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To: Borges
as he is one of those very rare classical composers—like Mozart or Beethoven, but who else? –whose music almost everyone has heard at least a few bars of, even if they can’t always identify it.

Edvard Grieg. Almost everyone knows "Morning Mood" and "In the Halls of the Mountain King".

Rachmaninoff, "Flight of the Bumblebee" Shostakovich, "Second Waltz"

It is not really rare at all.

4 posted on 10/25/2025 11:20:09 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Flight of the Bumblebee was by Rimsky-Korsakov.

Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto was used for the Soundtrack for the Marilyn Monroe Movie “The Seven Year Itch”, and also had at least two Pop songs derived from it. “Full Moon and Empty Arms” and “All By Myself”.

But you’re right about Grieg. :-)


5 posted on 10/25/2025 11:55:40 AM PDT by left that other site ( For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us Is.33:22)
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