Was it Beethoven or some other famous composer?
2007-07-07 11:01:28 · 10 answers · asked by Barry O 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
Jacques Offenbach, from France. Interesting case: His dad was a Jewish Cantor who was appauled that his son Jacques composed for the light opera of Paris, which had girls kicking up their legs. Offenbach was desperately trying to show he was a legit composer, but do no one would recognize this...until he wrote his serious opera: The Tales of Hoffman. it is brilliant and beautiful, and cast him as a legit composer.
2007-07-07 12:25:12 · answer #1 · answered by Legandivori 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be careful who you call "wrong" Chameleon. The "Gallop" from Orpheus is the same thing as the cancan in both the operetta La Vie Parisienne AND the ballet Gaite Parisienne. Offenbach recycled his music over and over in all sorts of different combinations.. Another example is a Barcarolle from Les Contes d'Hoffmann that is a waltz in the ballet above and in a bunch of other things I can't remember.
Sort of like all those Gershwin and other pop songs that were used over and over in movies in the '30s and '40s.
2007-07-07 16:52:04 · answer #2 · answered by AlliOop 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Galop from Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld is the tune most associated with the can-can.
2007-07-07 11:04:49 · answer #3 · answered by a person 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Velvet Underground, whenever I put their s/t on I have to listen to it all the way through. A shitload of nostalgia are in the songs, plus, it has the songs Candy Says, What Goes On, Pale Blue Eyes, I'm Set Free which are all the best in my opinion. Since you posted lyrics, I shall: "I've been set free and I've been bound Let me tell you people what I found I saw my head laughing rolling on the ground" BQ: Yesh
2016-03-15 00:25:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jacques Offenbach, I just saw that in a book I bought for classical guitar, it's weird that now I see that question asked here, it's from the operetta "La Vie Parisienne".
2007-07-07 12:52:47 · answer #5 · answered by chessmaster1018 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The one who said Offenbach's 'La Vie Parisienne' is wrong.
It's Offenbach's 'Orpheus in the Underworld' and I can be sure of that because I have performed it.
2007-07-07 14:28:00 · answer #6 · answered by chameleon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Offenbach. He's simply genius!
2007-07-07 13:56:38 · answer #7 · answered by ♫Magali♫ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Offenbach. no it wasn't Beethoven.
2007-07-07 12:54:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree .... offenbach is known to use some musical stances again and again ...
2007-07-07 20:40:27 · answer #9 · answered by lukey7650 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2017-02-17 11:29:34 · answer #10 · answered by washington 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