Für Elise but Elise copied her friend’s homework - Day 25 | 30-Day Composition Challenge

Fur Elise but looks like Elise is running late for her homework assignment and cheated by copying some very familiar classical themes from certain composers. I’ve put all the references in the description, but see if you can guess them all without looking! This was written for Day 25 of Ryan Leach’s “2022 Theme of the Day Challenge“ where I’ll compose one piece per day for the entirety of June. The prompt for June 25th was “Cheater“. I thought of doing a “intertextual mashup“ parody of already established (public domain) classical music. Sort of like how Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia 3rd movement uses Mahler 2’s Scherzo as the basis and piles a bunch of quotations on it. The idea of using Fur Elise as the basis for the work came from my youtube recommended feed occasionally giving me videos like “Fur Elise but Elise said no“ from Mingchi or “Jingle Bells except it’s terrible and made me fail music theory“ from Parker Meek. Anyways