I have been playing guitar for a long time and whenever you walk into a guitar store there are several guitar riffs that you are guaranteed to hear someone play while you are there: stairway to heaven, enter sandman, sweet child o mine, aint talkin bout love, crazy train, etc. In the movie waynes world mike myers walks into a guitar store and starts playing stairway to heaven and an employee stops him and points to a sign that says "no stairway" lol. Anyways, I was wondering what piano equivalent pieces fall into this category? Pieces that you have heard so many times that when you hear them it makes you roll your eyes and think "not again..."
Bagpipes don't have an equivalent, the only piece that can be played on bagpipe is Amazing Grace so it doesn't count.
"Of a high musical quality" is honestly such a bullsh*t thing to say. I really can't agree with anyone who can say that if a piece is recognized and loved by non-'serious' musicians, then it's not "of a high quality". Sorry, but that just irks me and only worsens the divide between classical/contemporary musicians (both are guilty!)Anyways - I understand what you are saying; some pieces get to a point where it's like "ok, do you know anything else?" But you can't blame the piece of music for that