Popular based on Classics...

[Barbosa-piano]

WARNING: THIS THREAD IS STUPID.
 Hello, I just want to see what everybody else thinks... OK. The beautiful music we can find today (rare  )- Based on classical music? Today I was listening the 2nd movement of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto, and I was surprised. The theme on the 2nd movement is strikingly similar to the song "All by Myself". The structure, and even notes, were the same. This is clear on Charles Chaplin's "No Other Love", Chopin's Etude Op. 10 No. 3. And Brazilian music, Bossa Nova, has many structures and notes that resemble Rachmaninoff's music. Does anybody know of any other examples?

Thanks in advance,
Mario Barbosa.

[abell88]

An old song, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, based on Chopin (Fantasie-Impromptu, I think). There were a lot more in the 20s and 30s, I think, but don't know off hand.

[spirithorn]

There was one called " 'Till the End of Time", based on the main theme of Chopin's Ab Polonaise, Op. 53. 

[perfect_pitch]

Billy Joels - This Night.... based upon Beethovens Sonata Pathetique in c minor No. 6 I think Op 13 - 2nd Movement.

[will]

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_songs_based_on_classical_music
 

[Tash]

jeez talk about quite a list, and i doubt that's all of them. and they're all based on the same pieces!  talk about an overuse of the moonlight sonata

[ada]

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_songs_based_on_classical_music
 

Very interesting! especially Lennon's Because

[thalbergmad]

jeez talk about quite a list, and i doubt that's all of them. and they're all based on the same pieces!  talk about an overuse of the moonlight sonata

I have a very interesting version of the Moonlight Sonata by Dudley Moore.

Any Derek & Clive fans will know it.