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

[frunk]

Oh, and because this is bugging me, you can pretty up your links with the insert hyperlink (the world with the file in front of it).  Just put the text between the open/close tags and the url inside the open tag:

[ url = http:/ /youtube.com ] My Link [ / url ]

Just remove spaces.

[mongers]

The 'Capriol Suite' by Warlock seems well know for something from a tragically short lived composer, sad but interesting life story, though his proper name escapes me at the moment.

[The Larch]

Has "In the hall of the mountain king" by Grieg been mentioned already?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIYT-MrVaI

[Eddie Teach]

Fucik is a great pick though. It's also a quintessential Austro-Hungarian military march as written by a Czech guy.

Sounds like circus music to me. 

[HisMajestyBOB]

Has "In the hall of the mountain king" by Grieg been mentioned already?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIYT-MrVaI

Selections from his Peer Gynt suite are pretty strong contenders, too, especially "Morning."

Actually, any composer whose work was used in Looney Tunes would count.

[Eddie Teach]

Grieg is another who is not a contender because the Nc variable is too high.

[Valmy]

Sounds like circus music to me. 

Thus apropos for the Austro-Hungarian military.

[celedhring]

Tomita's cover of Debussy's Arabesque no.1 was the theme for a rather peculiar kids show in Spain when I was very young, it's one of those songs that a whole generation has seared in their brains and probably don't know the name or author.

Planeta Imaginario 

And yeah, I didn't know the name or the author.

[The Larch]

Tomita's cover of Debussy's Arabesque no.1 was the theme for a rather peculiar kids show in Spain when I was very young, it's one of those songs that a whole generation has seared in their brains and probably don't know the name or author.

Planeta Imaginario 

And yeah, I didn't know the name or the author.

That was one trippy show.  Spanish 80s kid television programming must have been ran on acid, for that and La bola de cristal to be their main shows.

[Martinus]

Grieg is another who is not a contender because the Nc variable is too high.

Yeah, I thought so too.

I guess we should clarify that this is not about "a known piece by a known composer where people do not know the connection" - but "a known piece but an unknown composer".

[Liep]

Question: Is this piece known outside of Denmark? Champagne Galop. If so I think it would qualify.

[The Brain]

Grieg is another who is not a contender because the Nc variable is too high.

Yeah, I thought so too.

I guess we should clarify that this is not about "a known piece by a known composer where people do not know the connection" - but "a known piece but an unknown composer".

If the composer is unknown then the ratio is undefined.

[Martinus]

I don't think there is a single composer whose name is not known by at least one person - so you are always at least dividing by 1.

[The Brain]

I don't think there is a single composer whose name is not known by at least one person - so you are always at least dividing by 1.

An interesting claim. Let me just delete all my traditional music.