After listening to a few more scherzos - including three from the great film music of John Williams - we will be considering the 19th century version of film music. Various great composers like Mendelssohn, Grieg, and Bizet wrote incidental music to stage plays. In some cases the incidental music has become as famous - or more famous - than the plays themselves! (For example, A Midsummer Night's Dream.) Like some film music, this incidental music can be fully appreciated in a concert format without viewing the story it is meant to support - and indeed, that is how audiences experience it today!
