The Nokia ringtone is a musical phrase from a piece of solo guitar music by Francisco Tárrega, called Gran Vals from 1902.
Fur Elise.
Für. It’s German, For Elise. She’s not furry 😉
A lot of mobile keyboards will let you pick the umlaut version if you long-press a letter.
Will you Fürgive me?
How do you know Elise wasn’t a Fürry?
Also: who the fuck is Elise?
Always makes me think of the Commodore 64, but surely that isn’t why we know it these days?
It was the tone the buzzer played in a lot of apartment buildings around the 00s.
One time I was listening to classical music because I was in a mood. It was a Mozart piece. The piano player started playing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. At first I was like, “if bro is such a genius, why did he rip off Twinkle, Twinkle, Litt- oh, he wrote it.”
Love it lol.
Unbeknownst to me until a moment ago, the piece is Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman”, based on a French folk song.
I’m pretty sure it was a common folk tune at the time. WA Mozart loved to do “variations on” stuff that people already knew and enjoyed. I don’t believe he originated the tune
Wow I grew around classical music as my dad is huge into it and also loves Mozart, still TIL. Lol I probably should pay more attention to my dad.
Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky), The Planets (Holst), and Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner) are all pretty badass but often get used in movies, game trailers, even ads without being named.
Don’t forget Flight of the Bumblebee too!
Ill add Pachelbel’s Cannon in D as well.
Love it, but I feel like most people actually do know that one by name.
God, the planets inspired pretty much every goddamn sci fi soundtrack. Everyone gets the imperial march, but i’m talking right back before even Haskin’s War of the Worlds and Journey to the centre of the earth, past SW and wrath of khan and into Foundation.
O Fortuna, https://youtube.com/watch?v=GXFSK0ogeg4
C’mon, post the definitive version!
That’s wild
That’s remarkable. With the subtitles you can really hear it!
That’s from the 1930s. The original was just a poem, not music.
Mornin’ Ralph, mornin’ Sam
I read the last word wrong.
Also Sprach Zarathustra. (Thus Spake Zarathustra) very overused, but one of the greatest pieces of music in all of history.
Canon in D, used constantly in modern music and people usually don’t recognize it. If you don’t believe me go listen to Maroon 5’s Memories. I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t want to though…
Written by Pachelbel. Aka Pachelbel’s Canon
Yup came here to add this thanks
I also like the rock version
“La Donna è mobile” from Verdi’s Rigoletto. Have you seen a pasta sauce commercial? Then you’ve heard this aria.
You know Entry of the Gladiators, but you might not think of gladiators when you hear the song.
Everyone recognizes Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie no 1.
I feel like it was just used all over the place, subtly, all our lives. People can rarely name it. Everyone knows it.
Here’s a piano version as well
Barber of Seville if you’ve seen Looney Tunes: https://youtu.be/OloXRhesab0?si=AJ8fNilF8gVtpqsq
The flower duet. Used in countless movies: https://youtu.be/8Qx2lMaMsl8?feature=shared
If you know the slogan, “Come fly the friendly skies, you probably know Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin.
And it’s not classical, but the Wii store theme used to be a variation on Surfboard by Juan Garcia Esquivel
It is so cool hearing surfboard for the first time as I had no idea, until now, that the artist Daedalus sampled it in 2006 on his album: Daedalus Denies The Day’s Demise I instantly recognized it!
If you didn’t know, Denise The Day’s Demise was inspired by Brazil. and specifically the concept of Saudade.
Saudade: “a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament.”
It’s like I found a lost memory!