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Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind's Katzensymphonie (1868)
Sheet music whose notes have been replaced by rambunctious cats.
Johannes Brahms, Julius Otto Grimm, and Clara Schumann were eventually accepted into the society, whose constitution included the clause: “Uncat-like speech or actions shall be duly punished before the Chapter, and any member who opposes this shall be expelled from the order.” Schwind was evidently proud of his composition, as he also sent a photograph of the sheet music to poet and pastor Edward Mörike on January 19, 1869, with an accompanying letter that cheekily ribs Joachim for his inability to play the Wagnerian Katzensymphonie. (Kalbeck went so far as to playfully suggest that Montmartre’s famed cabaret Le Chat Noir, whose iconic poster by Théophile Steinlen still dominates Paris souvenir shops, was also indebted to the Austrian artist.)
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