What is the best known music piece by the least known composer?

Started by Martinus, October 19, 2015, 09:51:03 AM

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Martinus

October 19, 2015, 09:51:03 AM
If "Nm" was the number of people who know (ie have heard and can recognise as familiar) a particular music piece and "Nc" was the number of people who know (ie can mention the name) of a composer of that piece, which music piece would have the highest value for the "Nm/Nc" equation?

I would nominate the "Flower Duet" from "Lakme" by Delibes. 

Syt

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October 19, 2015, 09:56:46 AM
Francisco Tárrega's Gran Valse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3huwi5gxixE
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Eddie Teach

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October 19, 2015, 10:07:09 AM
Pachelbel is pretty well known I think.

I'd guess it's something from a movie soundtrack.
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garbon

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October 19, 2015, 10:10:17 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 19, 2015, 10:07:09 AM
Pachelbel is pretty well known I think.

Yeah, I mean often that song is referred to as 'Pachelbel's Canon' :D
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#6
October 19, 2015, 10:24:50 AM
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Brazen

#7
October 19, 2015, 10:26:41 AM
Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Brazen

#8
October 19, 2015, 10:27:48 AM
Night On A Bald (Bare) Mountain by Mussorgsky.

Maladict

#9
October 19, 2015, 10:29:42 AM
The Champions League theme.

Martinus

#10
October 19, 2015, 10:54:36 AM
Quote from: Brazen on October 19, 2015, 10:27:48 AM
Night On A Bald (Bare) Mountain by Mussorgsky.

Mussorgsky is a known name though.

Martinus

#11
October 19, 2015, 10:55:12 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 19, 2015, 10:10:17 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 19, 2015, 10:07:09 AM
Pachelbel is pretty well known I think.

Yeah, I mean often that song is referred to as 'Pachelbel's Canon' :D

Well, I have never heard the name before.  :blush:

Zanza

#12
October 19, 2015, 11:03:16 AM
Quote from: Maladict on October 19, 2015, 10:29:42 AM
The Champions League theme.
Händel is a very well-known composer. I guess most people don't make the connection.

Eddie Teach

#13
October 19, 2015, 11:05:50 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 19, 2015, 10:24:50 AM
Jheronimus Vinders - Lamentatio super morte Josquin des Pres

This one checks both boxes for me. Familiar music, never heard of the composer.
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