The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) piece was used in "Study No. 8" by Oskar Fischinger. The Dukas piece and Goethe poem were also, by way of the film " Fantasia", the inspiration of the 2010 Disney movie, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. <score vorbis="1"> </score> The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) " The Sorcerer's Apprentice (French: "L'apprenti sorcier") is a symphonic poem in the key of F minor by the French composer Paul Dukas, written in 1897. Subtitled "Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe", the piece was based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem of the same name. By far the most
The Sorcerer The spell broken, the villagers pair off according to their true feelings, and celebrate with another feast (reprise of "Now to the banquet we press"). "The Sorcerer" opened on 17 November 1877 at the Opera Comique, preceded by "Dora's Dream", a curtain-raiser composed by Sullivan's assistant Alfred Cellier, with words by Arthur Cecil, a friend of both Gilbert's and Sullivan's. Busy with last-minute cuts and changes the day before the show opened, Sullivan had no time to write an overture and used the "Graceful Dance" music from his incidental music to "Henry VIII", together with a few measures of music