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Classical Music in Star Trek

by Bernd Schneider and Jörg Hillebrand

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Classical music of European origin can be heard in Star Trek episodes and movies on various occasions.

The following list contains all pieces that we could identify, ordered by the name of the composer. All music is either performed by the characters or it is a recording played by the computer. Background music is not taken into account.

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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Johann Sebastian Bach

Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007 Prelude This piece plays during the scene in the study in PIC: "Absolute Candor", in which Picard discusses the detour to Vashti with Raffi, Rios and Jurati. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Bach - Cello Suite No.1 in G major - Prelude

IMSLP, performed by Thomas Auner

Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor ("Bach Double"), BWV 1043 First movement (Vivace) We can hear a short passage near the end of the first movement when Picard puts on his headgear again after talking to Geordi, and re-enters the concert room in "Star Trek: Insurrection". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Bach - Concerto for Two Violins in D minor - 1. Vivace

Pandora, performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra with David Parry and Roxana Pavel Goldstein (violins)

Third Brandenburg Concerto, BWV 1048 First movement (Allegro) Data listens to Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto (and three more pieces) in order to analyze its aesthetics in TNG: "A Matter of Time". In TNG: "Lessons", Captain Picard (Ressikan flute) and Nella Daren (Mataline II piano) play the first movement (Allegro). They soon decide to switch to something simple, "Frère Jacques". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Bach - Third Brandenburg Concerto - 1. Allegro

Musopen, performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia" (Moonlight Sonata), Op. 27 No. 2 First movement (Adagio sostenuto) Nella Daren plays a small excerpt of the first movement on her Mataline II piano in a Jefferies tube in TNG: "Lessons", before Picard changes to the Ressikan tune. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 - 1. Adagio sostenuto

copyright: Bernd Krueger

Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ("Pathétique"), Op. 13 First movement (Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio) The computer plays only the first few notes of the first movement in "Star Trek: Insurrection". The "rejuvenated" Picard is not content with the music choice and switches to a mambo. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8 - 1. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio

Musopen, performed by Paul Pitman

Symphony No. 6 in F major ("Pastoral"), Op. 68 First movement (Allegro ma non troppo) - Erwachen heiterer Gefühle bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande ("Awakening of joyous feelings upon arrival in the country") Geordi La Forge listens to the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in a shuttlepod while en route to Risa in TNG: "The Mind's Eye" when suddenly the Romulan Warbird shows up. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 - 1. Allegro ma non troppo

Musopen, performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 Second Movement (Molto vivace) Data listens to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (and three more pieces) in order to analyze its aesthetics in TNG: "A Matter of Time". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 - 2. Molto vivace

Musopen, performer unknown

Louis Hector Berlioz

Les Troyens Vallon Sonore Captain Jean-Luc Picard listens to the aria in his ready room during the Battle of Sector 001 in "Star Trek: First Contact", so loud that his tea cup shakes. Riker mistakenly identifies the piece as "Bizet". Show/hide libretto Vallon sonore

Où dès l'aurore

Je m'en allais chantant, hélas!

Sous tes grands bois chantera-t-il encore,

Le pauvre Hylas?

Berce mollement sur ton sein sublime,

Ô puissante mer, l'enfant de Dindyme. Fraîche ramée,

Retraite aimée,

Contre les feux du jour, hélas!

Quand rendras-tu ton ombre parfumée

Au pauvre Hylas?

Berce mollement sur ton sein sublime,

Ô puissante mer, l'enfant de Dindyme. Humble chaumière,

Où de ma mère

Je reçus les adieux, hélas!

Reverra-t-il ton heureuse misère,

Le pauvre Hylas?

Berce mollement sur ton sein sublime,

Ô puissante mer, l'enfant.... O echoing valley,

Where, at the break of day,

I once wandered singing, alas!

Will he ever sing again beneath your great woods,

Poor Hylas?

Rock gently upon your sublime breast,

O mighty sea, the child of Dindymus. O cool bower,

Beloved refuge

From the fires of the day, alas!

When shall you give back your scented shade

To poor Hylas?

Rock gently upon your sublime breast,

O mighty sea, the child of Dindymus. O humble dwelling,

Where I received

My mother's farewell, alas!

