Can-can

Jacques Offenbach

For clarinet and piano

Written in F major, range F3 to F5

The gods of Olympus have come down to a party in the underworld, and it ends in a wild, high-kicking dance that nobody can stop. Offenbach wrote it for his operetta Orpheus in the Underworld (1858); later the dance halls of Paris made it the tune of the can-can.

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