Mystery track!

[lukeottevanger]

I don't tend to be much of a thread starter, but seeing as we're all still in party mood  here's a clip I've been longing to test you all out on. Simple question: who's the composer?

[not edward]

You?

[lukeottevanger]

Why thank you. No.

[BachQ]

Bruckner

[knight66]

I am never any good at this sort of thing...it sounds like a song to me, Lehar?

Mike

[lukeottevanger]

D moll, you are not taking this seriously! (where's the police smiley gone?) 

Wouldn't it be perception changing if 'twas Bruckner, though? So think along those lines....

Mike - it's a solo piano piece. Carries on in this vein for a couple of minutes.

[knight66]

Right, I though perhaps you were making a transcription. No good really me guessing, if it was remotely obvious you would not have posted it and I need the at least remotely obvious.

Mike

[lukeottevanger]

No, obvious it isn't, I must admit.

[carlos]

Ernesto Lecuona?

[lukeottevanger]

Sensible suggestion. Too sensible 

[lukeottevanger]

Shall I take it that you all give up then?

[Joe Barron]

I'm going to take a wild stab and say Gottschalk.

[lukeottevanger]

No, sorry. Seem to have trapped you all in my carefully laid cage.

[not edward]

Which piece? I didn't recognize it at all.

[lukeottevanger]

Fads and Fancies in the Academy (from 1940, too) A movement called 'Reactionaries' (though it's only one of a few movements in such surprising stylistic garb) - apparently this one is facetiously notated in all sorts of irrelevant metres, however 

[not edward]

Ah...never heard the piece before.

I did think it was 20th century, if only because it sounded like reactionary music written by someone who liked Satie. I guess I was a lot closer than I realised.

[lukeottevanger]

reactionary music written by someone who liked Satie. I guess I was a lot closer than I realised.

You certainly were! Well done!

(This wasn't very fair of me, I know.    I just love the fact Cage wrote something of this sort, so, any old excuse to post it!)

[not edward]

Oh, definitely. I used to play similar tricks on people by playing snippets from Schnittke film soundtracks.

(And of course, there's that old standby, the slow movement of DSCH's 2nd piano concerto.)

[lukeottevanger]

Oh, definitely. I used to play similar tricks on people by playing snippets from Schnittke film soundtracks.

Yes, I have a Kancheli one like that...

(And of course, there's that old standby, the slow movement of DSCH's 2nd piano concerto.)

Well, that one's almost literally by Beethoven, of course (slow movement of PC5)!

[Brian]

Dang! I was going to say Granados