Instantly recognizable classical pieces

[Exy]

Maybe most people won't know what they are, but some of them have, for whatever reason, become familiar to practically everyone. Name pieces that everyone knows.

I'm going to start out with a modern classical piece. Most familiar from some TV commercial featuring it:
(for reasons not clear to me, it's always pronounced "row-DAY-oh", so don't pronounce it "ROW-dee-oh" around cultured people because they will laugh at you.)

-- this theme is totally familiar, I would think to practically everyone.

We all know this tune.

What other classical pieces have entered popular culture to the point that everyone knows them?

[Taumpy]

Thank you Disney and Warner Bros. for broadening my horizon's this way as a youth:



- you will absolutely know this about 30 seconds in.

[Inner Stickler]

which I always thought was written by Bach but apparently that is now in doubt.

[RabbitMage]

I think everyone knows

Also

[Taumpy]

The first movement from

Strauss'

Of course Brahms'

I think Pachelbel's makes the list too.

[fachverwirrt]

The finale to the (Rossini).
from Beethoven's 9th symphony.

[Exy]

is pretty recognizable.

If something this recent counts, from Carmina Burana is pretty recognizable.

[fachverwirrt]

(for reasons not clear to me, it's always pronounced "row-DAY-oh", so don't pronounce it "ROW-dee-oh" around cultured people because they will laugh at you.)

No, no. We wouldn't laugh at you. We'd merely cast resigned glances behind your back, then retire for tea where we will talk haughtily about the ignorance of the proletariat.

(Copland pronounced it "RO-dee-oh", so as far as I'm concerned, you can too. People who say "ro-DAY-oh" are ridiculous wankers who think that since it's a Spanish word it should be pronounced like Spanish. That Copland was American and Rodeo is an American piece seems to escape them.)

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[fachverwirrt]

If something this recent counts, from Carmina Burana is pretty recognizable.

Just to note: Carmina Burana predates both Rodeo and Peter and the Wolf.

[Orual]

Copland's is pretty well known. I seem to recall it being in military recruitment commercials.

[Myglaren]

I have a wonderful, majestic recording of this on vinyl, bought in Germany in '75, hasn't been played for years as my deck isn't hooked up anymore.

I do like although purists would disagree.

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[Myglaren]

Ravel, Bolero.

I don't know if it is a stereotype but oriental musicians seem to be particularly adept at playing western music.

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[parzival]

I can't see that as anything other than "authentic period sheep" with that image.

I'm actually not a big fan of his, but Tchaikovsky does have two:

[parzival]

And more Verdi, from Il Trovatore:

[Myglaren]

Sheep schmeep

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[Myglaren]

Surprisingly there are many of Khachaturian's themes that pervade our consciousness but no-one recognises his name.

[Oliveloaf]

Mozart's 41st is almost ubiquitous.

No one knows it by name, but they've certainly heard it.

[Myglaren]

40th too, parts of it anyway.