Post on 05-Jan-2016
The Big Classical Music Pieces XI
Georges Bizet, France,Romantic opera composer, born 1838
“Habanera” by an opera singer on YouTube
(begins at :33)
Maria Callas sings it (1962) on YouTube (from 2:16)
The song as part of a staging of the opera (sound quality not so good)
An orange sings the song on Sesame Street (from 1:05 or so)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austria, Classical composer, born 1756
This is Mozart as a little boy.He was already writing music!
Mozart’s “Rondo Alla Turca” from Piano Sonata No. 11
Rachmaninoff plays it
Lars Roos plays it
A six-year-old girl plays it
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russia, Romantic composer, born 1839
Mussorgsky’s“Night on Bald Mountain”
An orchestra plays it
Another orchestra plays it
The scary segment from Fantasia (parents only—almost certainly too
scary for little kids)
The End