Victor Borge (Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Frederic Chopin, Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Strauss, Irving Berlin & Modern Music) - Variations on "Happy birthday to you"

[xHuntedGunzPCGx]

In the style of Bach, what piece(s) is that descending figure found in? Is there a name for it?

[carllybbb]

which piece is that Berlin?

[makerofjam]

Isn't the Wagner bit the Tannhauser overture, not Die Meistersinger? Am I imagining that? Or has someone already pointed it out?

[killergirls]

His last piece was epic!!!

[barendschipper]

Hahaha! Hahaha! (bis)

Great!

[ricardomakaron]

just impossible dislike this! Awesome!

[TamuniaK]

Borge is a genius. I think the way he plays classic makes it more accessible to people that do not understand classic music well.

[The55555SSSSS]

0:17 Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto op. 23

0:52 Chopin's Military Polonaise op. 40 no. 1

1:35 Brahms's Waltz op.39 no.15

2:35 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2

4:50 Wagner's Die Meistersinger (plus a lot of improvisation)

6:40 Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata 1st movement op.27 no. 2

8:53 Struass Blue Danube Waltz

10:04 Khachaturian's Sabre Dance from the ballate Gayane

[Nicholasr1996]

@The55555SSSSS I'm pretty sure Wagner's was Tannhaeuser...



[The55555SSSSS]

@Nicholasr1996

haha you are right! why did i even type Die Meistersinger?

[neobeethoven]

@carlybbb It's kind of adapted from Alexander's Ragtime Band

[TxGotham]

While I like this - and thank you for the editing and the posting of it - it's too bad it's not actual video rather than just the audio.

[king11fallen]

1 idiot entered in this page of the internet.

[Betziburli]

The last one is Katchaturian (dance of the Bumble Bee)

[The55555SSSSS]

@Betziburli

no its not...

it was khatchaturian's sabre dance

bumble bee was written by korsakov

[77Pianist]

Amazing!! nice variation!!

[77Pianist]

amazing brain!!!! ^^

[aidirolf]

Was wondering who it was who gave this one the thumbs down? Obviously not a very musical or intelligent fellow!!

[mercury12100]

Happy birthday to Mozart

[doryzsu]

(= !smharB

[doryzsu]

(= !smahahB

[supergransdisco]

brilliant comedy why can`t we see and hear things like this on the tv today?????

[EliasCalabretta1]

I wish there was another button to use for this vid.

Like just isn't the word

More like Love and adore

:P

absolutely marvelous

[HerrWarja]

I wonder if you could get sheetmusic of his acts? :D

[alciefrederic]

The modern composer is Aram Khachaturian (Sabre Dance).

[fistertrumpet]

Mozart <3

[themurfinator521]

HAHA, I fell off my chair at Borge's description of Wagner's piece!

[kraftpr]

What a loss to the music world when he passed. He began his career as a legitimate concert pianist in Denmark. I wish I could have heard him play a "serious" concert or recital. I wonder if there are any recordings from those early years? All I can seem to find are his many comic routines.

[RemovdSande11]

haha, the Brahms is really funnny hha :D this guy is hilarious!

[skryabyn]

OMG STRAUS HILARIOUS

[Silkmeister]

LOL 3:30 to 3:50 lol

[Pianofy]

Hahahaha the Bach one, amazing!

[wovenv2]

I want friends that find this funny as well.

._.

[Sword1479]

Lol, I was dying at the Bach variaton!

And the Chopin one's my favorite!

[MyLordLoke]

Funny and Amazing!

[pianofogel1]

smharb- lmao. genius.

[racheleleeba]

I can't believe I just found this. There will never be another Borge. Thanks so much for posting.

[mery094]

The last variation is Kachaturian, is the best! :)

[aaron9099]

Got to say, Chopins version sounds better than the others, although they´re all bloody brilliant.

[BobbyMercy1]

fricking rocks

[Erebnur]

I liked the Mozart variation de best.

[darrencjc]

i like the modern composer.

[operakitty03]

The final composer is Khachaturian

Thank you for posting ---brilliantly amusing!

