# Classical Music - Help Me Identify This Song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349 "2005-01-06T05:42:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![larsenmtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@larsenmtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/larsenmtl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/1 "2005-01-06T05:42:02Z")
My [2-month old son](http://www.larsen.is-a-geek.com) loves [this mirror](https://www.babyeinstein.com/Store/ProductDetail.asp?ProductID=156&CurrentPage=1&Grouping=&ThemeID=0&AgeRangeID=0&ProductTypeID=0&IsOnSale=0&ProductQuery=mirro) from the Baby Einstein company. In paticular, the song linked below can make him smile and laugh through the loudest of screams. Can someone identify it for me (I’m guessing Mozart) so that I can get it on CD? Sorry for the poor quality but I recorded this directly off the toy. [http://home.comcast.net/~larsenmtl/musicsample.mp3](http://home.comcast.net/~larsenmtl/musicsample.mp3) Little Nathan thanks you! ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/2 "2005-01-06T05:47:39Z")
The URL with the MP3 isn’t working for me. ---
**Author:** ![larsenmtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@larsenmtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/larsenmtl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/3 "2005-01-06T05:53:36Z")
Really? Do you get a 404 error. Strange. Try this one --\> [http://www.larsen.is-a-geek.com/music.html](http://www.larsen.is-a-geek.com/music.html) ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/4 "2005-01-06T06:00:24Z")
That one worked. It’s not familiar to me, though. Pretty piece. It _does_ sound like Mozart. ---
**Author:** ![FlippyFly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FlippyFly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlippyFly)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/5 "2005-01-06T06:21:48Z")
well, acording to the link, it’s either going to be Vivaldi, Bach & Mozart. I couldn’t identify it, but I bet if you email the company they could tell you. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/6 "2005-01-06T06:24:06Z")
It’s Mozart’s “Sonata Facile”, the Sonata in C, K545 First movement, actually. Often used as “Granny Music” in Tweety and Sylvester, etc. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/7 "2005-01-06T06:41:28Z")
Here is a [midi](http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/music/occidetalmusic/classical/musicalform/musicalworks/audio/mozart/mozk545a.mid) starting from the beginning, I’m sure you’ll recognize the first theme… ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/8 "2005-01-06T06:58:34Z")
Wow, that baby-mirror version sure is slowed down quite a bit from the original piece, isn’t it? (Enough to make it hard for me to recognize, anyway.) So, **K364** , should I assume that you’ve named yourself after Mozart’s _Sinfonia Concertante_? You got any recommended recordings? Perhaps I’ll expose myself as a philistine, but some years ago I bought the Perlman/Zuckerman performance and found that I didn’t much care for it, even though the CD came with all sorts of glowing reviews. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/9 "2005-01-06T14:23:13Z")
Let’s see if the artsy types over in Cafe Society can help you. Off to Cafe Society. **DrMatrix** - GQ Moderator ---
**Author:** ![larsenmtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@larsenmtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/larsenmtl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/10 "2005-01-06T14:59:03Z")
Thanks **K364**. Good ear. ---
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/11 "2005-01-06T15:36:45Z")
The [ThemeFinder](http://www.themefinder.com/) is a great resource for this kind of thing (and give you the same answer that **K364** gave.) ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-help-me-identify-this-song/283349/12 "2005-01-09T17:37:49Z")
> [@Earthling](#): > > …So, **K364** , should I assume that you’ve named yourself after Mozart’s _Sinfonia Concertante_? You got any recommended recordings? Perhaps I’ll expose myself as a philistine, but some years ago I bought the Perlman/Zuckerman performance and found that I didn’t much care for it, even though the CD came with all sorts of glowing reviews. I totally agree regarding Perlman/Zuckerman, they try to do too much with the music… wringing every drop of _meaning_ out of it. the second movement is left as a soggy mess on the floor! For Mozart, Haydn and even Beethoven, Schubert I prefer the central Europeans as opposed to Americans, English and Russians. These Germans/Dutch/Czechs have a more impersonal approach and let Mozart do the talking. For the Sinfonia Concertante, K364 I like Karl Bohm with the Berlin Phil. on DGG with two Principals from the Orchestra: Brandis, Cappone.