Will he see your happy poverty once more,

Poor Hylas?

Rock gently upon your sublime breast,

O mighty sea, the child.... Johannes Brahms



Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 120 First movement (Allegro amabile) Harry Kim is practicing the first movement of Sonata No. 2 in VOY: "Tuvix" when he receives a call from the Doctor. Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor - Geordi La Forge's "Moonlight on the Beach" holoprogram features a gypsy violinist playing Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5 in TNG: "Booby Trap". Later in the episode Geordi will encounter another Brahms on the holodeck. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor

JHenkel, performed by Fuldaer Symphonisches Orchester

Intermezzo No. 1 in E-flat major, Op.117 First movement (Andante moderato) Janeway chooses the piece as dinner music before having a dinner with Chakotay aboard USS Voyager in VOY: "Timeless". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Brahms - Intermezzo Op.117 No. 1 - 1. Andante moderato

IMSLP, performed by Ivan Ilić

String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 182 Second movement (Andante, ma moderato) The second movement of the sextet is performed (by a quartet!) in honor of Ambassador Sarek aboard the USS Enterprise-D in TNG: "Sarek". This is the music that brings a tear to Sarek's eye. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Brahms - String Sextet No.1 - 2. Andante, ma moderato

IMSLP, Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, performed by Musicians from Marlboro

Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35 Book 2, variation 13 In TNG: "Galaxy's Child", Geordi La Forge wants to impress Leah Brahms, who is about to visit him in his quarters. He asks the computer for "Brahms, a piano etude", and the computer plays the Variations on a Theme of Paganini (book 2, variation 13). Fortunately he decides that the idea of playing Brahms is corny.

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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Frédéric Chopin

Barcarolle in F-sharp major - Seven of Nine chooses the piece for a rendezvous with the holographic Chakotay in VOY. "Human Error". Nocturne No. 1 in E minor, Op. posth. 72 - Seven of Nine plays this piece on the piano on the holodeck in VOY: "Human Error", at the very beginning of the episode. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Chopin - Nocturne No. 1 in E minor

Musopen, performed by Peter J

Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28 - Matthew, a boy living in the colony of Moab IV, performs the piece during a visit of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D in TNG: "The Masterpiece Society". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Chopin - Prelude No. 4 in E minor

Porticodoro / SmartCGArt Media Productions

Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano in G minor, Op. 8 First movement (Allegro con fuoco) The piece is performed by Data (violin), Nella Daren (piano) and Ensign Cheney (cello) aboard the USS Enterprise-D in TNG: "Lessons". Vincenzo de Crescenzo

Rondine al nido First stanza The EMH performs this song during his last concert on the Qomar homeworld in VOY: "Virtuoso". He is interrupted by Tincoo who presents her "improved" holographic matrix, "designed specifically to extend the range of humanoid vocal capabilities". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

de Crescenzo - Rondine al nido

Paramount/CBS, performed by Agostino Castagnola, portrayed by Robert Picardo



Show/hide libretto Sotto la gronda della torre antica

Una rondine amica,

Allo sbocciar del mandorlo è tornata.

Ritorna tutti gli anni,

Sempre alla stessa data;

Monti e mare essa varca per tornar.

Solo amore

Quando fuggeva lontano

Speri invano ma non torni più.

Speri invano ma non torna più. Nella penombra dolce della sera

passa la primavera.

Cinguettano le rondini nel volo,

Ebbre di luce e d'aria.

Ed io son triste e solo;

Monti e mare tu non varchi per tornar.

Mia piccina,

fosti tutta la mia vita;

Sei fuggita e non torni più.

Sei fuggita e non torni più. Under the eaves of the ancient tower

A swallow friend,

Has returned at almond blossom time.

It comes back every year,

Always on the same date;

It crosses mountains and sea to return.

Only love

When it flees and goes far away

You hope in vain but it returns no more.

You hope in vain but it returns no more. In the sweet shadow of the evening

it passes the spring.

The swallows in flight chirrup,

Drunk on light and air.

And I am sad and alone;

You do not cross mountains and sea to return.

My little one,

you were all my life;

You have fled and return no more.

You have fled and return no more.

