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Humor in classical music

This list has 8 sub-lists and 25 members. See also Classical music, Music and humour
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P. D. Q. Bach
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Farse
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Drammi giocosi
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  • Frank Zappa
    Frank Zappa American musician (1940–1993)
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    Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American singer-songwriter, innovative rock guitarist, modernist composer, multi-instrumentalist, satirist, film-maker, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.
  • Victor Borge
    Victor Borge Danish comedian and musician
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    rank #2 · WDW 23 3
    Børge Rosenbaum (3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000), known professionally as Victor Borge ( BOR-gə), was a Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in the United States and Europe. His blend of music and comedy earned him the nicknames "The Clown Prince of Denmark", "The Unmelancholy Dane", and "The Great Dane".
  • Anna Russell
    Anna Russell British singer and comedian
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    rank #3 · WDW 9 1 1
    Anna Russell (born Anna Claudia Russell-Brown; 27 December 1911 – 18 October 2006) was an English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches on the piano. Among her best-known works are her concert performances and famous recordings of The Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis) – a humorous 22-minute synopsis of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen – and (on the same album) her parody How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.
  • Leck Mich Im Arsch Song by Insane Clown Posse
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    Leck mich im Arsch (literally "Lick me in the arse") is a canon in B-flat major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 231 (K. 382c), with lyrics in German. It was one of a set of at least six canons probably written in Vienna in 1782. Sung by six voices as a three-part round, it is thought to be a party piece for his friends.
  • Florence Foster Jenkins
    Florence Foster Jenkins American soprano (1868–1944)
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    Florence Foster Jenkins (born Narcissa Florence Foster; July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944), was an American socialite and amateur soprano who became known, and mocked, for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Stephen Pile ranked her "the world's worst opera singer... No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation."
  • Peter Schickele
    Peter Schickele American composer
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    rank #6 · WDW
    Johann Peter Schickele (July 17, 1935 – January 16, 2024) was an American composer, musical educator, and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, but which he presented as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach. He also hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix.
  • Gilbert & Sullivan
    Gilbert & Sullivan Victorian-era theatrical partnership
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    Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known.
  • Claude Vivier
    Claude Vivier Canadian composer (1948–1983)
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    rank #8 · WDW
    Claude Vivier (14 April 1948 – 7 March 1983) was a Canadian composer.
  • Comedian Harmonists
    Comedian Harmonists German close harmony ensemble 1928–1934
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    The Comedian Harmonists were an internationally famous, all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 as one of the most successful musical groups in Europe before World War II. The group consisted of Harry Frommermann (tenor buffo), Asparuh "Ari" Leschnikoff (first tenor), Erich Collin (second tenor), Roman Cycowski (baritone), Robert Biberti (bass), and Erwin Bootz (pianist).
  • P. D. Q. Bach
    P. D. Q. Bach Fictitious composer
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    P. D. Q. Bach is a fictional composer invented by the American musical satirist Peter Schickele, who developed a five-decade-long career performing the "discovered" works of the "only forgotten son" of the Bach family. Schickele's music combines parodies of musicological scholarship, the conventions of Baroque and Classical music, and slapstick comedy. The name is a parody of the three-part names given to some members of the Bach family that are commonly reduced to initials, such as for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; PDQ is an initialism for "pretty damned quick".
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