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Can anyone think of pieces of music, published as photoplay music, that are either highly derivative or flat out copies of established classical pieces?

For example, a derivative piece might be "The Night Riders" by Axt, which clearly states that it's based on Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," but an example of an uncredited copy is Jan Vitolin's "Hebrew Wail Theme," which plagiarizes Glazunov's Overture No. 1.

Can anyone think of pieces of music, published as photoplay music, that are either highly derivative or flat out copies of established classical pieces?

For example, a derivative piece might be "The Night Riders" by Axt, which clearly states that it's based on Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," but an example of an uncredited copy is Jan Vitolin's "Hebrew Wail Theme," which plagiarizes Glazunov's Overture No. 1.

I find fewer of these than you'd be led to believe by some writers on the topic. Ernst Luz has a "Minor Theme #1" which is a direct rip-off of Bizet's famous aria from The Pearl Fishers, which as far as I know was still under copyright at the time. Technically, I think he says "Adapted by Ernst Luz" rather than "Written by Ernst Luz," but since he doesn't say adapted from what, it's pretty much a theft. Good piece, though. It's the closer in our score for The Whispering Chorus, and we use it for the underground journey in our unrecorded score for The Phantom of the Opera.

"Agitato No. 3" by Otto Langey starts with a quote of the bass-line figure from Schubert's "Erl-König," but veers off in a different direction. (You can hear that one in the sword fight in our Faust score on Kino, though we start with the trio and D.S. back to the top, so the figure in question doesn't show up right away.)

Those are the only ones I can think of right off. Most of the direct borrowings are credited, and other than shortening themes from symphonic movements to bite-sized pieces (like Irénée Bergé's "Appassionato" from Tchaik's Romeo and Juliet, or Luz' "Redemption Theme," from Tchaik's 5th symphony), they aren't modified much.

Since I'm not a huge classical music geek, there could easily be stolen pieces that I just don't spot.

A couple of pieces come to mind:

There is a garden in loveland by Karl Hajos ; lyric by Harry B. Smith ; arr. by Frank E. Barry ; music adapted from melodies of P.I. Tschaikowsky. 1925 - I can't remember what tunes are stuck in there

Pomposo in C major 3/4 by Gaston Borch - to my ear the A section is an homage to the Meistersingers von Nuremberg - the main overture theme, and the B section has the main theme to the Ode to Joy chorale theme cleverly worked into the top voice part - very funny because except for one measure you can't pull it out unless you pick the top line out and play the rhythm differently.

Sparkletts, the first number in the Fox Orchestra Book Vol. 1, is to my ear a complete rip off of Greig's morning from Peer Gynt, at least the outer sections.