The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the English name of Goethe's poem Der Zauberlehrling (1797). The name also refers to Paul Dukas' (October 1, 1865- May 17, 1935) L'apprenti sorcier, a symphonic poem in the form of a scherzo written in 1897 which was inspired by Goethe's poem. Goethe, in turn, had got the idea from Lucian's story of Philopseudes. Dukas was a Parisian-born French composer and teacher of classical music. Also used in Disney's Fantasia (for that matter, so were many others which you can find in uncle mikey's zoo, if you look hard enough, including Beethoven's Sixth Symphony Pastoral, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Schubert's Ave Maria, and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, among others).
