What did the composers like to do in their free time? How did their hobbies inspired their music? Let's discover it together.

Playing chess, going on a hike, having a good meal… composers enjoyed having a good time beside writing music. In this episode, we're exploring some of the composers' hobbies and the pieces they wrote about it:

Sergei Prokofiev: Pensées op. 62, N° 1
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor, II. Pantoum
Arcade Fire: Deep Blue
Arnold Schoenberg: String Quartet N°3, III. Intermezzo
Emile Waldteufel: Les Patineurs
Ola Gjeilo: Tundra
Robert Schumann: Waldszenen VII. Vogel als Prophet
Dmitri Shostakovich: Russian River, II. Football
George Gershwin: Shall we dance?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni «Finch’han dal vino»
Gioacchino Rossini: Péchés de vieillesse, Volume IV, Quatres hors d’oeuvres, III. Cornichons
Lionel Bart: «Food, Glorious Food» (from the musical Oliver!)