[veranodevivaldi]

en que musica esta influenciada la parte de bach?????? no reconosco la musica y la musica de mozart en que tambien esta influenciada?

[chendoIs]

A perfect blend of comedy and music.

[manlyman80345]

I don't blame you for having him as an enigma to you, this is pretty high humor at some points! Borge is a very, very clever man.

[dialectgirl]

The name of the last composer is Khachaturian (who composed the Sabre Dance)

Thanks for the upload! :)

[ahalalsuna]

Pyotr Tchaikovsky has a couple of thousand views while lady gaga has over 170 million views what a shame.

[pirateking56128]

@ahalalsuna That's because people with a more classic sense of humor and music are a dying breed.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

Schliszt! :D

[HerrWarja]

Beethoven was good.

[EdiEllerymissing]

This guy was a GENIUS!

[signerh]

The Wagner part is wonderfull :D

[tuxtlan21]

jajaja lo de mozart es una mentada de madre ajaja xD

[lochmorrissey]

The final composer is the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian.

[michaelnyman1]

The best

thanks man!!!!!!!!

[1999holly]

I have this CD too!

Nice editing.

[BitchIStoleYourFish]

smharb HAHAHAHAHA priceless

[voicewithin90]

What is Pyotr Tchaikovsky's song?

[tantat4480025]

concerto no1. 1st movement

[jgpret]

@voicewithin90 the first one... first piano concerto

[JustFartProductions]

I'M LAUGHING SO MUCH I'M CRYING! i shit you not. fuck, this was brilliant. Borge is my nev fav pianist

[Jourell1]

This has probably been mentioned before but the modern composer is Aram Khachaturian. His segment is based on his well known song "Sabre Dance".

[alehcim27]

Bravissimo ...peccato non avere il video

[steinwaygrande1]

There will never be another Victor Bborge to make us laugh like he did, with no smut or vulgarity in any of his performances . He didnt have to stoop so low as todays genreation of of so called comedians have to do, in order to get a laugh. He was born to bring so much joy and laughter into a sick world we now live in. RIP Victor

[AmandaCaines]

I completely agree... both he and Anna Russell with her coments on Wagner opera are just a joy to watch and listen to....safe sane humour - a delight and cripplingly funny! :)

[steinwaygrande1]

I had forgotten about Anna Russel. Her comments on the Wagnerian Opera`s are hilarious. Need to listen to egg cerpst ( soryy about the pun ) with Gerrard Hofnung and Peter Ustinov. Both highly entertaining people in their own right

[bluesbricklayer]

stupendo Wagner...e dire che l'ho sentito giusto qualche settimana fa quel pezzo cui fa riferimento...

[tantat4480025]

Best Best Best!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LynxMajic]

Which on'es the piece by Irving Berlin? Is it the ragtime?

[Jourell1]

LynxMajic, yes the ragtime style is based on Irving Berlin

[13loomisst]

Thanks very  much.

[rurikbird]

I wish there was a video...

[21SOAR]

I LOVED that last one.

[urnungal]

I'll agree on Khatchaturian - Borg quotes from his "Sabre Dance". That clinches it for me.

[juliengracq31]

he understood all at 07:22

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

wagner: AAAHHHHHH AAAHHHHOOOO!!! lol this man is the bomb!!

[VickiSif]

This is SO BLOODY funny!

[Todesviper]

oh man.

especially Bach got me here so much. i really can't stop laughing.

this man is SO great. No one can mess with Borge ^^

[eltachimetro]

the modern composer means to prokofiev isnt it? XD

[adamgadk]

It sounds more like Shostakovitch :-)

[libertatus]

"Shostakovitch................­...Shosta moment!

[erutuon]

The modern composer he imitates at the end is Aram Kachaturian.

[Lukucianetto]

looooooooooooool the best!!!

[pierretang]

I love the Khachaturian

[rachman2787]

What's the Wagner Opera this is from?

[nmvdw]

Tahnhaüsser.

[subkontrabasklarinet]

Tannhäuser.

[nestersg]

Such a shame nobody I know would understand any of this

[soccom8341576]

@nestersg

Why not? It's so obvious.

