The Dumbest Troll Classical Music Pieces Ever

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[@_neins]

Not a troll, but a fun fact: when Chopin wrote his etudes op. 10, he showed them to his friend Franz Liszt, who sight-read every single one of them perfectly (It is said that Liszt never made a mistake, even when sight-reading). Many sources state that Chopin was shocked and disappointed in himself at first, but then decided to dedicate these etudes to Liszt.

[@happypiano4810]

He said “I want to rob him of the way he plays my etudes”.

[@sankalp_gupta]

And then he dedicated the op. 25 etudes to Liszt's madam*

[@eliter7991]

There’s no evidence of Liszt sight reading Chopin’s etudes. At least in Alan Walker’s biography.

[@raynlopez7714]

Liszt was a gud pianist

[@Ace-dv5ce]

@@eliter7991 I heard he did the revolutionary , never heard about the others

[@paulwagner688]

Ultimate troll move: Dvorak suspected that the tuba player was having an affair with his wife. So in either the 8th or 9th symphony, he only gave the tuba player EIGHT NOTES ONLY in the entire symphony, all in the second movement. So the tuba player would have to stay until the end.

[@lenochod6]

LOOL, I love Dvořák but this :D he is even better thatn I thought.

[@The-Brute-Squad]

The story likely never actually happened (it's more likely because the tuba was a doubling instrument back then), but the 9th symphony does have only 14 notes in the tuba part.

[@ubiergo1978]

If that's true, it a bad move... I'd do the opposite, make the damn guy to constantly play not stop even a second during the WHOLE symphony... xD

[@ubiergo1978]

@AD Shyn Oh no my friend, I wouldn't do this to be melodic at all... It'd be a constant pain, I want the guy to suffer playing, up and downs non stop for a single second in several hours, it'd be not for show off, what will be a show it's his lungs exploding... I want him to play like the overture 1812 cannons would sound like triangles in comparison... Mmm... have you seen Bugs Bunny when he plays the director/conductor? (Leopold!, Leopold!)?... well.. he wish he was. =P

[@LexNoxus]

@@ubiergo1978 so ravel bolero snare drum?

[@beucorona2170]

The reason why Rossini wrote "the cat duet" was: He used to say the sopranos would sound so horrible while vocalising that even the cats would run away. So he wrote the piece (full of coloratura and hissing) to try to corroborate or prove his point. And btw there are many versions where the singer go on stage with cat ears and tails.

[@xCelaz.The.2nd]

Now I'm interested

[@rekal7775]

I saw it once live at my local conservatory. It was performed by students and the two singer girls dressed up as cats. They genuinely played the cat role so they weren't just standing and singing on stage. I was today years old when I found out that it's a legit famous classical piece and not something composed by a student for fun.

[@oluchiibe98]

The cat duet already sounds better than the 2019 Cats movie.

[@Octopussyist]

They should go on stage with the eletronic cat ears that you can move have twitch with your brainwawes.

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

@link did you really just get excited about 23 likes

[@abstractabby1921]

As a horn player my favorite troll moment is from Mozart. He wrote horn concertos for a close friend of his, and in the original manuscript of one of the movements from a concerto, he left little notes by the music like “take courage” during hard parts, “you ass”, and “thank heavens thats enough”

[@rebekahlee7360]

‘You ass’ 🤣🤣

[@viktoriiafedorova]

Ahahaha, definitely telling this one my fellow french horn player. I wonder does she know this story

[@dees3179]

This is my fave.

[@dees3179]

If you search orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment mozarts naughty notes they have the whole thing up with the score superimposed on the top so you can see what he was writing.

[@oxoelfoxo]

@@dees3179I'll look for that. was introduced to OAE by a GBBO contestant who plays the trombone!

[@hadial-mokdad5322]

Everyone: Classical music is so elegant and sophisticated. Mozart: *Hold my Musical Joke*

[@wilh3lmmusic]

Mozart: Lick my ass (K.231)

[@nateschultz8973]

Nothing says a joke can't be sophisticated and elegant.

[@jmee.mp3]

mozart requiem lacrimosa is 69bpm

[@expinc67]

@@jmee.mp3 he was quite ahead of his time, even the modern day redditors can't compare

[@teresagardiner153]

@@expinc67 Mozart didn't mark the lacrimosa as 69bpm. You're being trolled.

