Weird Sense of Humor
This composer, while a musical genius, also enjoyed writing letters filled with bathroom humor.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
The french composer, Erik Satie owned over 100 of these objects to protect himself from the rain.
What are umbrellas?
This young artist was fascinated by chemistry and explosives. Though he never contributed directly to the world of science, his name has been used by scientists to name the bacteria P. Zappae, the fish Zappa confluentus, the jellyfish Phialella Zappai, the spider Pachygnatha Zappa, and an astroid!
Who is Frank Zappa?
For his Grande Messe des Morts, this composer stipulated a choir of “up to” eight hundred singers and four separate brass bands. He chose economy with the orchestral arrangements and specified only fifty violins.
Who is Hector Berlioz
This composer wrote a piece called " A Musical Joke"
Who is Mozart?
During a rehearsal for the opera he had written, this composer pretended he was a cat when he was bored by leaping over tables and chairs; meowing, pawing and swishing his tail.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Maurice Ravel, famous French 19th century composer, was famous for his odd manner around clothing. His 12 identical velvet suits decreased by one every few months because of this odd habit.
Ravel only wore one suit at a time until it wore out. Then he promptly moved on to the next.
The destructive antics of drummer Keith Moon reportedly got The Who banned from every one of these in the world. One example of his antics include driving a Rolls Royce into the swimming pool of Michigan's Holiday Inn.
What is every Holiday Inn in the world?
Twentieth century composer John Cage questioned the concept and definition of music by composing a piece that was 4 min. and 33 seconds of what?
What is silence?
This letter by Mozart contains the odd quotes: "Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun!"and then ended with this phrase:
A. I'll break your head.
B. I'll step on your toes
C. Fiddle dee dee
D. One two buckle my shoe
A. I'll break your head
Published in the composer John Dowland’s First Booke of Songs or Ayres in 1597, "My Lord Chamberlain" is a duet for two lutenists… but just the one lute. Two players play the same lute by following Dowland's suggestion to do this.
What is to have one player sits on the other players lap?
(necessitating a cosy embrace if both are to comfortably reach the strings!)
Maurice Ravel kept a restricted diet by only eating food like potatoes, fish fillets, pasta, chicken breast meat, glasses of milk because they had this in common.
What is they are all the same color- white?
This classic rock band's obnoxioius behavior included throwing five TV sets out the window and into the waters of Puget Sound below.
Who is Led Zeppelin?
Eric Satie once stipulated that a piano piece had to be repeated this many times:
A. 20
B. Pi
C. 840
D. 500
What is C. 840?
(Eventually some American pianists in the 1960s took him seriously and it took the two pianists eighteen hours to perform the piece as Maestro intended.)
You think you procrastinate? Mozart finished Don Giovanni's overture by doing this.
What is writing it out in two hours the day it was due? (He tried writing it the night before and meant to take an hour nap, but ended up passing out all night long.)
He created a 12 minute comedy sketch, in which he forces the stars of HBO’s Game Of Thrones to take part in a madcap idea for a musical spin-off, with songs including ‘Wilding’ and Red Wedding’
Shotokovich, a 20th century Russian composer, sent letters to himself regularly in order to keep tabs on this.
What is the postal service?
Self-claimed alien, jazz musician Sun Ra claimed he was actually from this place.
What is Saturn?
These bizzare names are real titles of compositions by Erik Satie:
A. ‘Three pieces in the form of a pear,’ ‘Dessicated embryos,’ and ‘Flabby preludes for a dog’.
B. 'Umbrella, Shmumbrella,' "Satie, Schmatie," and "France, Schmance"
C. " A piano fits inside a piano which fits inside another piano," "Fiddle Dee Dee" Symphony, and the Ballet, "Let's Ban Pants!"
What is A. ‘Three pieces in the form of a pear,’ ‘Dessicated embryos,’ and ‘Flabby preludes for a dog’.
Mozart passed away before Requiem mass could be finished, so his wife did this in order to finish it.
What is hiring another composer to finish it and then forging Mozart's signature for publication?
This musical parody master is obsessed with the number 27 because he thinks it's a pretty funny number/ used the number 27 just because it fit well as a lyric and because it was a "pretty funny number."
Who is Weird Al Yankovic?
When a fan called attention to the references to 27 in the "Like a Surgeon" and "This is the Life" videos, Weird Al started to use the number more often. Some references are straightforward, such as Al claiming to have eaten every Twinkie on 27th Avenue in one song or the seeing a 'Take 27' on the clapboard during the faked moon landing scene in the "Foil" video. Some connections are tenuous, such as the factoid that Yankovic traveled 28,457 miles in his 2010 tour, 2 and 7 being the first and last digits of that number.
This iconic pop musician had loads of aliases:
Alexander Nevermind, Christopher Tracy, The Kid, The Minneapolis Midget, The Artist and as a child, Skipper
Who is Prince?
American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller sang at a notorious gangster's birthday party against his own will. How is that possible?
Al Capone and his cronies kidnapped Fats Waller for 4 days so he would sing at Al Capone's birthday party.
Messiaen had this condition, which is to say he could see colours when he heard music;During a rehearsal, once, he interrupted the conductor to ask whether the trombones could play more "Green Orange."
What is synaesthesia?
This Bb cannon uses this kind of humor as it's title.
What is toilet humor?