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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Antonín Dvořák

The Slavonic Dance No. 8, Op. 46 - When Data is hooked up to the Enterprise computer in TNG: "A Fistful of Datas" his files replace many other personal files. Picard's Mozart trio is partially overwritten by the Slavonic Dance No. 8 by Dvořák. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Dvorřák - The Slavonic Dance No. 8

United States Navy Band



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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) W. S. Gilbert



Arthur Sullivan

HMS Pinafore A British Tar In "Star Trek: Insurrection", Picard selects the song to distract the malfunctioning Data, chasing the android's scout ship in the atmosphere of the Ba'ku homeworld. Picard encourages the reluctant Worf to sing with him. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Gilbert and Sullivan - HMS Pinafore - A British Tar

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company & London Symphony Orchestra, 1930, dig. by F. Reeder



Show/hide libretto A British tar is a soaring soul,

As free as a mountain bird,

His energetic fist should be ready to resist

A dictatorial word.

His nose should pant,

and his lip should curl,

His cheeks should flame

and his brow should furl,

His bosom should heave,

and his heart should glow,

And his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow! His nose should pant and his lip should curl,

His cheeks should flame and his brow should furl,

His bosom should heave and his heart should glow,

And his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow. His eyes should flash with an inborn fire,

His brow with scorn be wrung;

He never should bow down to a domineering frown,

Or the tang of a tyrant tongue! His foot should stamp,

and his throat should growl,

His hair should twirl,

and his face should scowl,

His eyes should flash,

and his breast protrude,

And this should be his customary attitude. His foot should stamp, and his throat should growl,

His hair should twirl, and his face should scowl;

His eyes should flash, and his breast protrude,

And this should be his customary attitude, his attitude, his attitude, his attitude. The Pirates of Penzance I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General While working in a cargo bay, Beverly persuades Geordi to try the Major-General's song. He just sings the first two lines. Shortly afterwards, a quantum filament strikes the ship. Number One sings this song in SHO: "Q&A". Spock first doesn't seem to be amused but then joins in. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Gilbert and Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance - I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General

George Baker & D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent, 1929, dig. by F. Reeder



Show/hide libretto I am the very model of a modern Major-General,

I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,

I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical

From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,

I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,

About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, (bothered for a rhyme)

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;

I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,

I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;

I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,

I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,

In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,

I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!

Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, (bothered for a rhyme)

And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,

And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,

I am the very model of a modern Major-General. In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",

When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a Javelin,

When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,

And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",

When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,

When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery 

In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy  (bothered for a rhyme)

You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee. For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,

Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;

But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,

I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Johan Halvorsen



Georg Friedrich Händel

Passacaglia in G minor for Violin and Viola on a Theme by Georg Friedrich Händel (from Harpsichord Suite in G minor, HWV 432) - Data (violin) performs the Passacaglia together with his "mother" Juliana Tainer (viola) aboard the USS Enterprise-D in TNG: "Inheritance". Juliana's perfect play provides Data with a cue that she is actually another Soong-type android. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Halvorsen - Passacaglia on a Theme by Händel

Pandora, performed by Roxana Pavel Goldstein (violin) and Elias Goldstein (viola)

Joseph Haydn

String Quartet No. 5 in D major ("The Lark"), Op. 64 Fourth movement (Vivace) The fourth movement is played during the reception for the Evora in "Star Trek Insurrection", just after Picard has received the headgear. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Haydn - String Quartet No. 5 - 4. Vivace

Musopen, performer unknown



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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 1 Second movement The second movement is played over the ship's comm system when Kashyk comes aboard the ship for an inspection in VOY: "Counterpoint". Janeway plays the piece again when she tricks Kashyk in the end. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Mahler - Symphony No. 1 - 2.

