Here's a piece of music you're probably quite familiar with but don't know its origins. It's the "Humoresque" No.7 in G-flat Major by Antonin Dvořák, who died on May 1, 1904 (tomorrow will be the 113th anniversary of his death). Although one of eight such pieces in a cycle, this particular work has gone to obtain some infamy all on its own, appearing in The Great Ziegfield, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur, the Animaniacs, and countless others. Here it is performed by Balazs Szokolay:
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