How's it going?
Welcome back to another episode of TwoSet Violin!
Today, we're going to be playing another musical game.
This game is called...
We all know composers by their famous and great works.
Often, their first compositions sound nothing like their later style,
so we wanna see if we can guess.
This will be interesting!
Also little disclaimer/technicality:
- Some of the pieces are just the first documented... compositions. - Oh, okay.
'Cause you never know.
- Like, maybe they wrote something and then like, just... - Yes.
- It never got published, right? - Yeah.
Number 1!
This...
This could be anyone!
- This could be anyone! - (Eddy) Sounds like... sounds like someone.
I got a composer in my head, but I don't think it's this composer.
I don't know, anyone Classical or before.
I thought Clementi.
I don't know. My first thought was Mozart,
but then I thought Boccherini,
and then I thought maybe even like, Bach.
Bach!
Didn't Bach write like, a minuet?
Yeah, Mozart.
- Ah, it's Mozart... Mozart. - Feels Mozart. Mozart, right?
- Yeah! Nice, nice, nice. - Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was like, "That melody has to be Mozart."
Five years old!
You can see he had a gift for melody.
Oh, you can tell straight away.
This was back in the day.
There's no such thing as Internet.
There's no information around the place.
That's impressive.
Bach.
- I say... I wrote Bach. - Yeah, Bach.
- I think so... - The beginning was a bit sus.
Yeah, the beginning sounded weird, right?
- But then once the counterpoint came in... - It started, it came in.
But the beginning, I was just like...
*Singing the beginning of the piece*
There's like a random like, bass note out of nowhere,
- you know what I mean? Like... - Yeah.
- But then the counterpoint's good. - Yeah.
- Yeah, Bach. - Yeah.
- He probably judged himself too much, to be honest. - (Eddy) Yeah.
But you can hear the counterpoint was immaculate.
Number 3!
(Brett) Ooh...
Why does it sound so jazzy though?
It's jazzier than I expected.
Woah!
I like this piece...
- Okay, okay... - Alright, I think I know.
Shostakovich?
Ooh, I thought that, but I think Prokofiev.
- Agh, I was tossing up between the two! - Yeah.
I actually- I don't know, though.
- I don't know. - But the jazz does make it feel like
- it might be more like Prokofiev. - Mmm!
It sounds a bit more on the Neo-Classical side.
- That's why I guess Prokofiev, but I'm not sure. - [Inaudible] Let's see.
Ah, you're right!
Aiyah!
- Let's go! - Damn!
I think the cool thing about it is like,
with his earlier Neo-Classical, if you listen to just the melody,
it sounds like it could be a classical piece.
Without the left hand harmonies, right?
- But you add the harmony, it doesn't sound classical. - Yeah, it just changes the whole thing.
Yeah.
- Genius. - So good.
Let's go, number 4!
- There's more than one Baroque composer? - Yeah! Hahaha!
Oh!
Oh, this isn't a harpsichord!
This is a...
- Clavichord? - Clavier, I think it's a clavier.
Okay.
Handel?
I actually don't know.
I guessed Beethoven.
- I just thought [the] clavichord is around Beethoven's time. - Maybe! Yeah, maybe that's a good deduct[ion].
Oh, you got it!
Holy moly!
- Woo! - "Nine Variations on a March by Dressler"...
Eleven years old, wow.
Bro...
Guys, if you're watching this video right now,
there's a reason why we all know these composers.
Let's just say that again. Like...
These composers are here for eternity.
That's insane.
Oh!
I don't know opera.
Ahh...
Oh...!
I wrote Schubert.
I think Debussy, actually.
- Rea... I wrote Ravel, then Schubert. - Oh really?
But I went backwards...
- Mmm! - Really, Debussy?
'Cause it's... I think it's French, right?
- I wasn't paying attention. - I was listening to lyrics.
Ahhhhhhhhh!
Of course!
Ohhh no, you're right!
- Ohhhhh! - Five out of five, let's go!
Oh, damn it. Okay, you're right.
The left hand made me [think] it was Ravel.
But you probably just thought Schubert wrote songs.
Yeah, I just wrote...! Yeah!
- Ravel wouldn't...! - "But it's a song, Ravel doesn't write songs!"
