Name that piece! The game

[Opus106]

Okay... Why not. I have uploaded a haunting snippet of a well-known composer (though many people wouldn't know his name...):


http://www.4shared.com/audio/1XpzCV7T/Mysterymusic_3.html

Orchestration of a tune by anonymous?

[Scarpia]

Nope.

Off by 200 years and 5000 miles, or close?  My second guess, The Edge.   

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

http://www.mediafire.com/?3bnp46ep6ndevh2


I have always found this passage very moving. How people wouldn't know the composer? Because they were busy not listening.

[Opus106]

It won't load for me - how mean! (I mean, not even the page, let alone matters of buffering).

Edit: oh now it's fine.

Same thing happened to me.

[Scarpia]

Same thing happened to me.

For me it loaded after a curious delay.  Maybe more patience is all that is needed.

[DavidW]

http://www.mediafire.com/?3bnp46ep6ndevh2


I have always found this passage very moving. How people wouldn't know the composer? Because they were busy not listening.

Oh I see not a mystery, we're just snobs!   Well this is your chance to open our ears to the composer, and my ears are wide open now!

[Scarpia]

Oh I see not a mystery, we're just snobs!   Well this is your chance to open our ears to the composer, and my ears are wide open now!

Is it a Saul?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Is it a Saul?

No.

Oh I see not a mystery, we're just snobs!   Well this is your chance to open our ears to the composer, and my ears are wide open now!

When you know who it is, you'll understand my hint is the simple truth... 


Added: I thought of uploading this because of an aspect of the Schreker fragment...

[Lethevich]

It comes tantalisingly close to recalling a mental association with something or other, but... ah, the association is as fragile and unreachable as the music of the excerpt.

It sounds northern, like something Peterson-Berger might write if he were inspired...

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

It comes tantalisingly close to recalling a mental association with something or other, but... ah, the association is as fragile and unreachable as the music of the excerpt.

It sounds northern, like something Peterson-Berger might write if he were inspired...

Haha!


There is something to that word 'northern', by the way. And your mental association with something else might be quite right...

[Opus106]

I have uploaded a haunting snippet of a well-known composer...

...of poems

though many people wouldn't know his name...

as a composer of music?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Another hint: the music was first heard in 19.... 59.

[Parsifal]

Yes I was thinking of something Scandinavian, something about the wind writing that reminds me of Sibelius

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Yes I was thinking of something Scandinavian, something about the wind writing that reminds me of Sibelius

Well, this composer wasn't British, though he liked British music, and he wasn't Scandinavian, though he liked Scandinavian music, too. I am a bit sly here. 'Northern' has more to do with the title than the content...

[Parsifal]

Well, this composer wasn't British, though he liked British music, and he wasn't Scandinavian, though he liked Scandinavian music, too. I am a bit sly here. 'Northern' has more to do with the title than the content...

So he probably wasn't French or German 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

So he probably wasn't French or German 

No. But his surname was German.

[Parsifal]

No. But his surname was German.

It's not my Roberto Gerhard!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

It's not my Roberto Gerhard!

No. But the German surname of my mystery composer could also be a first name (though it has one r too many).

[Parsifal]

No. But the German surname of my mystery composer could also be a first name (though it has one r too many).

BERNARD HERRMANN!