Watch Fantasia Movie Music

What you are going to see, are the designs and pictures and stories that music inspired in the minds and imaginations of a group of artists. In other words they're not going to be the interpretations of trained musicians. Which I think is all to the good. From Fantasia (1940) movie. Into the page you can watch clips, snapshot pictures and more.

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor music by Johann Sebastian Bach

Nutcracker Suite music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period, known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos. He has generally been regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period, well known for his three ballets: The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and The Sleeping Beauty.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice music by Paul Dukas

Paul Abraham Dukas (1865 - 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher; best known work is the orchestral piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier).

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.

The Rite of Spring music by Igor Stravinsky

Intermission - Meet the Soundtrack

I'd like to introduce somebody to you. Somebody who is very important to Disney. He is very shy and very retiring. I just happened to run across him one day at the Disney Studios. But when I did I suddenly realized that he was not only an indispensable member of the organization but a screen personality. And so I am very happy to have this opportunity to introduce to you the Soundtrack.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) was a German composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of all time, a crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras.

The Pastoral Symphony music by Ludwig van Beethoven

Fantasia Movie Music contains eight sections.

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834 - 1886) was an Italian opera composer, best known for his opera La Gioconda.

Dance of the Hours music by Amilcare Ponchielli

Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria music by Modest Mussorgsky and Franz Schubert

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881) was a Russian composer, an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period.

Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras ranked among the greatest composers of Western classical music and his music continues to be popular.

Notes

The animators secretly modeled elements of the Sorcerer in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" on their boss, Walt Disney. The raised eyebrow was regarded as a dead giveaway. They call the character Yen Sid, which is "Disney" spelled backwards.

When Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), the only featured composer still living in 1940, was contacted about the rights to use "The Rite of Spring," he offered to compose a completely new piece for Walt Disney. This was not taken, and Stravinsky hated Leopold Stokowski's re-orchestration and re-organization of the piece, the original order of the sections was jumbled, and two of them were completely left out.