# Classical music question: My Brother’s Band (film)

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**Created:** [June 4, 2025, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-question-my-brother-s-band-film/1019191 "2025-06-04T10:49:00Z")\
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Saw this recently at a French Film Festival and enjoyed it very much. I’d like to know the titles of all the classical pieces played in the film, especially the opening piece in the official trailer:

[https://youtu.be/dvT2Cd8bq0U?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/dvT2Cd8bq0U?feature=shared)

but IMDB only mentions one Mozart concerto and that isn’t it. I’m sure someone here will be able to quickly identify that piece, but there were at least three beautiful pieces played (before Bolero at the end).

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**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)\
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It’s Beethoven (5th Symphony, judging by the dit-dit-dit-dah rhythmic pattern, but I may be mistaken and don’t feel like checking all the possibilities!)

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At the start, it’s Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture” (a terrific piece)  
At 1:14 not sure, 1:25 is Rossini’s Barber of Seville Overture.  
1:45 not sure  
There’s Bolero at the end?

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At 1:40 is a modified version of a passage in Mozart, Overture to the Magic Flute (Zauberflöte). See for instance [this performance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKE7yrm0EP4) at 1:09.

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On the [French Wikipedia page for the movie](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_fanfare#Musique) there is a longer list of pieces from the film.

> - _Quadrature I_ et _II_, musique originale composée par [Michel Petrossian](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Petrossian)
> - Le [concerto pour piano no 23](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_pour_piano_no_23_de_Mozart) de [Mozart](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart)
> - La [symphonie nº 39](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_no_39_de_Mozart) de [Mozart](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart)
> - Le _[Boléro](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol%C3%A9ro_(Ravel))_ de [Ravel](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ravel)
> - [La marche triomphale](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida#La_Marche_des_trompettes) d’_[Aida](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida)_ de [Verdi](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi)
> - _[I Remember Clifford](https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I_Remember_Clifford&action=edit&redlink=1) [(en)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Remember_Clifford_(song))_ par [Benny Golson](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Golson) et par [Lee Morgan](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Morgan)
> - _[Emmenez-moi](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmenez-moi_(chanson))_ de [Charles Aznavour](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Aznavour)
> - _[When the Saints Go Marching In](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In)_, [negro spiritual](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_spiritual) traditionnel
> - L’ouverture des _[Hébrides](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_H%C3%A9brides_(Mendelssohn))_ de [Mendelssohn](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn)
> - L’ouverture d’_[Egmont](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egmont_(Beethoven))_ de [Beethoven](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven)
> - La [symphonie no 3](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_no_3_de_Mahler) de [Mahler](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler)
> - _[Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9lude_%C3%A0_l%27Apr%C3%A8s-midi_d%27un_faune)_ de [Claude Debussy](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy)
> - _[Monday, Tuesday… Laissez-moi danser](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday,_Tuesday..._Laissez-moi_danser)_ de [Dalida](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalida)

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Perfect! Thank you very much.

Should have clarified for others - the Bolero piece is at the end of the _movie_, not the end of the _trailer_.

I need to sharpen up my search skills, as well as _ma Française_… 🙂