Virtual Philharmonic Orchestra, rendered by Reinhold Behringer

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Wedding March in C major, Op. 61 - On the biomimetic duplicate of Voyager, Harry Kim performs the Wedding march on the clarinet, on the occasion of the wedding of Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres in VOY: "Course: Oblivion". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Mendelssohn - Wedding March

New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by George Szell, 1951, dig. by F. Reeder

Federico Mompou

Cançó i Dansa / Cancion y Danza No. 6 - The piece is played in Will and Deanna's quarters in "Star Trek: Nemesis". Deanna tells Will to come to bed, whereupon Riker's image changes to that of Shinzon in her mind. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Clarinet Concerto in A Major, KV 622 First movement (Allegro) At the beginning of VOY: "Parturition", Harry Kim is playing the first movement of the concerto in his quarters when Tom Paris enters. Tom asks Harry to play something pessimistic, because he is unhappily in love with Kes. Harry eventually plays a cheerful piece though, which has not yet been identified. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A Major - 1. Allegro

Wikimedia, performed by Fuldaer Symphonisches Orchester with clarinetist Bruce Edwards

Divertimento in Bb No. 2, KV Anh. 229 (439b) - Jean-Luc Picard overlays his own performance on a Ressikan flute against an oboe and cello performance of Mozart's Divertimento, thereby creating the "Picard Mozart Trio". The recording, like many other personal files, gets corrupted in TNG: "A Fistful of Datas" and is partially overwritten by Dvorřák's Slavonic Dance No. 8. Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G major), KV 525 First movement (Allegro)

Second movement (Andante) In TNG: "Where No One Has Gone Before", a crew member imagines playing the first movement together with three other musicians, when he is in fact alone in the room. In TNG: "The Ensigns of Command", a string quartet consisting of Data (violin), Miles O'Brien (cello) and two more crew members of the Enterprise-D (violin and viola) can be heard playing the first movement. Captain Jean-Luc Picard later listens to an audio recording of the second movement (Andante) that Beverly Crusher made as he wasn't able to attend the concert. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik - 1. Allegro

Pandora, performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra

Symphony No. 41 in C major ("Jupiter Symphony"), KV 551 First movement (Allegro vivace) Data listens to the Jupiter Symphony (and three more pieces) in order to analyze its aesthetics in TNG: "A Matter of Time". Piano Concerto Number 17 in G major, KV 453 Third movement (Allegretto) The third movement of the piece (Allegretto) is played during the reception on Arkaria held by Commander Calvin Hutchinson when the USS Enterprise-D is undergoing a baryon sweep in orbit of the planet in TNG: "Starship Mine". Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, KV 545 First movement (Allegro) Commander Tucker plays the first movement of the piece (Allegro) for the cogenitor in his quarters aboard the Enterprise NX-01 when the two are awaiting the decision about the cogenitor's asylum in ENT: "Cogenitor". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 16 - 1. Allegro

Musopen, performer unknown

String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major ("The Hunt"), KV 458 First movement (Allegro vivace assai) The end of the first movement can be heard during the reception for the Evora in "Star Trek Insurrection", just after Picard has entered the room to greet the regent. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Mozart - String Quartet No. 17 - 1. Allegro vivace assai

IMSLP, Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, performed by the Borromeo String Quartet

String Quartet No. 19 in C major ("Dissonance"), KV 465 First movement (Adagio - Allegro) The first movement is performed during a Mozart recital in honor of Ambassador Sarek aboard the USS Enterprise-D in TNG: "Sarek". Curiously the musicians skip the adagio and jump straight to the allegro part, almost 2 minutes into the first movement. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Mozart - String Quartet No. 19 - 1. Adagio - Allegro

IMSLP, Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, performed by the Borromeo String Quartet



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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Giacomo Puccini

La Bohème Che gelida manina Data sings the first three lines of this aria for Jenna D'Sora in TNG: "In Theory", while cleaning up her room. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Puccini - La Bohème - Che gelida manina

Orville Harrold (tenor), 1920, dig. by Tim Ecker



Show/hide libretto Che gelida manina

Se la lasci riscaldar.

Cercar che giova?

Al buio non si trova. Ma per fortuna

è una notte di luna,

e qui la luna

l'abbiamo vicina. Aspetti, signorina,

le dirò con due parole

chi son, e che faccio,

come vivo. Vuole? Chi son? Sono un poeta.

Che cosa faccio? Scrivo.

E come vivo? Vivo. In povertà mia lieta

scialo da gran signore

rime ed inni d'amore.