[@chaddad4046]

I thought Mozart was the biggest troll in classical music, but Haydn is on another level.

[@thornhill67]

Yeah. Haydn also has some bassoon fart jokes in his pieces. (see Richard Atkinson's video about it)

[@jmer9126]

Yeah, Hayden’s on a roll. A drum roll. Symphony. Haha

[@DavidBrowningBYD]

I had a music theory instructor in grad school who declared that Haydn was far more brilliant than Mozart. If you think of brilliance as finding innovation within established rules and being amazing nonetheless, I think this instructor was right. (Of course I didn't think so at the time, and as a young man thought far too highly of my own opinion!)

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

@@DavidBrowningBYD Mozart and Haydn were equally brilliant in very different ways. Haydn innovated the symphony and string quartet, while Mozart's innovations were more in operas and concertos. The main reason most consider Mozart "better" is simply because he wrote more top-tier masterpieces that are among the best in all classical music. Haydn has a few of those, but Haydn's real strength is in his consistent excellence. Like, I don't think any Haydn symphony is better than Mozart's Jupiter, but as a body of work I'd take Haydn's symphonies over Mozart's, and I'd say the same for their string quartets. However, the thing is that Haydn doesn't really compete with Mozart when it comes to operas and concertos, while Mozart is very competitive with Haydn in terms of symphonies and string quartets. I'd also say that Mozart has a lot of other chamber music and choral music that's generally better than Haydn (though Haydn's Creation stands with Mozart's best choral music).

[@DavidBrowningBYD]

@@jonathanhenderson9422 I would agree with you completely, although as a singer, I would say that Haydn's music is as much a joy to sing as Mozart's. I would not want to choose a favorite between the two!

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

It's nice how you can find humor literally anywhere, including classical music pieces of all things.

[@shelbyherring92]

Mozart literally wrote a song called "Lick My Ass"... and it's considered one of the finest pieces in the classical music genre. The comedy isn't hard to find sometimes.

[@COOL_GEEK_]

Love your username though. ❤️👍

[@ionlypostonceayear._.5537]

Ye

[@mazeppa1231]

Alkan wrote "funeral march for a dead parrot", because he wanted to troll Rossini for his love for parrots... And when Saint-Saens' wrote "Carnival of Animals", one of the "animals" included pianists practicing scales badly, because it was a well known joke at the time that pianists were practically animals imprisoned by their instrument. There is a lot of humor in classical music. One just has to explore a little bit.

[@embran8486]

@@shelbyherring92 Carmina Burana is chock-full of it. But darker. Delicious cynicism and social commentary of that time.

[@prune9421]

The joy to see a twoset notification

[@KarateLauren]

this brings a smile to my face

[@_alexcr]

Twosetnotification

[@Majo_404]

Mozart also composed a six voice canon called „Leck mich im Arsch“, which translates to lick me in the ass. It was thought to be a party piece for his friends and used the main theme of Haydn‘s 3rd Symphony. The biggest trolls in classical music were collaborating after all.

[@Thelaretus]

They know. Some old videos of their mention this piece. I think they're just trying to avoid demonetisation.

[@sarasate89]

Twoset have already done a video featuring this work by Mozart! It was very funny.

[@marlenevdmaas]

He even did that piece in Latin, after the church banned it. It still sounds like ‘Leck mir im arsch’. And I believe he did a version for a choir too. He had issues😂😂

[@heichan8657]

Daddy Amadeus

[@cvlen]

@@marlenevdmaas Lectu mihi Mars xD

[@gabo3254]

One of the first “troll” pieces i listened to and really enjoyed was shostakovich’s ninth symphony - what was supposed to be an epic symphony comparable to beethoven’s ninth, but turned out to be all light because shosty looked at all that expectation and went “nah”

[@artemlyubchenko3022]

Yeah just commented that lol, also thought of this

[@matthewcline8580]

i love that first movement with the trombone entries!! it's so hilarious

[@totally_not_a_bot]

The symphony was originally intended to celebrate a major Russian military victory over Germany. He declared well in advance his intention to compose a piece reflective of Russia's greatness. He proceeded to change it last-minute in protest of said greatness.

[@user-tl6jr2ez7s]

“Shosty”

[@ronelel2109]

@@totally_not_a_bot And then it ended up killing Stalin.

