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Roi Ubu
Ubu's "Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu" is a grotesque, farcical, black-humored ballet and among the craziest musical works. Zimmermann's work, filled with quotes from composers like Schubert, Wagner, and Beethoven, along with the Radetzky March, Renaissance dance, and Luther choral, requires a dose of classicism and romanticism to balance its eccentricity. Despite their anxieties, neither Schumann's 4th Symphony nor Tchaikovsky's "Rococo Variations" reveal this tension. Although, embedding a rococo theme within romanticism and arranging cello variations is unusual.