Per sogni e per chimere

e per castelli in aria,

l'anima ho milionaria. Talor dal mio forziere

ruban tutti i gioelli

due ladri, gli occhi belli. V'entrar con voi pur ora,

ed i miei sogni usati

e i bei sogni miei,

tosto si dileguar! Ma il furto non m'accora,

poiché, poiché v'ha preso stanza

la speranza! Or che mi conoscete,

parlate voi, deh! Parlate. Chi siete?

Vi piaccia dir! What a frozen little hand,

let me warm it for you.

What's the use of looking?

We won't find it in the dark. But luckily

it's a moonlit night,

and the moon

is near us here. Wait, signorina,

I will tell you in two words,

who I am, what I do,

and how I live. May I? Who am I? I am a poet.

What do I do? I write.

And how do I live? I live. In my carefree poverty

I squander rhymes

and love songs like a lord.

When it comes to dreams and visions

and castles in the air,

I've the soul of a millionaire. From time to time two thieves

steal all the jewels

out of my safe, two pretty eyes. They came in with you just now,

and my customary dreams

my lovely dreams,

melted at once into thin air! Bu the theft doesn't anger me,

for their place has been

taken by hope! Now that you know all about me,

you tell me who you are.

Please do! La Bohème O soave fanciulla In VOY: "The Swarm", the Doctor performs this aria together with a holographic reconstruction of the famous 22nd century soprano Guiseppina Pentangeli. When the Doctor gets into an argument with her, he says that he'd consider singing with Maria Callas next time. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Puccini - La Bohème - O soave fanciulla

Wikimedia and Adam Cuerden, performed by Enrico Caruso and Nellie Melba, 1907



Show/hide libretto Rodolfo:

O soave fanciulla,... ...O dolce viso di mite circonfuso alba lunar, in te ravviso il sogno ch'io vorrei sempre sognar!

(cingendo con le braccia Mimì) Mimì:

Ah! tu sol comandi, amor! Rodolfo:

Fremon già nell'anima le dolcezze estreme, nel bacio freme amor! Mimì:

Ah! tu sol comandi, amor! Mimì:

Oh! come dolci scendono le sue lusinghe al core... tu sol comandi, amore! (Rodolfo bacia Mimì) Mimì -- (svincolandosi):

No, per pietà! Rodolfo:

Sei mia! Mimì:

V'aspettan gli amici... Rodolfo:

Già mi mandi via? Mimì:

Vorrei dir... ma non oso... Rodolfo -- (con gentilezza):

Di' Mimì -- (con graziosa furberia):

Se venissi con voi? Rodolfo -- (sorpreso):

Che?... Mimì! Sarebbe così dolce restar qui. C'è freddo fuori. Mimì:

Vi starò vicina!... Rodolfo:

E al ritorno? Mimì -- (maliziosa):

Curioso! Rodolfo:

Dammi il braccio, mia piccina. Mimì:

Obbedisco, signor! (S'avviano sottobraccio alla porta d'uscita) Rodolfo:

Che m'ami di'... Mimì:

Io t'amo! (escono) Mimì e Rodolfo -- (di fuori):

Amor! Amor! Amor! Rodolfo:

Oh, sweet beautiful maiden,... ...Oh, how your face looks, its beauty softly bathed by the gentle moonlight. In you, sweet maiden, I see the dreams of love I'll dream about forever. (encircling Mimì in his arms) Mimi:

Ah! Only you alone guide us, Love! Rodolfo:

Deep in my soul trembles the deepest of passions, etc. Our kisses shudder with love! Mimi:

Ah! Only you alone guide us, Love! Mimì:

His gentle sweet words delight me, as they flatter my heart. Love, only you alone guide us! (Rodolfo kisses Mimì) Mimì -- (freeing herself):

No, I beg you! Rodolfo:

You're mine now! Mimi:

Your friends are still waiting. Rodolfo:

You're sending me away so soon? Mimì:

I'd like to say, but dare not..... Rodolfo -- (with gentility):

Speak! Mimì -- (with graceful cunning):

What if I came with you? Rodolfo -- (surprised):

What?... Mimì! It would be nice if we could stay here, outside its cold. Mimì:

I'll stay close by you. Rodolfo:

And when we return? Mimì -- (mischievously):

Wait and find out! Rodolfo:

Take my arm, my dear young lady... Mimi:

Sir, I'll do as you say. (Arm in arm they start towards the door) Rodolfo:

Tell me you love me! Mimi:

I certainly do. (they leave) Mimì and Rodolfo -- (from outside):

Love! Love! Love!