[@fallingstar4990]

Last year my High School orchestra instructors were retiring, and decided that the Farewell Symphony would be the piece the seniors played for the last concert of the year. I actually teared up as I saw each senior leave one by one.

[@oliverk.8312]

Absolutely perfect. Honestly I gotta talk about that with my school’s orchestra

[@fantomhalo3938]

I hope my orchestra does that, but I just know that I would be absolutely destroyed after I'd walk off stage

[@xc95928]

10:32 "degenerate" "both degenerates" I love you, editor-san.

[@blegh8753]

the pure terror in the lady's voice in firebird is just art

[@kaitlynleung6598]

I go back to that video clip every time I need to laugh. It never fails!

[@liquidog]

2:02

[@blegh8753]

"musicians would literally leave mid-symphony" koreans who work over time everyday: THE LIFE OF MY DREAM

[@janice3230]

this is so true lol

[@sisfantasto7004]

Haydn had a quite down to Earth reason for his Farewell Symphony: The Orchestra didn't get paid for some reason or other and Haydn composed it as a musical Rebellion and as a warning to show the customer, that the musicians would go away, if they didn't get paid. The musicians left one after the other leaving the Concert Master alone with Haydn in the end. This is a very good choice for these days. Modern Society not paying for music, not paying for musicians is a scandal in our modern World. Lets compose a Farewell Symphony 🙄🎹🎶🎻🎺🪕🥁🎷🎸🥁🎶🔊

[@FictionWriter95]

Actually, the prince who employed Haydn had gone on vacation and taken the orchestra with him, but made them stay much longer than they had expected to (I think it was a few weeks instead of a few days). The symphony was basically Haydn's way of begging the prince to let them go home, and it worked; they went home the next day. You were close though!

[@pedrogoncalves6606]

This time each music puts the covid mask and leaves

[@boriswilsoncreations]

@@pedrogoncalves6606 br?

[@pedrogoncalves6606]

@@boriswilsoncreations Pt :)

[@boriswilsoncreations]

@@pedrogoncalves6606 ah suave hehe

[@martinmaguire-music6692]

I've always wondered if the end of Sibelius' 5th Symphony was a joke. Hear me out... So his 4th Symphony's last movement is very.. unusual .. in that instead of finishing with a bang, it slowly peters out, and concludes with a chord on the lower end of the strings. When it premiered, the audience were hesitant to clap, as they weren't sure whether it was over, and the symphony was very unsuccessful. And the end of his 5th, after iconic 'swan' bit, has the most endingy endings, a series of setups for the cadence, as staccato chord hits, before finally hitting the tonic. Feels like he was saying 'that clear enough for you!?'

[@BlokeOzzie]

I'm inclined to agree with you.

[@resourcedragon]

Wow! You know your Sibelius so much better than I do. But I tend to regard Sibelius as penitential listening.

[@HawkOfGP]

Wasn't the ending of Sibelius' 5th originally a bit different than in the eventual best known version? I think he revised it more than once. Whether it was a "joke", I don't know, but I've heard that Sibelius both read reviews of his works carefully, and was his own worst critic, which is why he would go on revising some of his works over and over, both before and after they premiered.

[@ydgames4291]

It reminds me of Erik Satie's "Embryons desseches" where he made fun of the "romantic" and "aggresive" way to end a piece by repeatedly *hammering* down the last chord for 1 damn page

[@audenisarat8179]

ohh the thinks you learn in twosets comment section. thank you friend

[@cullinann]

Classical music is relaxing, pure and innocent Mozart: am I a joke to you?

[@sharpfang]

2set too family-friendly for Mozart jokes.

[@Rozczoch67]

Chopin,Liszt,Schostakowitsch, beethoven: same Buddy... Same

Haydn: How about no

[@ubiergo1978]

Tchaikovsky: Let me bring a couple of cannons so you guys can relax a bit too. =P

[@dimasgirl2749]

Stravinsky: Got room for one more?

[@BlokeOzzie]

Imagine how disappointed Mozart would be if he was alive today and his musical joke with all of its broken rules still sounds better than 99.99% of current classical music.

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

Yeah, but it doesn't... "Musical Joke" is really terrible, musically... I'm always surprised when people say "oh, but it sounds ok"... It doesn't! It's completely wrong in every way, and it just goes to show how many bad ears there are out there.

