funny music

[lenny]

pieces such as alkan's festin d'aesop, liszt's HR2 and many of hamelin's works ooze musical comedy

what other pieces make you laugh? 

[sharon_f]

I don't know about laugh out loud funny, but Liszt's Grand Galop Chromatique always brings a smile to my face!

[frederic]

How ironic! I'm doing a study of humor in music at my school in the piano specialsts' music programme. When you say funny music, you mean music that is musically funny, such as Haydn and some Beethoven, or downright stupid funny?
Well as I said before, Haydn diffinitly is a musical comedian. His sense of humor is almost as famous as his music. Then there's always the russians. Shostakovich for instance. His 1st piano concerto is very funny. The one with the trumpet. Last movement i find hilarious. Also his 2nd piano concerto, the more well known one, is sure worth a few giggles. But the fact that he goes from such a serious romantic sounding 2nd movement to a completely silly little finale cracks me up the most. Also, you might hear him mocking Hanon in the last movement  ( and i surely dont blame him). Prokofiev also. Some of his music are quite funny too. There's just so much ''funny'' music to list

[rachmaninoff_969]

Beethoven's sonata no. 16, Op. 31/1.  To me, this piece is about someone who can't get their hands together (first mvmt. that is).  Then the person get's frustrated.  Listen to a good interpretation and I guarantee the performer will capture this.  It cracks me up every time.

[steinwaymodeld]

Zez Confrey - Kitten on the Keyboard.

[Ed Marlo]

Horowitz's Virtuoso Fantasy (from Carmen), the opening 30 seconds sounds really rather serious, then you suddenly get this kick of Charlie Chaplin like silliness.  Reminds me of the old black and white speechless comedy films, and scenes with someone being chased, going in one door, coming out of another etc.  It cracks me up every time.

[anda]

paganini- anything, i think. i can't stop smiling whenever i hear anything by him (and esp concertos no. 1 and 3)

[Hamfast]

Wieniawski's "faust" fantaisia, in about 10th minute. Enjoy!!!

[lostinidlewonder]

How ironic! I'm doing a study of humor in music at my school in the piano specialsts' music programme.

How is it ironic? ehheh

[steinwayguy]

How ironic! I'm doing a study of humor in music at my school in the piano specialsts' music programme. When you say funny music, you mean music that is musically funny, such as Haydn and some Beethoven, or downright stupid funny?
Well as I said before, Haydn diffinitly is a musical comedian. His sense of humor is almost as famous as his music. Then there's always the russians. Shostakovich for instance. His 1st piano concerto is very funny. The one with the trumpet. Last movement i find hilarious. Also his 2nd piano concerto, the more well known one, is sure worth a few giggles. But the fact that he goes from such a serious romantic sounding 2nd movement to a completely silly little finale cracks me up the most. Also, you might hear him mocking Hanon in the last movement  ( and i surely dont blame him). Prokofiev also. Some of his music are quite funny too. There's just so much ''funny'' music to list

And it's ironic that at my school, we are doing a five concert series of Haydn piano sonatas.

[lostinidlewonder]

Don't you say coincidence?

[brewtality]

Earl Wild's Doo-Dah Variations. 

[lenny]

Earl Wild's Doo-Dah Variations. 

i havent heard of those, can you tell me more about them

i expect much comedy from the man who came up with this:

'langlang is the J-lo of the piano'

and the classic -

'banging is for the bedroom'

is that piece the musical equivelant of those quotes? 

[quakiap]

Claude Debussy - Golliwog's Cake-Walk 

[klavierkonzerte]

there are two parts in the first movment of kullaks piano concerto that sound very funny & childish in a great way, you'll know them if you listened to the concerto.

[brewtality]

i havent heard of those, can you tell me more about them

i expect much comedy from the man who came up with this:

'langlang is the J-lo of the piano'

and the classic -

'banging is for the bedroom'

is that piece the musical equivelant of those quotes? 

The official title is Variations on an American Theme for Piano and Orchestra. Wild composed them when he was 75 using the camptown races theme (which is funny in itself). He created 20 variations, all different in character and aptly named. My favourites are Honky Tonk, Revitalist March, A Gay Elephant, Cowboys and Indian, Funeral March and Confession (which Wild described as "an encounter between a priest and a prostitute") 

[lenny]

lol!!!

the gay elephant sound hilarious too!

[musicsdarkangel]

I think that the 3rd movement of the Mendelssohn g minor concerto is humorous.

I second the Grand Gallope Chromatique, and raise it a Feux Follet