Monty Python's Decomposing Composers
Monty Python - Decomposing Composers * (written by: Michael Palin) * Beethoven's gone, but his music lives on, * And Mozart don't go shopping no more. * You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again, * And Elgar doesn't answer the door.
* Schübert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh,
* Whilst composing a long symphony,
* But one hundred and fifty years later,
* There's very little of them left to see.
* Chorus: They're decomposing composers,
* There's nothing much anyone can do,
* You can still hear Beethoven,
*But Beethoven cannot hear you.
* Verse: Händel and Haydn and Rachmaninov,
* Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal,
* But nowadays no-one will serve them,
* And their gravy is left to congeal.
* Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds,
* With their highly original sound,
* The pianos they played are still working,
* But they're both six feet underground.
* Chorus: They're decomposing composers,
* There's less of them every year,
* You can say what you like to Debussy,
* But there's not much of him left to hear.
* Finish: Claude Achille Debussy, died 1918.
* Christophe Willebaud Gluck, died 1787.
* Carl Maria von Weber, not at all well
* 1825, died 1826. Giacomo Meyerbeer, still alive 1863, not still alive 1864.
* Modeste Mussorgsky, 1880 going to parties, no fun anymore 1881.
* Johan Nepomuck Hummel, chatting away nineteen to the dozen with his mates down the pub every evening 1836, 1837 nothing.
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