The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Originally a piano piece from 1935 called Pour le Tombeau de Paul Ducat.

Now, Paul Ducat is the composer of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

If any of you saw Fantasia, that's the one that Mickey Mouse is...

Making the brooms do all the work for him.

really good song.

Also really like, just to shout out a classic, I think Sorcerer's Apprentice is just great from Fantasia.

Oh,

from Fantasia.

That's on tomorrow's Ozarks at Large.

[upbeat music] What did French composer Paul Dukas have in common with that famous cartoon mouse? You're on the Soundbeat.

In 1940, Disney released Fantasia, a film of eight animated segments set to some of the greatest classical works of all time.

You're listening to one of them, Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, performed here by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

It's an example of a tone poem, an orchestral piece based on a work of literature.

This one's based on Johann Goethe's Der Zauberlehrling, and follows the same storyline.

Much like Mickey as the wizard's assistant, Dukas had his own destructive streak.

An extreme perfectionist, he destroyed much of his own work.