How/Why Did You Choose Your Username?

[prémont]

A triode?

I also considered this, but there is an "e" too much,

[Florestan]

My username is a Frenchization of a Latinization of my real name.

Førbjerg? 

[prémont]

It's my real name.

What does W.A. stand for?

[Florestan]

I also considered this, but there is an "e" too much,

Maybe he wouldn't want to give it away.   

[ritter]

The first username I ever used online (in a Spanish language opera forum) was Parsifal. That forum had to migrate to another platform or something, and we all had to re-register. By then, I thought a less grandiloquent name made more sense, so I settled for ritter (there's plenty of Ritter —knights— in Wagner and in opera in general). I've used that name ever since in any forums I participate (which aren't many, TBH).

I use lowercase just to avoid having to hit the shift key every time I write it...

[ritter]

Current one only my partner knows about, so get to know me better than her and you'll find out 

Whenever I read your username, I think of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and of the Atreidae.

[prémont]

Førbjerg? 

If it was that it should be Forbjerg. However I don't want my real name mentioned in the forum, since it's relatively rare.

[Florestan]

I don't want my real name mentioned in the forum, since it's relatively rare.

Oh, it was just a jesting guess. 

[prémont]

You must have a split personality, then, because in another forum your real name is Hans Zimmer. 

Maybe it was Hans Zimmer who composed the works ascribed to WA Mozart. Something for Robert Newmann to think about.

[Iota]

I had no idea what to call myself when signing up, and the first thing that came to mind as something I liked was 'Io', one of Jupiter's moons that I've always found rather striking. From that came Iota, which as the Greek letter representing the sound 'i' seemed to fit, as it was 'I' would be doing the posting, and finally I liked the feeling of insignificance it implied.
So to answer the question, it was the best I could come up with at the time. 

[W.A. Mozart]

What does W.A. stand for?

Wolfgang Amadeus

[prémont]

Copilot says:
As of today, there are no living individuals with the name Mozart. The Mozart family, which includes the renowned composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, has left a lasting legacy in the world of music and art. However, the direct lineage of the Mozart family has not continued to the present day

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I've been through several usernames. I started here way long ago as Walter Bruno, which struck me as an appropriately musical made-up name. I then went through a series of short-lived names (Otto Skadelig, Contents under Pressure, and Spitvalve) before settling on Velimir for a few years. This was chosen in honor of the Russian avant-garde poet Velimir Khlebnikov, the only person with that name I can think of. Eventually I switched from Slavic poetry to Germanic with Archaic Torso of Apollo (a poem by Rilke). There's no real rhyme or reason to this; I just like poetic or musical references.

[Holden]

Mine came about indirectly from a friend of mine. As I always seemed to have an opinion and wasn't afraid to share what I thought ad nauseum she said to me - "You're always 'holding forth' about something or other. A couple of spelling changes and 'voila, it became Holden4th. I've shortened it to Holden for this forum.

[Luke]

Wise, I'm not sure Holden wrote a 4th anything...

[(poco) Sforzando]

For a long while I went by my real name, but on another music forum I christened myself "Alban Berg." I figured that if I were to become a composer, I might as well become the best. Not sure where "Sforzando" came from. I think it was because I had gotten a reputation for being curmudgeonly and nasty, a reputation I have since cheerfully passed on to others on the forum. And I liked the phrase in my signature, which was written by our dear friend and now moderator Brian Reinhart. The "poco" part was suggested by someone who thought "sforzando" by itself was too brusque. But as any musician knows, a note is either played sforzando or it's not, so the poco part of it is thoroughly oxymoronic. Perhaps to celebrate my newfound sweetness I should rename myself to "lusingando," which I also don't know what it means but it must mean something.

[Atriod]

Maybe he wouldn't want to give it away.   

You've got one half of it. The other half's hint is that aside from a Beethoven symphony it was one of my earliest classical music memories. I really won't say anymore as this hint narrows it down a bit too much 

[Atriod]

I had no idea what to call myself when signing up, and the first thing that came to mind as something I liked was 'Io', one of Jupiter's moons that I've always found rather striking. From that came Iota, which as the Greek letter representing the sound 'i' seemed to fit, as it was 'I' would be doing the posting, and finally I liked the feeling of insignificance it implied.
So to answer the question, it was the best I could come up with at the time. 

I like this answer. If I was independently wealthy I would have went into astrophysics. When I first starting ripping my collection in 2004 I started naming the folders that EAC points to after Jupiter's moons. I think that is roughly a dozen different moon names from the various PCs over the years. 

A log from what I was listening to earlier:

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Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016

EAC extraction logfile from 13. May 2020, 11:58

Claudio Arrau / Beethoven, Schumann, Schoenberg BBC Legends (BBCL 4162-2)

Used drive  : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GT33N   Adapter: 1  ID: 0

Read mode               : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache      : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction                      : 103
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks   : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations       : Yes
Used interface                              : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling                                : Appended to previous track

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Selected bitrate                : 128 kBit/s
Quality                         : High
Add ID3 tag                     : No
Command line compressor         : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "ALBUM ARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "COMMENT=EAC Secure Mode, Test & Copy, AccurateRip, FLAC -8" %source%


TOC of the extracted CD

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        2  |  5:44.15 |  2:08.48 |     25815    |    35462  
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        4  | 11:22.65 |  5:42.18 |     51215    |    76882  
        5  | 17:05.08 | 14:22.07 |     76883    |   141539  
        6  | 31:27.15 |  7:07.58 |    141540    |   173622  
        7  | 38:34.73 | 11:39.65 |    173623    |   226112  
        8  | 50:14.63 |  3:53.69 |    226113    |   243656  
        9  | 54:08.57 |  7:42.07 |    243657    |   278313  
       10  | 61:50.64 |  2:15.11 |    278314    |   288449  


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Track  3

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Track  5

     Filename C:\Aitne\05 - Robert Schumann - Fantasy in C major, op. 17- I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen - Adagio.wav

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     Filename C:\Aitne\07 - Robert Schumann - Fantasy in C major, op. 17- III. Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten-Etwas bewegter.wav

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Track  8

     Filename C:\Aitne\08 - Arnold Schönberg - Drei Klavierstücke, op. 11- I. Mäßige.wav

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Track  9

     Filename C:\Aitne\09 - Arnold Schönberg - Drei Klavierstücke, op. 11- II. Mäßige.wav

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Track 10

     Filename C:\Aitne\10 - Arnold Schönberg - Drei Klavierstücke, op. 11- III. Bewegte.wav

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All tracks accurately ripped

No errors occurred

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