Pop Songs Inspired by Classical Music

I cover the classics in this article

Some people might argue that no more completely original music can be made. I strongly disagree. Music is not always about the chords, the riffs, the patterns. It’s about the emotion it evokes. Don’t worry, I won’t bother you with cover songs. Instead, I have compiled a list where artists were directly inspired by classical music. I’ll leave it down to you to determine whether they arouse your feelings. I limited myself to tracks I could only name from the top of my head.

A colleague of mine asked if I put on music just to annoy them. I was playing Erik Satie (1866–1925) at the time. In the 1970s his work gained popularity due to the success of Reinbert de Leeuw.

There’s a lot to interpret when you play classical music if no recordings exist. With Satie, the main question is how fast to play. Aldo Ciccolini was the first to record Satie’s piano works in the late 1970s. Reinbert de Leeuw, however, did not agree with how Ciccolini interpreted Satie’s notes found on the sheet music. How slow is ‘très lent’ (very slow), and how one earth would one play “lent et douloureux” (slow and painful)? Reinbert experimented by going slower and slower. He finally settled on awfully slow. For comparison: the version of Ciccolini takes 2:43 minutes, while the De Leeuw needs 5:35 minutes.

I fell in love with Reinbert de Leeuw’s recordings of Satie. Although, I must admit I understand why my coworker was not very fond of hearing it from my workstation. After all, his music birthed the term ‘elevator music’.

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