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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Anton Reicha

Wind Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 88 No. 2 Third movement (Andante grazioso) Data (oboe), Jenna D'Sora (flute), Keiko O'Brien (clarinet) and two other crew members (bassoon and horn) perform the third movement in a concert aboard the USS Enterprise-D in TNG: "In Theory". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Reicha - Wind Quintet in E-flat major - 3. Andante grazioso

Pandora, performed by the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet, 1986



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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Erik Satie

First Gymnopédie - Picard listens to the First Gymnopédie during the auto-destruct countdown in TNG: "Where Silence Has Lease". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Satie - First Gymnopédie

Musopen, Agathe Laforge, performer unknown

Domenico Scarlatti

Sonata in C major ("La caccia"), K. 159 (L 104) - Trelane plays the piece on his harpsichord on the planet Gothos, just after the landing party has entered the castle in TOS: "The Squire of Gothos". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Scarlatti - Sonata in C major

Veronica van der Knaap, Christchurch, New Zealand

Robert Schumann

Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15 First movement - Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Of Foreign Lands And Peoples) In VOY: "Human Error", the holographic Chakotay listens to Seven of Nine playing Schumann's Kinderszenen, saying it is one of his favorite pieces. He then stops the metronome that is hampering the performance in his view. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Schumann - Kinderszenen - 1.

Musopen, performer unknown

John Philip Sousa

The Stars and Stripes Forever - We can see the sheet music of the piece on the piano in the jazz bar in TNG: "11001001", which is curious because the musicians likely wouldn't play it. In TNG: "Evolution", one of the malfunctions that the nanites create is that all comm channels on the Enterprise-D play "The Stars and Stripes Forever". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Sousa - The Stars and Stripes Forever

US States Marine Band

Johann Strauss II

Frühlingsstimmen, Op. 410 - When the Doctor is trapped in Seven of Nine's body to evade Lokirrim detection in VOY: "Body and Soul", he/she dims the light in the Delta Flyer, replicates some champagne and dances the Frühlingsstimmen waltz ("EMH music file gamma 12") with the Lokirrim Captain Ranek to get close enough to stun him. Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), Op. 388 - Trelane makes Uhura play the waltz on his harpsichord in TOS: "The Squire of Gothos". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Strauss - Roses from the South

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An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube), Op. 314 - In order to celebrate Captain Benjamin Sisko's approval of taking their analysis regarding the Dominion War to Starfleet Command in DS9: "Statistical Probabilities", the four genetically engineered Humans, Jack, Lauren, Patrick, and Sarina Douglas hold a party with Doctor Bashir. They drink champagne and dance to Strauss's Blue Danube waltz.



Voyager's Doctor plays the Blue Danube waltz in one of his recitals in VOY: "Renaissance Man". When he and Captain Janeway are abducted by the Hierarchy, the Doctor alters a recording of the waltz so that it would sound out of tune. By performing a Fourier analysis, Seven of Nine finds out that the harmonics of the piece have been modified to imitate a warp signature. The crew is able to track the signature and thereby locate the Doctor and the captain. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Strauss - The Blue Danube

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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Francisco Tárrega

Prelude No. 4 in A minor - Data plays this piece on the guitar in TNG: "Silicon Avatar". Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 Second movement (Andantino in modo di canzona), B flat minor Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, second movement, is played in the mess hall when Janeway and Kashyk (who has allegedly defected) are working on finding the wormhole in VOY: "Counterpoint". The eponymous counterpoint in the music gives Janeway a cue that the spatial parameters could have a counterpoint in subspace. The same piece is played once again in the episode during Kashyk's following inspection, after his return to duty. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 - 2. Andantino in modo di canzona

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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Guiseppe Verdi

Rigoletto La donna è mobile Data listens to the aria (and three more pieces) in order to analyze its aesthetics in TNG: "A Matter of Time". When his daydream algorithm goes awry, the Doctor imagines that he is performing this piece in the mess hall in VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy". When Tuvok unexpectedly enters pon farr during the recital, the Doctor sings an altered version while "curing" him. Voyager's Doctor is singing the song in his office, when Seven removes his singing algorithms to prepare him for his transfer to the Alpha Quadrant in VOY: "Life Line". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Verdi - Rigoletto - La donna è mobile

