Popular classic
Popular classical refers to a genre of popular music . Popular classical music includes melodies from serious music , which are widely known through their use at popular music events , request concerts, as marching music , as background music in supermarkets, in commercials and as telephone ring tones .
Popular classical music can also be found on numerous sampler CDs ("Best of ...", "The most beautiful melodies of ..."). Often these are compilations of old recordings from the archives of the record companies that are of little historical significance.
It is characteristic of popular classical music that individual, well-known pieces, parts or movements of classical compositions are torn out of their context and presented in isolation, whereby artistic aspects such as interpretation or faithfulness to the work are mostly neglected. It is not uncommon for the original work to be altered, for example through a new arrangement or (re) instrumentation, shortening or compilation into potpourris .
Performers of popular classical music often play new compositions with catchy melodies that imitate classical music in the style. Some groups like Rondò Veneziano , a project by the Italian composer Gian Piero Reverberi with a pseudo- baroque orchestra and modern rhythm section, only play such new compositions.
Jazz interpretations of classical works, e.g. B. the Bach interpretations of the French pianist Jacques Loussier , or experimental electronic versions such as that of Walter / Wendy Carlos transform the models creatively and playfully and can therefore only be classified as part of popular classical music to a limited extent, the arrangements of which are mostly guided by commercial aspects .
Popular templates
The following works are often used as templates for popular classical music:
- Air from the 3rd orchestral suite by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Album sheet “ Für Elise ” by Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1st movement of the Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven
- The fourth movement, Ode to Joy, in the 9th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Habanera and Auf, in den Kampf, Torero , aria from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet
- Minuet in A major from the String Quintet Op. 11/5 by Luigi Boccherini
- Prelude from Te Deum , known as Eurovision Melody , by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- English horn solo in the largo of the 9th symphony “From the New World” by Antonín Dvořák
- Humoresque Op. 101 No. 7 by Antonín Dvořák
- Ave Maria by Charles Gounod , based on a prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 from the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms
- Anitras Tanz , In the Hall of the Mountain King and Morning Mood from the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg
- Hallelujah from the oratorio Messiah by Georg Friedrich Handel
- Ombra mai fu , usually just called Largo , aria from the opera Xerxes by Georg Friedrich Handel
- 1st movement from A Little Night Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1st movement of the Symphony No. 40 in G minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Galop infernal ( Cancan ) from the operetta Orpheus in der Unterwelt by Jacques Offenbach
- Schöne Nacht, du Liebesnacht ( Barcarole ) from the opera Hoffmanns Tales by Jacques Offenbach
- Fortuna imperatrix mundi , beginning of the Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
- Boléro , orchestral work by Maurice Ravel
- Gymnopédie No. 1 by Erik Satie
- Ave Maria by Franz Schubert
- Dreaming Op. 15 No. 7 by Robert Schumann
- Many pieces from the Nutcracker and Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
- Prisoner's choir from the opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi
- Drinking song ( Brindisi ) from the opera La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
- La donna è mobile (German O as so deceptive ), aria from the opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi
- Nessun dorma from the opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini
- various movements from the violin concertos The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
- Faithful performed , bridal song from the opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
- Valkyrie ride from the opera Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
- Sunrise from Thus Spoke Zarathustra Op. 30 No. 1 by Richard Strauss
- Wedding march from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Canon and Gigue in D major by Johann Pachelbel
- Saber dance by Aram Khachaturian
- Overture to the opera Wilhelm Tell by Gioachino Rossini
- The Vltava from My Fatherland by Bedřich Smetana
- The orchestral interlude Hummelflug from the opera Das Märchen vom Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow
Performers
Well-known performers of popular classical music are:
- Richard Clayderman
- James Last
- Liberace
- Klaus Nomi
- André Rieu
- Waldo de los Ríos
- Swingle Singers
- Helmut Zacharias
- Rondò Veneziano
- Vanessa-Mae
- David Garrett
- Marek & Vacek
- Yiruma
See also: Easy Listening
literature
- Nina Polaschegg: Popular Classics - Classics Popular. Listener structures and distribution media in transition. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005