[@knownanonymous1691]

@@giuseppelogiurato5718 the thing is we have listened to so many horrible pieces and songs that Mozart's joke really does sound okay

[@adlirez]

@@giuseppelogiurato5718 at first listening I thought it was okay, but after a while I noticed just how off it sounds. The colors chop and change at random and there are parts that just sound awkward (like the three notes followed by a rest in the end)

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

@@knownanonymous1691 that's probably true, lol... I'd rather listen to Musical Joke than Adele. 🤣

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

@@adlirez yeah, it's really very awkward and harsh on the ears, but I laugh every time I hear it.

[@chriss6356]

People: Are you a cat or dog person? Me: 9:38

[@blegh8753]

haydn would probably be that cool uncle who messes around with the kids. absolutely love him.

[@silver.haze33]

brett: “i mean, if it’s there i’ll watch it too” editor-san: ………degenerates

[@johdousha]

Performed in a variety show years ago that had several classical numbers in it. Two women performed "Due Gatti" there, and they sang entirely in proper "opera voices", never slipping into "cat voice". The fun was the slow burn as in gradually dawned on the audience, a couple of people at a time, that all the lyrics were, "Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow." That act brought the house down.

[@heatherduke7703]

I thought the same, I would like to hear it with correct technique

[@ivyallenfiddle]

As everyone else is saying, MAKE THIS A SERIESSSS!!!

[@KozakuraRabbit]

I second this

[@mlee9118]

Yes pls

[@ioanasong]

We want more

[@theyluvtwoset.13]

I 5th this perfectly Like if you get the joke

[@blegh8753]

7:36 twoset: frowning and being disgusted by weird music me, a non-musician enjoying the music:

[@paranguaricutirimicuaro]

10:10 And the cat in your house: “Let me show you”.

[@COOL_GEEK_]

The dumbest troll piece is Brett's Lo-Fi, because Lo-Fi is something that should be relaxing music, which it definitely isn't. EDIT : It's atleast a masterpiece though, as I have been informed.

[@CJ-rx5fi]

Brett’s LoFi is a musical masterpiece!

[@VALT_XION_Animation]

It is though.

[@prodbyevadwave]

Its peaceful tho if u find the meaning behind it

[@kzizzles8329]

The cursed genius

[@melanitesong]

I sleep to it... I have problems

[@f52_yeevy]

Fun fact: Rossini was known for being a true gourmet. One of his most notorious quotes is, in fact: “In order to eat a turkey, we need to be two: me and the turkey.” (Translated from Italian). Plus one of the several recipes dedicated to him is the “Tournedo alla Rossini”, which is a filet mignon pan-fried in butter, served on a crouton, and topped with a hot slice of briefly pan-fried fresh whole foie gras and then topped with truffle and finished with a Madeira demi-glace sauce.

[@vetaniellecalya1662]

Now I'm hungry, thanks 😃

[@wishingonthemoon1]

Omg this is so true. There are so many anecdotes of classical music that stand up to today’s pop culture moments. Classical music was the pop culture of its day. Thank you for keeping us entertained and educated!

[@justary_9790]

Doctor: “Classical music can’t make fun of you” *Mozart* : Allow me to introduce myself

[@derpypaimon5139]

I'm sorry but Eddy's hair at 8:00 😂

[@RSTDRO]

"don't worry honey, classical music can't make troll you!" Mozart: *are you sure about that?*

[@shoe777]

Can't make troll you? Huh?

[@hoon_sol]

@@shoe777: His sentence can't make understand you.

[@shoe777]

@@hoon_sol I don't can't make understand mathematics.

[@alexgranata.2016]

honestly the best joke (as an italian) was listening to them saying “così fan tutte” with their english accent lmao i was about to die 👌👄👌

[@STOPGREENSCREENKIDS1015]

That's actually quite a funny name in Swedish. Fan = common swear word, literally "The devil", tutte = tit, boob. Cosi damnit, tit!

[@ellaespina18]

I remember singing Cat Duet with my classmate back when we're in our last year in college. The whole piece was a bit awkward for me the first time I heard some recordings. Yet, as we go along with the rehearsals, it was actually fun. We had back-up dancers who really dressed as cats. 😊

[@P0PG03S]

neko maidens

[@kristinam4178]

I've watched the cat duet so many times and cracked up for every one of them. I also showed it to a bunch of other people, and they were all like "is this serious?" Also, listening to Surprise Symphony makes me a little anxious because I'm always second guessing which time the music actually gets loud and when it stays soft and just continues the melody. I guess Hayden was successful in making something to keep people from falling asleep!

