As long as we are taking things off the list, I am not convinced that
Haydn's Drum Roll Symphony (mvt.4, intro) really quotes the Dies Irae
either.
-Randolph Peters
Howard Shore used it throughout his scores to the "Lord of the
Rings" films.
Andrew Stiller wrote
He most certainly did not!
Nor is it to be found in Dvorak's 7th. Similarity is not identity.
I once amused myself by "proving" that numerous famous themes,
including all four movements of Mozart's clarinet quintet and the
opening to the Rite of Spring, were all variations on "The Sidewalks
of New York." You gotta watch out for that sort of thing.
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