- But Debussy writes songs. - Yeah... of course!
So duh!
Alright, apparently from now on, it's multiple choice.
- It's gonna get harder. - Okay, okay.
Well, I already f-ed up pretty...
'Kay...
Okay, it's just like...
Chopin, Liszt or something.
Liszt...
Oh, but now you're giving me these options, it's doing my head in.
Yeah, I don't know!
- Can I listen to it again? - Yeah.
I think it's...
Liszt.
I might be getting fooled, because it's a piano.
*Attempting to sing the beginning of the piece*
The bass is also pretty heavy as well...
I actually don't know, I'm not a pianist.
I... put Liszt,
even though it feels very not flashy for Liszt, though.
Maybe Liszt was just warming up.
'Cause this is... it is on the easy spectrum for Liszt.
- Oh! Woo! - Yes! Woo hoo hoo!
Nah, I was right.
I don't even need the...
Don't even give me the clues, man!
You're tripping me out!
He wrote it...
...because of his piano teacher...
- (Brett) Eleven? - He was eleven!
Okay, that sounds... Okay, fair enough.
Yeah, he's just warming up!
Told you!
- No way... - Can you imagine you're the teacher,
and this kid just rocks up, writes a whole variation?
I mean, if you compare it to the
Beethoven when he was 11 too, it's like...
- This one's a lot more technically... virtuosic already. - Yeah, more, yep.
- Yeah. - For an eleven-year-old, right?
Why does it sound like "Pirates of the Caribbean" like...
was inspired by this?
Okay, I was way off,
so, good to see these options.
I didn't even try to guess, I wasn't sure.
It's not Prokofiev.
- I feel like it's Rimsky. - I was thinking Rimsky.
- I... - It's not Shostakovich.
Rimsky or Rach.
- I'm just gonna be different to you and go Rach. - Okay.
- I don't know. - But let's see.
- Oh, you got it right! - Ooh!
What a fluke!
- "Sergei Rachmaninoff's earliest surviving composition for orchestra"... - (Eddy) Fourteen, no way...!
Wow!
- You know Rach's Symphonic Dances? - Uh huh.
That also sounds a bit like "Pirates of the Caribbean".
- Maybe. Maybe subconsciously I thought that. - Maybe that's why.
- Maybe. Maybe subconsciously I thought that. - Maybe it has... that's the connection there!
"Pirates of the Caribbean"!
Is this gonna be a song?
Oh!
Oh, bro...
Oh! Who wrote this?
Those...
- Chords, right? - Yeah. That's...
I know, it sounds familiar.
Yeah, nah...
This is very obvious to me.
- Okay. - What'd you have?
F***, none of them.
Hehehe...
Is it Mahler?
- Has to be Mahler. - No comment...
Shostakovich, I think.
What the f***?!
I actually thought Mahler, then I went to Brahms.
Don't know why I went to Brahms.
How's that Mahler?!
- Woo! - It's Shostakovich, bro!
Dude, it literally sounds...
I mean, it sounded...
- Yeah, yeah... - It sounds the same as his First...
...Violin Concerto.
Nah, nah, nah, this is a frickin' trick.
I wouldn't have guessed this was Mahler anyway,
- 'cause I thought Mahler only frickin' wrote symphonies, and songs. - Symphonies.
And he didn't even finish it!
That's probably why, that's really interesting.
Oh it sounds so be beautiful, imagine his other...
- He should've wrote more! - Bro! I wanna play Mahler quartets!
Oh, Mahler!
Why? Why did you just leave us with symphonies?!
We need quartets as well!
- Actually, it sounded really epic, yeah. - I liked it.
- I was like, "I would play that." - I would play it too, yeah, dude!
Oh!
(Brett) Yeah.
Ooh, it sounds familiar.
Interesting.
Okay, I think I know.
I don't know, but I want to skip through a bit more.
I feel like...it's Saint-Saëns.
Same, I thought it sounds like Saint-Saëns.
- 'Cause it's the concerto, right? - Mmm.
And a lot of pieces Saint-Saëns [wrote], it's always...
- Yeah, I thought that as well! Yeah. - That kind of vibe,
- it's never...it's not as heavy as Brahms, or Mahler. - Let's see.
Aghh!!!