[@KarstenJohansson]

I've seen it, and until this twoset episode, I did not know it was a real piece. I always thought it was a recent parody.

[@kristinam4178]

@@KarstenJohansson I think I looked it up almost immediately to see if it was real. Otherwise I would have assumed the same thing

[@simplytwosetter]

Twoset should really start a class called "unconventional aspect to appreciate classical music". Damn I'll definitely try to ace that class!! (Not just because I'm Asian lol)

[@sineciomorales9737]

there’s a troll thing in debussy’s children’s corner, where he parodied the tristan chord but made fun of it by separating it and using it for a ragtime style piece

[@pianosbloxworld4460]

My teacher pointed that out. Also a Chopin mazurka (Op.7 no.5) has a sign that allows it to be played as many times as you want.

[@FictionWriter95]

Sometimes when I'm in a compositional rut, I will intentionally try to think of a dumb idea and go all in on it. It's so easy to think that every piece you write has to be a masterwork, that doing something intentionally stupid can be genuinely quite helpful to get out of your own head and just have fun writing music.

[@HermanVonPetri]

I have to believe that Ravel was trolling percussionists when he wrote that snare drum part for "Bolero."

[@janestyles9311]

1:15 genuinely woke up my entire neighborhood

[@oystersnag]

The most troll classical music is by PDQ Bach. I've literally been in tears listening to the music. It's like Weird Al meets classical music.

[@kristinam4178]

My parents sang some stuff by him. My favorite was "Throw the Yule Log On, Uncle John," but I absolutely agree everything I've seen from him is fantastically hilarious.

[@FlamingCockatiel]

Oh, man, one of my top composers. "Long Live the King" is excellent, and I would love to get people to sing it with me, but it's hard to think of an appropriate occasion. I have the Oedipus Tex CD and love the namesake opera (good length of one, IMO) and Classical Rap. If you are so inclined, check out Victor Borge, whose specialty was piano-based classical music comedy. Two highlights are his "Happy Birthday" variations and his performance of "Caro Nome" with Marylyn Mulvey.

[@oystersnag]

@@FlamingCockatiel Thanks for sharing your recommendation. Both of those performances were fantastic. I don't think people give enough credit to these musicians because not only are they funny, but they have a next level of talent to not only be funny, but to actually perform at such a high level. Going back to PDQ Bach, my favorite piece is the 1712 overture. Definitely give it a listen if you haven't heard it before.

[@elincarlson]

@@FlamingCockatiel "When you park your piano, don't forget to take your keys." - Victor Borge as he ceremoniously rips the entire keyboard off and takes it off stage with him. LOLOL

[@janestyles9311]

10:25 and Eddy's wondering why we voted in their previous video that he secretly watches maid cafe vlogs on his spare time

[@amanda8214]

I am living for the *dramatic* intros

[@oathbreakerraiden]

this was uploaded while I was in the middle of having a mental breakdown, thanks twoset! love yall

[@ionlypostonceayear._.5537]

Yes

[@ghostspirit0-085]

dang

[@ionlypostonceayear._.5537]

@@ghostspirit0-085 haha I’m 3 seconds ahead

[@keananok]

Happens

[@ghostspirit0-085]

@@ionlypostonceayear._.5537 NoOOoOOo

[@Kimchi-oy5hh]

Their scream actually jumpscared me though I knew it was coming

[@loonpond]

I found this in the inter-tubes: "The Cat Duet is often attributed to composer Giaochino [sic] Rossini (1792 - 1868) but he wasn’t the one who composed it, even though the piece does contain a lot of his music. It is likely that the piece was compiled by Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795 - 1856). An 1825 edition of the Cat Duet credited Pearsall for the piece, but he was under a psuedonym: G. Berthold, just to add to the confusion!"

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

Gioachino*

[@loonpond]

@@sebastian-benedictflore, You are correct, but the above is a quote. I'll see if I can edit and put "sic" after the name. Thx.

[@MsFeline81]

You can always count on the comment section of twoset to learn more about classical music. I keep wondering though why did Pearsall write it? Love of cats? Or just trolling?

[@DaninMaine]

​@@MsFeline81 Why else would someone compose a humorous piece? To make people laugh.

