding the house....