1. Victory and revenge. Symphony no. 5 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed in 1808, is also known as the Symphony of Victory. And the reason is simple: the four initial notes (sol-sol-sol-E flat) were used during the Second World War, as the opening of Radio London, as transcribed in
Morse code: dot-dot-dot-dash, gave the letter V for Victory. The sequence is also mentioned in the movie V for Vendetta, perhaps for the same reason.
2. But women do not. The German composer Felix Mendelssohn was a child prodigy, but not the only one in the family; his sister Fanny Mendelssohn was the same, and like his brother was a musician and composer. But she was not allowed to pursue his love for music, as a woman. It was the family to hinder it, and his brother Felix admitted that he published some of his compositions in their own name. An example? It was Fanny, "Italien", the song by Felix performed for Queen Victoria, who made it his favorite song (without knowing that it had been written by a woman).
3. The merits of cats. The escape in G minor by Domenico Scarlatti is popularly known as "Cat Run". The reason? Scarlatti would have been inspired by the melody created by Pulcinella, her cat, who was walking on the keyboard.
4.A Dog's Life. The fetishism of the rock star fan is not a phenomenon today. The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt was swamped with requests for strands of hair from his pen admirers, to the point that took a dog that was cutting small sections of hair, pretending that they were his.
5. Passion for poop. We all know that Mozart was a genius, but few know his passion for scatological humor and coprolalia: in other words, the cabinet humor and the excessive use of obscene expressions. In his letters, and even in several of his works are several jokes on human excrement. He shocked even an iron woman, Margaret Thatcher, who after attending a performance at the Amadeus by Peter Shaffer said he could not believe such a foul-mouthed version so the composer: "I think it is disgraceful for the National Theatre to see Mozart say these obscenity. A music composer so elegant and wonderful it is impossible that you talk like that. " And instead...
6. Mysteries. Symphony no. 8 in B minor by Franz Schubert is also known as the unfinished, because only the first two movements are complete and have been orchestrated by the author (the Allegro moderato and Andante con moto). Why? The assumptions are different. It could be an experiment, or was pessimistic: Schubert was convinced that she would never be carried out and abandoned. Some say it was the diagnosis of syphilis to throw into turmoil. But the most popular theory is another: the two complete movements of this symphony would such perfection itself, as sufficient to express what I wanted to convey Schubert. Therefore no final was necessary.
7. Hypochondriacs. The great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (or Tchaikovsky), author among others of The Nutcracker, was so hypochondriac to be held the chin with one hand, while directing his orchestra: asserted that if he let go of his head would fall. also he refused to drink what was not bottled for fear of contracting a disease. Ironically, in 1893 he was diagnosed with fulminant cholera and died after a few hours. Although in truth, there are those who disagree: the Soviet musicologist Alexandra Orlova argues for example that Tchaikovsky was forced to commit suicide with arsenic, by threatening to make public his homosexuality.
8. Suonare con gli elicotteri. Classica, contemporanea e sperimentale: la musica sinfonica riserva sorprese anche imprevedibili, come il quartetto per archi ed elicotteri (l'Helicopter String Quartet), composto nel 1993 da Karlheinz Stockhausen: 4 elicotteri si librano in volo, con 4 musicisti (due violini, una viola e un violoncello), che suonano in sincrono grazie a delle cuffie: il pubblico ascolta da terra il mix di archi e pale d'elicottero.
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