[@derpypaimon5139]

10:18 timestamp for Brett's adorable "meow"

[@davidnguyen4707]

Haydn also put in fart jokes in some of his symphonies, peak man child humor.

[@sahajkaur2440]

Me: Aw, that actually sounds quite nice! The music: Literally supposed to sound wrong.

[@fiddler_stickss]

I did a ballet dance to the one Mozart Musical Joke piece, and it was really fun. The teacher/choreographer had a good understanding of the history of the piece, and had certain people goof off during the dance lol

[@solenepetit9956]

Check out all the movements of the Carnival of the Animals by Sains-Saëns, they're all hilarious (except the Aquarium and the Swan which are more serious). Particularly the movement called "Fossils", it's a parody of several very famous pieces, including his own work ! Even the description of the piece is a complete troll: Saint-Saëns called this piece a "zoological fantasy" lmao! PS : thank you for the reminder of practicing, on my way to practice for 40 hours !

[@coruscaregames]

I love the concept of Tortoises, Piano Players, and Persons with Long Ears in particular xD

[@TitusTheBard]

Yeah, I though "The Pianists" was going to be on the video!

[@TheSchmuck01]

Saint-Saëns never intended the Carnival Of The Animals to be published, expressly forbade it. But as soon as he died his publisher decided screw that, let's sell this puppy.

[@vetaniellecalya1662]

I personally love The Cuckoo bit cuz imagine u study clarinet for years to play this wonderful soli consisting of 2 notes 😀 2 fucking notes 😀

[@sarahbattensby]

The Mozart composition sounds so much like what I composed in secondary school music when I was 15. He knows the style so well, I feel attacked.

[@steamedbryce]

10:41 Another video with Editor-san being savage af

[@elianaarnold5608]

1:10 okay but the bassists in the corner look CRAMPED

[@astroneural]

4:03 killed me. We love you editor-San!

[@robertmcqueen289]

Firstly, great video guys. Here's a few things you missed, or in one case, you got the wrong composer, which is a common mistake. # Haydn's trumpet concerto. This was composed for the very first keyed trumpet, that could play all the notes in the chromatic scale. So, Haydn started it, on purpose with the Solo trumpet playing in a fanfare style . Then started showing off what this new trumpet can do. These trumpets are still in use to this day, especially in europe today. # A musical joke. Gentlemen, you didn't mention the cadenza, where mozart wrote the Solo violin, going too high, then out of tune, then dropping to a bottom G to sound like a string breaking on the violin. The last movement was used as the theme tune to an equestrian show on the BBC, back in the day. # The Cats duet. Firstly, it wasn't composed by Rossini. It was composed by an English composer, Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795 - 1856), but in the style of Rossini, as a tribute to him. In 1825 Pearsall was given the credit for this piece, in a written piece by a composer G Berthold. Strangely a pseudonym that he also wrote under back in the day. If you want to hear a great version. Find on you tube the last night of the proms 1996. Where you'll find 2 singers having a cat fight over flower bouquets, and a damehood. Honest guys you'll love it. Trust me. Once again gentlemen. Please do more like this. You're both stars. Greetings from Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

[@avarosemoher4526]

THE PURE HAPPINESS I FELT WHEN I GOT THE NOTIFICATION FOR THIS, THANK YOU TWOSETVIOLIN 🥰🥰🥰

[@jelliofthestars]

the surprise symphony is the equivalent of someone screaming during an ASMR video

[@deschua]

As a person who studied classical music in school, I never knew Haydn, the father of symphonies, is such a troll!

[@y2kenh]

I never studied. Can u confirm 8:20 please? I can only explain it as they f'd up and thought the treble was a bass clef

[@majesticseaflapflap7547]

"I wanna see a performance where they're wearing cat ears" and then immediately try to repair it with "tHeRe aRe AniMe giRLs" Careful Eddy, your weeb is showing.

[@helenwong4230]

I can definitely related to that farewell symphony. Speaking as someone working 60+ hrs per week, work regulation is a good thing!

[@viktoriiafedorova]

In the first movement of his XVth symphony Shosty puts a fragment of Rossini's Wilhelm Tell. It is hilarious, almost squeezed a laugh out of me during the live performance. Edit: how about Haydn's fart joke? No way it can be omitted

[@teresagardiner153]

To say nothing of Mozart's many, many fart jokes.

