The Big Classical Music Pieces XI. Georges Bizet, France, Romantic opera composer, born 1838.

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The Big Classical Music Pieces XI

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The Big Classical Music Pieces XI

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Georges Bizet, France,Romantic opera composer, born 1838

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Bizet’s “Habanera”from the opera Carmen

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“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)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austria, Classical composer, born 1756

This is Mozart as a little boy.He was already writing music!

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Mozart’s “Rondo Alla Turca” from Piano Sonata No. 11

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Rachmaninoff plays it

Lars Roos plays it

A six-year-old girl plays it

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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russia, Romantic composer, born 1839

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Mussorgsky’s“Night on Bald Mountain”

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An orchestra plays it

Another orchestra plays it

The scary segment from Fantasia (parents only—almost certainly too

scary for little kids)

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