Classical Connoisseur Mugs

Life Without Mozart

'I hate these purists who play Bach without any pedal'

'All right Billy, until your 'staccato' touch improves, we'll be having our piano lessons here at the stove.'

Don't sit next to the violinists.

"Come on, you know the words! Bum bum bum bum!"

Mendelssohn Finds His Inspiration

"In conclusion , I'll replay the notes I played incorrectly. There was an F sharp, two E flats, a G..."

Back in 10 minuets.

'In the middle of the second movement, Rodney's worst fears were realized; Phillippe began to sing along.'

"What the ponytail for the downbeat."

Camille Saint-Saens

'Look Clara, I'm telling you for the last time, it's not me who's crazy. It's Eusebius.'

Gioacchino Rossini

"Hey, would you mind taking a quick sculpture of me and my family?"

Johann Strauss II

Sergey Rahmaninov

Some Time In The 1820s. . .

George Frederic Handel tries to write lyrics for his 'Royal Music For Fireworks.'

First violinist has an 'MVP' sign on his chair

Pianist playing a sharp and a flat key

"Where've you been Haydn?"

"Please, Daddy. I don't want to learn to use a computer. I want to learn to play the violin."

Carl Maria von Weber

Richard Wagner's other Ring Cycle.

Flight of the Bumblebee

Mozart

"Did you know Mozart died young to avoid muzak?"

'Friends, Romans, Post-Impressionists, lend me your ears.'

"...And somebody's been listening to my Berlioz!"

"'Is Lordship 'as just popped to the corner shop for a packet of fags..."

Piano being held up by a bust.

Archimedes statue with a lever

Aleksandr Glazunov

Cleaner lifts Atlas holding the world to clean underneath.

Arturo Toscanini.