Funny / Ludwig van Beethoven

• The Diabelli Variations are the comic high point in Beethoven's music, with spell-binding fugues and brilliant variations interspersed with hilarious parodies of bad music and the finger exercises of Johann Baptist Cramer.
• The "Turkish march" section of the Ninth Symphony is a rare bit of comic relief in an otherwise quite serious work. It comes directly on the heels of a big, climactic held chord in the chorus, quiet and almost grotesque in feel — an excellent example of what some writers have called romantic irony.
• The Eighth Symphony is commonly regarded as his funniest symphony, with his incorrect modulations and sudden dynamic jumps—the finale even shows him lampshading his tendency to overblow his codas by having it take up half of the movement.