Your Favorite Fabulous First Bars Of Your Favorite Fifth?
I’m guessing Beethoven’s or Mendelssohn’s will win out in this quirky quiz contest. Still, this should be interesting fun. Just remember, I said first five bars.
My choice? Mahler’s Fifth, with it’s soulful solo trumpet opening the funeral march style of the first movement.
Ah, yes, Petr! The Emperor with it’s wham, bam, ‘thank you orchestra now get out of my way’ intro which, undoubtedly, later influenced Tchaikovsky’s First.
DF, we all realize the complete composition is what matters. When I post ‘questions’ like this it’s for fun and not intended to be a serious discourse on the merits of Boccherini vs. Gluck vs. Paganini vs. Janacek vs. Elgar. Some First Five Bars, you must admit, grab the imagination and remain far more memorable to the average psychic then the glorious complete work of, say, Mahler’s First or Sibelius’ Finlandia.
A video for Alberich: It's not my own music but certainly my own verse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3FOnvwL9Vg
The Shosty 5 is a great call. The opening always reminded me of a soundtrack from a 40s horror film. The Neilson I know. Thank you for the introduction to the Honegger, Petr. I’ll play the whole thing through this weekend. And the Sibelius 1st. is a personal fav but, like the Bruckner, it’s not a 5th.
There are no wrong answers in a quiz like this and if it were up to me most of you would be sharing the ‘best’ answer. But we all know Yahoo isn’t democratic that way. So thank you all for playing along and this weekend expect several more fun type questions.