IMSLP, Alain M. Jacques, performed by Jacques Pottier



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Verdi - Rigoletto - La donna è mobile (EMH version)

Paramount/CBS, from the episode



Show/hide libretto La donna è mobile

qual piuma al vento,

muta d'accento

e di pensiero. Sempre un'amabile

leggiadro viso,

in pianto e in riso

è menzognero. (chorus)

La donna è mobile

qual piuma al vento,

muta d'accento

e di pensier

e di pensier

e di pensier. È sempre misero

chi a lei s'affida

chi le confida

mal cauto il cor. Pur mai non sentesi

felice appieno

chi su quel seno

non liba amor! The women are unsettled

as feathers in the wind,

each moment

changes their minds. In tears, or even smiles,

yes, women's lovely face,

forever

beguiles us! (chorus)

The women are unsettled

as feathers in the wind,

each moment

changes their minds

changes their minds

changes their minds. The man that is so mad

to trust a women's heart

forever

must be sad. But still there is no bliss,

upon this Earth compared

to that

of a sweet kiss! Tuvok, I understand.

You are a Vulcan man.

You have just gone without

For seven years, about. Paris please find a way,

To load a hypospray.

I will give you the sign,

Just aim for his behind.

Hormones are raging.

Synapses blazing.

It's all so veeery

Illogical.

Illogical.

Illogical. Rigoletto Questa o quella The Doctor sings this aria during an away mission in the cockpit of the Delta Flyer in VOY: "Renaissance Man". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Verdi - Rigoletto - Questa o quella

Paramount/CBS, from the episode



Show/hide libretto Questa o quella per me pari sono

a quant'altre d'intorno mi vedo,

del mio core l'impero non cedo

meglio ad una che ad altra beltà.

La costoro avvenenza e qual dono

di che il fato ne infiora la vita;

s'oggi questa mi torna gradita,

forse un'altra doman lo sara. La costanza, tiranna del core,

detestiamo qual morbo crudele,

sol chi vuole si serbi fedele;

non v'ha amor, se non v'e liberta.

De' mariti il geloso furore,

degli amanti le smanie derido,

anco d'Argo i cent'occhi disfido

se mi punge una qualche belta. Amongst the beauties here around,

over me none have control;

none can say, "I am preferred;"

equal love I feel for all.

Yes, all women are to me

like the flowers of the field.

Now to this, I am inclined,

now to that by chance I yield. As one flies from a great peril,

so from constancy I fly;

those who will, may faithful be,

in freedom only does love lie.

I despise a jealous husband,

and I laugh at lover's sighs-

if a beauty strikes my fancy,

I defy one hundred eyes. Rigoletto Veglia, o donna, questo fiore In VOY: "The Void", the Doctor hums the aria in sickbay while treating Fantôme, a member of a species native to the Void, where Voyager is trapped. As Fantôme seems to relax when he hears the song, the Doctor plays the full orchestral version of the aria while treating the injuries. Seven of Nine gets the idea that music may be a way of communication with Fantôme's species. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Verdi - Rigoletto - Veglia, o donna, questo fiore

Paramount/CBS, from the episode



Show/hide libretto Ah, veglia, o donna, questo fiore

che a te puro confidai;

veglia, attenta, e non fia mai

che soffuschi il suo candor.

Tu dei venti dal furore

chaltri fiori hanno piegato,

lo difendi, e immacolato

lo ridona al genitor.

... O woman, watch over this flower

entrusted, pure, to your keeping;

be vigilant, that nothing may ever

sully its purity.

From the fury of the winds

that have broken other flowers,

protect her, and unstained

restore her to her father.

... Don Carlos Dio, che nell'alma infondere The Doctor performs the aria aboard Voyager for an audience of Voyager crew members and a number of fascinated Qomar in VOY: "Virtuoso". He later gives small holograms of him singing the same song to Qomar admirers, even singing a duet with his small holographic self. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Verdi - Don Carlos - Dio, che nell'alma infondere

Paramount/CBS, from the episode



Show/hide libretto Dio, che nell'alma infondere

amor volesti e speme,

desio nel core accendere

tu déi di libertà,

desio accendere nel cor

tu déi di libertà!

