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How Some Classical Music Pieces Got Their Names
The name by which a piece of music is known was not always given to it by its composer.
Here are a few examples of how some classical music pieces got their names. 1. The Goldberg Variations by J S Bach were written for a patron called Goldberg, who suffered from insomnia, and he wanted a pleasant piece of music for his harpsichord player to play for him through the night. 2. The Jupiter Symphony by Mozart is the name given to his Symphony No. 41 by an unknown 19th century impresario. The name comes from the ancient Roman god, not from the planet. 3. The Razor String Quartet by Haydn is so called because the aristocrat he wrote it for sent him a set of razors when he received the music. 4. Another one by Haydn. The Hen Symphony by Haydn got its name because the French audience that heard it first thought the repeated notes of the oboes sounded like a chicken. So its more correct name is "La Poule." 5. OK then, yet another one by Haydn! The Miracle Symphony got its name because during the interval of the concert in which it was first played, a huge and heavy chandelier fell from the ceiling and smashed on the floor in a spot where a large crowd of people had been standing only seconds before. Miraculously, no-one was injured. 6. The Unfinished Symphony by Schubert is a great masterpiece but it only has two movements rather than the customary three or four. Many people think that Schubert died while he was writing it, but this is not the case, since he wrote many other things after it, including a complete other symphony, often called the Great Symphony. One theory is that he was composing the unfinished when some friends came around and invited him to go to the pub. When he got back, he just was not inspired any more, or he was bored, and then later he just forgot about it. 7. The Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven is often named The Ninth. Yes that is still a number, but when it is applied to that symphony it becomes like a name. Many other composers have a ninth symphony in their list of works, but when you talk about The Ninth everyone knows you mean Beethoven's Ninth. |
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