# Classical music from movie "Being There" (1979) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679 "2003-02-17T18:30:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ECJones29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@ECJones29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ECJones29)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679/1 "2003-02-17T18:30:10Z")
This one’s keeping me up at night! Under the main titles to “Being There,” Chance wakes up and turns the TV set on to a symphony orchestra playing the opening movement of a very famous classical piece. Everyone knows this music; it’s been featured in other movies and I know I know it, but cannot come up with it. It’s not mentioned in the closing credits; there’s no soundtrack for the movie, and exhaustive web searches and queries of classical music lovers among family and friends have yielded nothing. Title and composer anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679/2 "2003-02-17T19:16:11Z")
Always worth searching newsgroups as well as the web - according to Google Groups it’s Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony. ---
**Author:** ![ECJones29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@ECJones29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ECJones29)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679/3 "2003-02-18T02:31:37Z")
Thank you Usram; you’re right. If you are a fan of this movie, you know that everything Chance watches on TV has a connection to his character or the plot. Using Schubert’s 8th (The Unfinished) Symphony makes sense because Chance is an “unfinished” person. Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![Fierce\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fierce\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fierce_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679/4 "2011-12-31T16:33:15Z")
It’s Schubert’s 8th symphony. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679/5 "2011-12-31T16:40:27Z")
Did he finish it since the original answer? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679/6 "2012-01-01T01:10:40Z")
Odd - Schubert isn’t mentioned here: [Being There (1979) - Soundtracks - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/soundtrack) ---
**Author:** ![SFKidInMarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SFKidInMarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SFKidInMarin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679/7 "2021-07-27T02:25:05Z")
I feel like a time traveler who has gone back 18 years to 2003 to deliver technology from the future in 2021. I used something you won’t see for 5 years in a thing called the “App Store” it’s a technology that uses… well never mind the details. It’s a technology that identifies music and it confirmed it is “schubert 8th unfinished symphony” Anyways not much point in me telling you anything else about the future. You won’t believe anything I say after I tell you about the 2016 election, but trust me Bush actually wins in 04 if you could stop that it would be great Anyhoo I just heard The Great Kazoo say “Hello Dumb Dumb” time for me to say goodbye and NOT NOW KAZOOOOOOOOoooooooooo(poof) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679/8 "2021-07-27T06:01:18Z")
It’s now 2021, and that damn symphony is still unfinished (at least by Schubert). ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679/9 "2021-07-27T08:12:43Z")
It’s been [finished by various other people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._8_(Schubert)#Modern_completions) though. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-from-movie-being-there-1979/155679/10 "2021-07-27T08:37:21Z")
All together now: _This is the symphony - The symphony that Schubert never_