... Oh God, who wished to instil

love and hope in our souls,

Thou must kindle within our hearts

a desire for liberty;

Thou must kindle within our hearts

a desire for liberty.

... Antonio Vivaldi

Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) - Primavera First movement (Allegro) This piece is played by the Earth probe Friendship One when it contacts the planet Uxal in VOY: "Friendship One". HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Primavera - 1. Allegro

John Harrison



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Composer Piece Movement or aria Episode(s) Richard Wagner

Lohengrin Treulich geführt (Bridal Chorus) The traditional wedding march is played on the wedding of of Angela Martine and Robert Tomlinson aboard the USS Enterprise in TOS: "Balance of Terror". We can also hear the piece in VOY: "Course Oblivion" on the wedding of the biomimetic duplicates of Tom and B'Elanna, here played by Harry Kim on the clarinet and two other crew members (double bass and guitar). HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Wagner - Lohengrin - Bridal Chorus

Incompetech, Kevin MacLeod

Lohengrin Prelude to Act III Harry Mudd plays this over the comm system in one time loop in DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", just before he enters the bridge of the Discovery to take command. Prelude to Act III encompasses the above bridal chorus in its middle and at its end, but we only hear the beginning in the episode. HTML5 audio not enabled/supported.

Wagner - Lohengrin - Prelude to Act III

Musopen, European Archive



Unidentified Classical Music

There are still several pieces of classical music heard in Star Trek that have not yet been identified. Here is a listing of those pieces and any information that could be gathered.

The music box melody played by Janet Brooks's music box in TNG: "The Loss"

The cheerful piece that Harry plays after the Mozart clarinet concerto in VOY: "Parturition" (although Tom asked for something depressive to reflect his mood)

Original Music

The following compositions were created especially for use in an episode and are not classical in a narrow sense.

TOS: Requiem for Methuselah

Spock plays a waltz on the piano that he recognizes as an unknown work of Johannes Brahms. Flint, the only inhabitant of the planet, claims that he actually was Brahms (and several other historical figures, including Methuselah, Solomon, Alexander, Lazarus, Merlin and Leonardo da Vinci). In the real world, the waltz was composed by Ivan Ditmars especially for this episode and is named "Pseudo Brahms Esq.".

TNG: Where No One Has Gone Before

The classical ballet music we can hear when the ensign hallucinates that she dances (and Picard walks by) was composed especially for the episode too. The composer is Ron Jones, and he named it "Waltz of the Chocolate Donut".

TNG: Elementary, Dear Data

The violin melody played by Data as Sherlock Holmes on the holodeck at the beginning of this episode was composed by Dennis McCarthy and is called "Sherlock Tones".

VOY: Night

Harry Kim plays a piece he calls "Echoes of the Void" on his clarinet while the ship is in the "Void", a region devoid of stars in VOY: "Night". We can hear only a few notes, and most likely this is another original piece.

VOY: Latent Image

The piece of piano music that Kathryn Janeway listens to in her quarters while reading La Vita Nuova in VOY: "Latent Image" was composed and performed by Paul Baillargeon especially for this episode: "...So I wrote something that was like Chopin and we recorded it at the end of the session. They pulled out the big grand piano and I just played it.".

Addendum

National anthems

Parts of the American National Anthem (The Star-Spangled Banner) can be heard in TOS: "The Omega Glory" when the American flag is brought in. Parts of the French National Anthem (La Marseillaise) are played when the crew runs into Q's Napoleonic creatures for the first time in TNG: "Hide and Q". Both pieces are only background music and remain unnoticed by the characters.

Sabotage

"Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys is referred to as "classical music" in "Star Trek Beyond".

Credits

The basic list of classical music comes from Memory Alpha. Most of the screen caps are from TrekCore. All composer portraits are taken from Wikipedia. This project wouldn't have been possible without the free music archives such as IMSLP, Archive.org, ibiblio.org and Musopen. Thanks to Lukas Kendall for the information about the Sherlock Holmes violin composition.



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