2007-10-07 07:14:31 · 6 answers · asked by jen 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
This is becoming a bit of an urban myth! :-))
"O Fortuna" is a movement (it opens and closes the entire piece) from Carl Orff's cantata "Carmina Burana". Mozart simply doesn't come into it. (Given how often Mozart manages to get mentioned in relation to the piece, it does make you wonder how the story actually got started...
2007-10-07 08:12:22 · answer #1 · answered by CubCur 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In support of the above poster's (Glinzek's) statement, I believe he's right in thinking that the confusion as to the composers of various melodies (like O' Fortuna, which is not Mozart at all, but Carl Orff) comes from file sharing utilities where people accidentally, or maybe deliberately, mislabel their music. You should see all the songs that are misattributed to Weird Al Yankovich, for instance. Any spoof song, and people automatically slap his name on it.
2007-10-08 23:04:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think I have solved this particular mystery:
My boss has a Limewire account, and I asked him if he would download "O Fortuna" for me. If you don't know, Limewire is a "file sharing" site (read that "file stealing").
Any way, the request returned about 20 different files, including one erroneously attributing it to Mozart. (There was also a "remix" version which was so bad it brought tears to my eyes)
So the Limewire users out there are getting bad info, basically because the folks supplying the files are -- shalll we say -- factually challenged?
Hey, it's not limited to Orff. We had somebody in the forum lsast week whose friend told her that Delibes "Lakme" was from a Mozart symphony.
2007-10-07 18:00:20 · answer #3 · answered by glinzek 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sigh.
I shouldn't be amazed that, even with an incorrect file label, people can't recognized that "O Fortuna" sounds NOTHING like Mozart. Just listen to the orchestration! How many Mozart pieces do you know that open with a big tam-tam?
2007-10-11 12:58:27 · answer #4 · answered by Edik 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hadn't heard this 'urban myth'. But the piece is not by Mozart and most definitely not from a symphony of his - he didn't write any that had words in them. The piece is by Carl Orff from Carmina Burana.
2007-10-07 17:27:20 · answer #5 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LMAO.
2007-10-08 10:30:23 · answer #6 · answered by sting 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