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 conception as any which has taken form on this modern stage". Later assessments of the opera have often mentioned both the opera's strong and weak points. Audrey Williamson wrote in a 1982 book that the virtues of "The Sorcerer", "in spite of its defects ... justify its place in the repertoire." In 1996, Ian Bradley commented in the introduction to his annotated edition of the Gilbert and Sullivan libretti, "It will certainly be a great pity if it gradually fades away. "The Sorcerer" contains two of W. S. Gilbert's best-drawn characters, the soulful Dr Daly ... and the flashy but