You got pranked, bro!
That's not Brahms!
- That did not sound like Brahms though. - I didn't feel like it sounded like Brahms.
It sounded like Saint-Saëns.
I don't...imagine Brahms starting like...
Chopin?
Funeral March?
Yeah.
It's a bit heavy.
- Oh, Shostakovich. - What?!
Maybe for his first piece.
I want to go Shostakovich, just to be indie.
- But I was thinking maybe Chopin too. - Yeah.
Yeah, that's Shostakovich.
It is already depressed.
At the age of 5 he's already depressed.
- Yeah! - Yeah, let's go!
Whoa!
- (Brett) That's rough. - I take back my comments, I'm sorry Shostakovich.
- Yeah, I get it, I know. - I don't know what you've been through.
You're 11 years old as well,
sorry you have to go through that at 11 years old.
That's...that's heavy, man.
- Well no wonder, he is who he is, right? - I don't blame him, yeah,
'cause he lived through a very tough time.
Okay.
It's like Schubert, or something?
Can I just say, that's frickin' epic for a first composition.
Yeah, I know, we forget...yeah, this game's first composition.
- Who makes that as a first composition, bro?! - (Brett) Yeah, that's too messed up.
- Like that's a frickin' ep—like, full sonata right there. - Yeah.
- Okay. - Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn.
Mendelssohn, really?
- Dude, I have no idea, I don't know. - I'm going with Schubert.
I wanna listen a little bit again.
Oh!
- Dude, I don't know, I'm gonna go with Mendelssohn. - Mendelssohn? Yeah, sure, it could be Mendelssohn.
- Alright, you ready? 3, 2, 1. - Yeah.
Mendelssohn!
Bro! 11 years...!
Oh, man.
Mendelssohn's like, "Look, Mr. Zelter,
I can change the key in the first bar."
Oh my god.
- I couldn't even write something like that now! - Mmm, wow.
- I'm 30, bro's 11! - What...that's why you remember Mendelssohn!
And F major as well.
He's like, he wasn't messing around.
Okay.
Damn.
Okay, what are the choices?
Schubert!
I'm going with Schubert!
The one I was thinking of isn't there, so...
Maybe Chopin!
Nah, Schubert.
- I'll go with Schubert as well, I'll stick with Schubert. - Schubert or Chopin, okay, you ready?
3, 2, 1.
- Tchaikovsky, wow, I got... - No way, I thought Tchaik, but then I was like...
- "There's nothing in this that sounds like Tchaik." - Yeah, there's nothing.
Weirdly enough, I did think Tchaik for a split second.
He was on a holiday with his family.
♪ "I'm just here to kill some time." ♪
These days, people when they're 14, on their holiday,
kids are scrolling their phones, meanwhile back then,
- Tchaikovsky just casually writes a frickin' Anastasie-valse. - Yeah.
Okay.
Chopin.
I feel like the last few have been all like curveballs,
- so even though I think Chopin... - Dvořák!
- ...probably not Chopin. - Alright, I'm gonna go Dvořák!
- No, don't bro! You're gonna mess up! - Ultimate curveball!
Nah, I'm going Dvořák! Curveball, let's go!
- I think Chopin or Schumann. - Okay, I thought...
Oh, come on!
- Sorz, my bad. - You threw me off!
Polonaise! Oh, wow!
- Damn. - I mean, I knew it wasn't Dvořák.
- I just went full opposite. - Yeah, okay, okay, nice.
No [idea]...
English?
It's English.
- Elgar! - Elgar or Holst!
Elgar! Holst?
- Holst is English. - Yeah, maybe.
- Elgar. - Could be Verdi, man.
- Elgar, yeah. - Yeah, okay, good good good...
Oh, wow, finally back to some more normal stuff.
Last one.
That sounds so weird.
Okay.
- Bizet! It has to be Bizet! - Bizet, Bizet. Yep.
Could be Dvořák.
- Nah, Bizet. - Bizet.
I hate this game.
Why did you have to write a polka, Dvořák?!
That's so funny.
- I thought Bizet too, I just...I don't know why, yeah. - It has—it felt like a Bizet, yeah! It just wasn't Bizet,
'cause about Biz—nah, I'm joking.
Bizet wrote some good works.
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