Victor borge happy birthday

26 May 2021, 16:54 | Updated: 27 May 2021, 10:10

The humble ‘Happy Birthday’ has gained its very own Beethoven variations, thanks to musical comedy legend Victor Borge.

Victor Borge was a Danish musical comedian and trained concert pianist, who so memorably coined one of the original viola jokes – ‘The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer’.

Terrible, we know…

But have you seen this brilliant sketch from 1957, in which he combines the first movement of Beethoven’s enduring ‘Moonlight’ Sonata with ‘Happy Birthday’?

Watch, as he seamlessly weaves the famous ditty into one of the great Romantic piano works.

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Born Børge Rosenbaum in Copenhagen in 1909, Victor Borge started entertaining people in the 1920s and