Create the Perfect Composer Name Game

[snyprrr]

If I were to write any music, I most certainly wouldn't want to use my real name (unless.... I could hyphenate! ). I just don't think my name has what it takes to make it in the Real World (but, then again, Philip Glass ).

I believe the Perfect Composer Name must have some form Michaelangelicus in it, or Baron Antonius Adolf Messierschmidt-Rhye, or, my personal favorite, simply:

The Great Adolphus (cue trumpet fanfare!)

kinda like Moondog, or wotnot. What do you think?



Italian names do it for me: Niccolo Castiglioni Scodanibbio, Arditti, Sciarrino, Dallapiccola

Then there's Hambraeus.



Curtis Curtis-Smith?? Whaaaat? R U Kidding Me? That passes for a Composer Name??? Uh uh. Nope. That won't cut it on This Thread.

Poul Ruders?? eh,...no.



Please, has anyone else obsesed over this? What's yer perfect name?

[Lethevich]

Mozart and Beethoven win even the best names stakes

[Opus106]

Anonymous.

[Gurn Blanston]

Gottlieb Uwe Reinwald Nepomuk von Hohenzollern. It rolls so trippingly off the tongue, don't you think?

[Lethevich]

Oliphant Chuckerbutty, according to the ever reliable Wikipedia may or may not have a full name which extends to:

Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty

[Cato]

There are several candidates for the perfect Composer Name!  Imagine if Beethoven were named Larry O'Reilly: would anyone listen to the Eroica Symphony with the same ears?   

So the premise here is interesting: a composer of great music must have a great name, evoking the severest competence and the highest intellectuality dusted with the powdered sugar of spiritually exotic esoterica.

SO...if you are Larry O'Reilly and have a desk drawer dripping with a 21st-century Eroica, rather than 21st-century Erotica, then you can choose from among these candidates and become:

Gilka Kimo   

Ossip Pepito   

and my favorite

Professor Theodore Von Schwarzenhoffen Ph.D., M.D., LL.D., D.D.S. and F.F.F.F.   

[snyprrr]

Yes, Larry O'Reilly,...poor guy.

Yes, I forgot, there must be a "von" in there.

Chuckerbutty,...that's funny!

[Luke]

Busoni's full name really gave the boy something to live up to, if you ask me:

Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni

[karlhenning]

No pressure there, Ferucc'!

[Superhorn]

   For the best composer name you have to see one of the Monty Python episodes,I forget whcih one, where one of the fellows  played an elderly German composer with an unbelievably long name and was being given a mock interview.  The staggeringly long name ends with "Auf Ulm". The name takes at least three minutes to recite, and the composer expires during the interview.Priceless!!!


                                                                               

[karlhenning]

Doesn't materially affect your post, but the old interviewee was actually the composer's only surviving relative, Karl Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm

[Mirror Image]

How about Gunnar Rikard Ganneriksson? This composer would be born in 1891 in Stockholm, Sweden and died in 1948 in Bern, Switerzerland of a cerebral hemorrhage while vacationing with his wife. Ganneriksson studied privately with Hugo Alfven, but was largely self-taught as a composer. He began his composing career as a late-Romantic influenced by Richard Strauss, but after witnessing Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," decided to strip his music down to it's very essence and compose in a leaner, more concise Neo-Classical style. He composed 7 symphonies, left the 8th unfinished, 1 opera, 3 concertos, 1 ballet, 3 string quartets, 1 piano quartet, 2 large-scale choral works, and numerous film scores.

[snyprrr]

OK, can we change gears?

I'm thinking TODAY. If you look at the Hot100 Classical (haha,...I know ), think of all the recent "famous" Classical Composers. What do we have? What is the trend?

Philip Glass
Morton Feldman

H. Gorecki

Osvaldo Golijov
Astor Piazzolla

Tan Dun
Chinary Ung

Jay Greenberg (uh, cough :-\cough )

Thomas Ades (now,...how bout thaaat for a last name?)



Looks like multiculturalism is the name of the game. How would our Classically Named Composer fare in such a world?



Chim Chim Tandory


Or, again, a single name: Malakai!

ok,...Bob Jones. (George Crumb??)

Hennessy Brougham Cardier-Johnson

Archduke Merle

Malte Vikkssonn

Kimmambulandulao Tal

Yo! DJ Retrograde

Lampton-Bowlan Hrfrerriere

Sparkles

[CD]

I'm attracted to the name Bronius Kutavičius (never heard his music however).

Also: Pehr Henrik Nordgren, Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, Gösta Nystrœm

[snyprrr]

I'm attracted to the name Bronius Kutavičius (never heard his music however).

Also: Pehr Henrik Nordgren, Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, Gösta Nystrœm

Yes, those are some good ones. Nordgren's whole name is just towering! Magnus Lindberg is pretty good too, but then, most Finnish names got something going on.

Like,... Schnittke,... eh, mmmm, not so much.

Berio? ZZzzzzzzzz...zzzz....zzzz...



Boulez gets Triple Word Score for ending in "z".



ok,...it just hit me. The Perfect First Name has to be: Zandor!

and yes, names ending in "-us" get extra points.



Obviously, corey, if you start writing, you're going to have to change your first name!

[Brian]

How about Gunnar Rikard Ganneriksson?

While we're up in that part of the world, I'd like to pause to admire the glorious name of the man who wrote Iceland's national anthem and some bland romantic chamber music: Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson.

[snyprrr]

While we're up in that part of the world, I'd like to pause to admire the glorious name of the man who wrote Iceland's national anthem and some bland romantic chamber music: Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson.

THAAAT'S...OUR WINNER!!

The name alone conjures 18 symphonies, each over an hour's worth of pastoral green, brown, blue-greys. And 40 SQs!! Very Aschenbach!

[Cato]

THAAAT'S...OUR WINNER!!

The name alone conjures 18 symphonies, each over an hour's worth of pastoral green, brown, blue-greys. And 40 SQs!! Very Aschenbach!

Gustav Von Aschenbach  0:)

And not to be forgotten:

Adrian Leverkühn     

[Benji]

Sir Reg Ularly-Composalot

Lord Adam Bigge-Oeuvre, third Earl of Chutney

or a bit more continental...

Ivana Penatuneorteux

[karlhenning]

third Earl of Chutney

Love it.