[@jovanj2717]

Haydn and his musicians have been practicing "quiet quitting" in the workplace since 1772

[@Rescel1]

Yeah why there are only 3bars 8:45 Me while enjoying this „bad“ song

[@ViolinHobby]

Ha ha ha. .Haydn troll piece reminded me of the clown out of the music box.

[@adamdonahue2079]

Another interesting one is Debussy’s Golliwog’s Cakewalk, which has a middle section featuring a more subdued line that’s frequently interrupted by this rather comical allusion to Wagner’s Tristan chord from Tristan und Isolde. Sort a “thumbing his nose” gesture towards Wagner and his German dramaticism

[@apooyosucks]

6:18 OOOOOHHH, is that why there was that one gag where Bugs Bunny messed around with this opera singer?

[@jddrew1000]

Precisely

[@Aoi_yuuka]

10:24 Eddy wishing to see 'Cat Duet' being performed in cat ears and similar dress but realises that might never happen *1 month later* Decides to have Brett fullfill his cat kink (ig) , by dragging him into the whole maid dress cat ears saga/wars (The wars still on lol , lets see if Eddy wins or not) Update : Eddy won lol

[@forestenrory]

5:37 a choir substitute teacher once told me that their singers used to leave on the dot at the time, one time he said, wait i have an announcement- none of them stayed. the next day he came in two hours later than the start time and informed them that the announcement had been that they could have the morning off XD

[@BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein]

"You have to practice" I'm in the middle of an Ice Storm / Hail Storm, and I'm a percussionist... It'd be a bit dangerous to hike to my campus's music building

[@bobbityjack]

The surprise symphony was actually to get the attention of the audience as a whole since concerts of the day were social events where people would be chatting the whole time (gotta see and be seen so everyone knows who has the cash to dress up and go out) and the music would often be treated as a background

[@asaqvarnstrom3465]

"There was an exceeding good concert, but too much talking to hear it well. Indeed I am quite astonished to find how little music is attended to in silence; for, though every body seems to admire, hardly any body listens." The protagonist of Frances Burney's Evelina, published 1778, visiting The Pantheon (of London) for the first time.

[@Proud_Troll]

8:38 No, that's actually kinda good. Mozart is incapable of writing bad music.

[@lisztomaniac2718]

You didn't get the point. Mozart intentionally wrote a terrible piece to mock bad composers. There are lots of mistakes in that writing. He was the biggest troll.

[@Ludwig1625]

I know, that little theme besides the horns is actually beautiful

[@simplytwosetter]

Twoset University Lesson started NOW!! Can't wait to see what awesome classical music knowledge Prof Yang and Prof Chen prepared!!

[@TwoSetPlaylists]

Perfectly timed Duolingo ad instead of Haydn's jumpscare

[@eliter7991]

7:10 - Ah, yes, please, forgive me, Mozart, for not being born a prodigy!

[@celloplaysmusic7330]

Even if you're not born prodigy you could still be great

[@hindemith1922]

This could be a series. Hindemith wrote some funny pieces too, like a string quartet titled 'Minimax' and of course his famous 'The Flying Dutchman Overture as Sight-Read by a Bad Spa Orchestra'

[@FlamingCockatiel]

I just listened to the second one. Good recommendation.

[@massivepanda8692]

0:13 I think I know some classical musicians who are actually pretty funny people 👀

[@rudlodh78]

The "farewell" piece by Haydn reminds me of a middle school piece I watched called "clarinets packing up early". Same motif each time, but as it went on it was faster and faster, and the clarinets would remove parts from the clarinet every time. At the end, they picked up their cases and walked out. Brilliant performance, it will always be in my head. (note- when clarinets remove their barrel too, (piece below the mouthpiece) there's virtually no way to control the sound.)

[@superqwat8618]

Mozart's Don Giovanni has a part where musicians are playing a part from his other earlier opera, and the people are commenting on it in scene. I find it hilarious.

[@Mondkreischer]

damn, easter eggs in operas

[@Cloxxki]

TwoSet" challenge for you. Each work with a composer to write a piece for the other to play. Totally going after all the aspects that are furthest from mastery. Or frustrate the hell out of them. Remind of most hated piece. Troll the heck out of each other writing it, but still make it sound like a genuine piece to people who fail to see the personal context.

