Hi
Looking for the name and composer of a very well-know piece of classical music. I always associate it with spring. It’s continuous rising crescendo that reaches a wonderful flourish.
I look forward to your feedback.
Ravel: Bolero?
Vivaldi: Spring (from The Four Seasons)?
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending?
Something completely different from any of these?
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Any chance you could provide a link or clue to where you might have heard it?
I second Vivaldi’s Spring
I can be Rossini’s famous beginning of “The William Tell Overture.” “Call to the Cows” overused as the beginning of a beautiful spring or summer morning in classical cartoons.
Grieg—Morning from the Peer Gynt Suite, maybe?
Perhaps its Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King
Or maybe Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony.
5th movement?
Thank you. Grieg’s Morning Mood from Peer Gynt
Yeah, that’s what I was going to guess.
Everyone thinks of morning and spring when they hear this piece, but here’s what it was written for:
"The piece depicts the rising of the sun during act 4, scene 4, of Ibsen’s play, which finds Peer Gynt stranded in the Moroccan desert after his companions took his yacht and abandoned him there while he slept. The scene begins with the following description: “Dawn. Acacias and palm trees. Peer [Gynt] is sitting in his tree using a wrenched-off branch to defend himself against a group of monkeys.”
Outside chance Helios Overture, Carl Nielsen.
This video has been around for at least six years; if you haven’t seen it, it is utterly charming.
Members of the Copenhagen Philharmonic knocking out the Grieg in the city subway, flash mob style.
This one’s even older, but the same mob doing Ravel’s Bolero in the main Copenhagen Train Station
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gkster—curious about how the description you provide of the piece makes it not about morning? The spring part, I get, but what’s the conflict between the sun rising in North Africa and the stated name of the piece?
I think the point is that most people wouldn’t expect the part about fighting monkeys.
Don’t know about spring, but rising crescendo - Karelia Suite, Sibelius
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I always end up fighting monkeys if I wake up early enough to see the sun rise.