Weird names of pieces

[pianoplayjl]

I just want to know, what are some of the unconventional, weird and wacky names of pieces in the piano repertoire? I don't know of any. I guess most will be 20th century avante garde composers.

JL

[thorn]

Can't think of any offhand, but first composer who comes to mind is Satie (though not really avant garde in my book)

[49410enrique]

Can't think of any offhand, but first composer who comes to mind is Satie (though not really avant garde in my book)

i always like this name, '4 preludes flasques pour un chien' (flabby preludes for a dog)

[williampiano]

I once heard about a piece by Mozart that translates to something like "lick my arse", or something like that. I don't know if that's true though.

Edit: Yep! it is true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch

Sorry this one was so foul, but I think it takes the cake as one of the worst...

[drkilroy]

I have heard about Mozart's one.

My favourite however is Satie's Three Pieces in Shape of a Pear, mainly because it consists of seven pieces.

Best regards, Dr

[redbaron]

Yeah Satie has some particularly ripe titles. Others include:

Unpleasant insights
Sketches and attentions of a fat man in wood
Dessicated embryos
Chapters turned in all directions

[pianoplayjl]

I once heard about a piece by Mozart that translates to something like "lick my arse", or something like that. I don't know if that's true though.

Edit: Yep! it is true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch

Sorry this one was so foul, but I think it takes the cake as one of the worst...

Lick my buttocks...I read it was written for a party or something. No wonder the jovial name of the piece....I think Mozart never intended this piece to be serious, hence the foul named title. Satie- weirder than I thought. Could his music be considered atonal? I dunno.

Sorabji and his Opus clavicembalisticum. Who would have such a mind to create a long name for a  piece? But it fits since the piece is long. How fitting.

JL

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Alkan: Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot.

[drkilroy]

Could his music be considered atonal?

Not everything.  From what I have heard, Vexations for sure.

Best regards, Dr