[@cz5981]

this is genuinely hilarious and makes me so so happy. i love these composers

[@CMO1996]

Berlioz composed a « Amen » fugue in « La Damnation de Faust » just for trolling bad church composers. But this fugue is so daaaaaaamn good that it is for me one of the peaks of all the piece

[@gracejenkins2764]

I know other people have commented comments like this, but I just want to say again that the range of content that TwoSet makes in incredible! Keep it coming!

[@TwoSetPlaylists]

The playlist of examples for this episode is up on the playlist channel (click logo on the left and go to first entry on playlist tab). Have a relaxing weekend everyone with a great soundtrack hand-picked by Brett, Eddy & team! 0:40 1. Haydn - 'Surprise' Symphony No. 94, II. Andante 1:59 Bonus: Stravinsky, Firebird SCREAM 2:12 2. Haydn - Symphony No. 60 'Il Distratto' ('The Inattentive/Forgetful') 3:39 3. Haydn - 'Farewell' Symphony No. 45, IV. Finale 5:44 4. Mozart - 'Come Scoglio' from Così Fan Tutte ('Like a rock') 7:00 5. Mozart - Ein Musikalischer Spaß (A Musical Joke), K. 522 9:34 6. Rossini - Duetto buffo di due gatti (Cat Duet)

[@jagp135]

Shostakovich's 9th symphony was a massive troll to Stalin, a huge chad move.

[@therese6165]

i like how dramatic the opening sounded

[@oxigen5438]

2:32 Trump conducting??

[@hannapak]

A good modern take on this is the Canival of Venus-- a spoof on the famous trumpet Canival of Venice that only the composer (Alan visutti) is able to play! techically a BEAST and the only piece that made me laugh out loud!

[@FrodosBeutel]

10:24 at least Brett could live out your dream Eddy

[@alondrie4366]

My teacher told me that the story was that Rossini was playing on his piano and his kitten lay down to listen to the music, it is said that he based the duet on a day when another cat came in trying to woo her cat and composed the music based in their interactions

[@silver.haze33]

people going to hayden’s concert: i wonder why they named it surprise? also them: *oh-*

[@valentinkovshik]

0:45 Is that an advanced version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"?

[@waxerstarwarsexplained550]

NEIN NN OF COURSE NOTTTT. The more advanced are mozarts variations 12 of them actually

[@waxerstarwarsexplained550]

2:19 Pastoral: Am ich a joke to you

[@stjevena]

Funny thing about the cat duet, I´ve sung it before and it is really fun to play it out on stage and also really fun when the audience understands what you are playing. It is a piece that you can really take to the extreme.

[@tomgates3250]

For the Hayn surprise one, in german it's called "Sinfonie mit dem Paukenschlag" which roughly translates to Symphony with the timpany blow/bang

[@MelanaC]

Wow….I’ve been at rehearsals that have gone 30-40 mins overtime! We would *never* leave before the end! The conductor would look at the clock and say ‘ok we have time for one more run-through so let’s give it a go’ I can’t imagine leaving midway through a piece! Whoa….

[@simplytwosetter]

The H in Haydn stands for Hilarious; The M in Mozart stands for Mocking; The R in Rossini stands for, uhm, random cat meow? (can't come up with a good one now, any idea? lol)

[@melodywawichi802]

R for Really?

[@simplytwosetter]

@@melodywawichi802 Nice one!

[@dpainter1526]

How about "Ridiculous"?🐱

[@aminalesbekova7953]

oh my god i ACTUALLY heard the cat duet where the singers were wearing the ears and god i wish they recorded it CUZ IT WAS SO FUNNY

[@composerjalen]

My favourite musical troll piece is by Satie, Les Embryons Desseche, because it makes fun of the absurdly grandiose V I cadences in... certain symphonies

[@oxoelfoxo]

checking it out, thanks!

[@oxoelfoxo]

checking it out, thanks!

[@RetiredBrass]

Another one by Satie, Vexations, must be a troll piece too, right?

[@sena-gw6fj]

that'd be so good if you guys make a video where one of you will play the first note of the piece and other will try to guess and everytime he can't guess the player adds a note and play again, to see who will recognize the piece with less notes btw really enjoy your vids

[@curio_sphere]

The have a pretty old video where they guess a symphony playing JUST the first note you should go watch it! They are really good at guessing too, might not need more than one note.

[@davikersulks9525]

agree, you can easily see the songs of mozart, as they have a joking tone, classical music is amazing, for many reasons but the main thing is that ''if you can play slow you can play fast''