Franz Josef Haydn got fed up with rude audiences who fell asleep during his music.
As a joke, he made a simple piece of music with repeating short and long notes and then added a big SURPRISE to wake everyone up.

Nina Nesbitt is an up and coming singer/composer from Edinburgh in Scotland. She recently had a hit record in the UK charts called ‘Stay Out’ and is touring a lot around Europe at the moment. She writes all her own songs – and she’s just 19 years old!

It seems that Beethoven was not a happy man. He lost his hearing after he had been composing music for many years and then his music took a dark turn. He was known for having bad moods – and for composing music that sounded ‘moody’.
Can you hear and see the ‘I feel so grumpy’ theme in this music video? Listen for the rhythm ‘ta ti-ti ta ta’ repeated over and over.
Unfortunately, one of our pets in the music room thinks that he is ‘Rathoven’ and has take to behaving like Beethoven and being grumpy himself!