[The55555SSSSS]

For your information , Borge was a child prodigy and was awarded a full scholarship at the Royal Danish Academy of Music at the age of 9.

[gemmahanson]

@nestersg whats not to understand? :S

[nestersg]

@gemmahanson

They don'tknow any of the music or composers. They think Talyor Swift is good.

[fernandob1948]

@nestersg Victor Borge was a GENIUS!!!! He played with exuberant technique and was able to make fun with any kind of music. He was FANTASTIC! One of the best virtuoso ever...

[Youkali67]

@nestersg Oh yes, I understad very well, I studied piano for 16 years and I think this is so GREAT!!! WOW!!1

[dernieremode]

genius genius genius, and so unpretentious! good on him!

[liveforlife2494]

Awesome! I grew up with VCR's of Victor Borge's performances. Thanks so much!

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

brahms backwords, SMHARB! LOL SO FUNNY!

[BehruzKatastrofski]

Thanks for uploading!

The "modern composer" is Aram Khachaturian. The piece Borge uses in this variation is "Sabre Dance" (from the ballet "Gayane").

[skryabyn]

OMG 2:27 hilarious

[tchebinai71]

yes . More than the fact you said it was hilarious, i couldn't help laughing when i heard this fucking chord .

[VivaMariaCallas]

I agree, Borge is very creative and intelligent, much more than a simple comic. The Beethoven one was especially skillful, in my opinion. But all of them are funny.

I found Dick's Tannhauser variation particularly funny.

[insertoriginaluser]

I'm laughing so hard I'm crying...

[BarbaraPloyer333]

HAHAHAH!!!! Goodness, do you have more by this man? He is HILARIOUS and brilliant!!! HAHAHHAHA!!

[woody1182]

i've heard Borge play when I was very little, as a piano player I believe his outlook towards his "bit" so to speak was to expose people to the true classics and masterpieces. He uses his witful mind to make it more enjoyable. I will always enjoy his playing because he was so wonderfully trained that as a pianist, he was wonderful.

[Cryingangel89]

thats so cool. the man isperfect he can play anything its the master, i want have them hands;)

[AvocadoMandog]

The last composer is Khachaturian.

[LetTheMusicFlow1]

kudos to LindoroRossini for uploading this!

[Cuchullain10]

Your title is wrong! Victor Borge said "Johann Sibelius Bach"

;-))

[rasrhohan]

Victor Borge him self use to say "if peaple don't take musik serius I'm a comidien, if peaple don't take comidy serius I'm a musiker, and if peaple don't take ennything serius I'm a clown

[Jourell1]

Mr Borge wasn't just a clown- though light hearted he was equally as talented a pianist as he was a comedian. though you can hear it when he's goofing around, it really comes through on the somewhat rarer occasions when he sits down and plays a piece seriously.

[ziploxx]

You did an excellent job of editing, and keeping the best. I've heard the whole routine, and you trimmed it to the cream. Thanks!

[jaimevieuxtemps]

Love Tannhauser 4:39

[matamoe3a6]

huahuahuaha this is soo funnyy

[ntnkj]

The last composer is Khachaturian

[KyotoMelody]

Yes it is genius! Im laughing so hard over here. Thanks to Franz, for sending me, and thanks to the video owner for sharing.

[atypeofcool]

I typed in Brahms and got this. It's really funny. He should have done Stravinsky.

[duhhh86]

yes...the bach one was so funny...the dig at his repetitiveness....

[duhhh86]

hahha!!!!

[0OoFACUoO0]

Love the end! Really funny

[shrinkingglasses]

hahaha awesome

the modern one is Aram Khachaturian

[earthatic]

Really enjoyable!

[fadedgreyheaven]

hahahaha great way to crack up a music student :D

[bbbartolo]

Good find--will send URL to friends on the appropriate days!

[Meyerbeer1]

Oh my, he was a genius!

[niamhmcb]

Could you list the pieces which he uses as bases for the variations?

[theCommenteer]

Check out Hoffnung's "Concerto Populaire" if you're not familiar with it.