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Thursday, November 15, 2018

19 classical music dad jokes ...

... you’re going to hate yourself for laughing at


By Maddy Shaw Roberts, ClassicFM London
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These timeless classical music jokes are so bad, your dad probably invented them. Did you hear the one about the tuba glue?

  1. Beethoven's favourite fruit

  2. How drummers name their daughters

  3. A classic

    Chopin, Chopout
    Chopin, Chopout. Picture: Unknown

  4. That time Bach couldn't contain himself

  5. *pretends to laugh*

    J.S. Bach's organ works
    J.S. Bach's organ works. Picture: Pinterest

  6. This is too much

    Mahler, smahler
    Mahler, smahler. Picture: Unknown

  7. Brass lolz

  8. Golden.

  9. Sorry, sops

  10. So baaaad it's good

    Tubas
    Tubas. Picture: Unknown

  11. Eric Whitacre, forever churning out the dad jokes

  12. Genius

    Murdered piano
    Murdered piano. Picture: John Finnemore

  13. Good jokes get better with age

    Haydn
    Haydn. Picture: Classic FM

  14. Too accurate.

  15. My new life mantra

  16. Pure garbage

  17. So punny

  18. This is truly terrible

    B minor
    B minor. Picture: Unknown

  19. Best kitchen ever


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Did you know Mozart's middle name ...

... isn’t really Amadeus?

By ClassicFM London
Turns out Mozart’s middle name and popular moniker, Amadeus, might have originated as a joke. Here’s the back story.
Mozart was baptised as (deep breath)… Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.
At its root, Amadeus comes from the third of his long line of middle names, Theophilus: a Greek name meaning ‘lover of God’ or ‘loved by God’. In its German form, it translates as ‘Gottlieb’ while in Latin, it becomes ‘Amadeus’.
During his lifetime, Mozart signed some letters in mock Latin as ‘Wolfgangus Amadeus Mozartus’, adding ‘us’ to the end of each name. In Italy around 1770, this morphed into Wolfgango Amadeo, which later became Wolfgang Amadè from about 1777.
It was deemed pretty normal to translate your name into other languages in Mozart’s day. Joseph Haydn went by Josephus (Latin) and Giuseppe (Italian), while Ludwig van Beethoven published some works as Luigi (Italian) and Louis (French.)
Mozart; Amadeus
Mozart; Amadeus. Picture: Getty
Mozart seemed pretty attached to his nickname. On his marriage certificate to Constanze Weber, he signed his name ‘Wolfgang Amade Mozart’.
But Amadeus was just that – a nickname. Aside from his wedding contract, only once during his lifetime was Mozart referred to as ‘Wolfgang Amadeus’ in an official document. In 1998, Mozart scholar Michael Lorenz found a document dated May 1787, in which ‘Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus’ is referred to in conjunction with his friend, Franz Jakob Freystädtler.
The day Mozart died, on 5 December 1791, his name was entered in the records of the Vienna Magistrate as ‘Wolfgang Amadeus’. Seven years later, the publishing company Breitkopf & Härtel produced an edition of Mozart’s complete works under the name – but the real dominance of ‘Amadeus’ began around 1810, 19 years after the composer’s death.
Romantic writers and authors used the nickname to proclaim their worship for Mozart, eventually turning ‘Amadeus’ into everyone’s preferred nickname for the classical giant.
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