did Giorgio Moroder "borrow" someone else's song?

[ol'skinflint]

I can only assume my ears aren't working, so someone please tell me I'm mistaken. Is it possible my favorite composer/producer would ever take the melody from another song and put his name on it? But while recently listening to the "Electric Dreams" soundtrack, a VERY familiar melody crossed my ears when I heard Moroder's propulsive instrumental "The Duel". I had to wrack my brain several times to identify the song, but to my barely working ears it sounds EXACTLY like the forgotten pop hit "A Lover's Concerto". I've never heard any Moroder composition that seemed to contain any part of any other song, but this one seems to. I'm aware the "Electric Dreams" soundtrack may be a bit tricky to find but if you have it, please check out "The Duel" and tell me if you hear the similarity also.

[Noman]

it sounds EXACTLY like the forgotten pop hit "A Lover's Concerto".

Do you mean it sounds like this one? A "cover version" of Beethoven?

[Noman]

I listened to it and it's definitly not "Fur Elise"... I had to consult my mother and she said the melody in the duel is from a J.S Bach notebook dedicated to his wife Anna Magdalena. It's a Minuet , composed by Christian Petzold.
So he has borrowed melodies several times

[ol'skinflint]

Do you mean it sounds like this one? A "cover version" of Beethoven?

I'm not sure what you mean, I'm referring to the pop song called "A Lover's Concerto", I believe it was performed by a female vocal group called the Toys and Diana Ross and the Supremes also covered it. Giorgio's song "The Duel" has the vocal melody from "A Lover's Concerto". Some songwriters (like George Harrison) have been sued when it was discovered that they'd released songs that had melodies from other songs in them.

[EricHG23]

It's JS Bach Minuet in G I *think*. It was one of the first pieces I learned on the violin back when I was 5 or so and in our first violin book we had three different Bach Minuets so I may have mixed it up with another one...

Moroder musta loved Bach--ie the last gorgeous synth track on the American Gigolo OST

[Noman]

I'm not sure what you mean, .

"A Lover's Concerto" - Toys and The Duel - Moroder version got the melody from Minuet in G major , composed by Christian Petzold. (transcribed by Bach in his notebook dedicated to his wife Anna Magdalena.)

My first thought was "A Lovers Symphony", another cover version of a classical piece (Beethoven - Fur Elise) made by Moroder 1973 (see the label above)

I mixed them up, therefore the first post.

I think it's free to use a composers work after he has been dead for 100 years or something like that...