Mostly unlikely Nationality of Composer in your Collection

[Florestan]

[DaveF]

Not fair - wouldn't many of the great figures of the Renaissance have been Dutch if Dutch had been invented then? - Ciconia, Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Josquin, Obrecht, Clemens and many more.

Sadly, my own unlikely composer is Grace Williams.  (No hidden Renaissance treasures for Wales - our two composers, Tomkins and Bull, were both accidents of birth.)

DF

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Not fair - wouldn't many of the great figures of the Renaissance have been Dutch if Dutch had been invented then? - Ciconia, Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Josquin, Obrecht, Clemens and many more.

Belgian actually - most of them were from Flanders or Wallonia. In their own day, they were "Burgundian" mostly.

[Florestan]

Not fair - wouldn't many of the great figures of the Renaissance have been Dutch if Dutch had been invented then? - Ciconia, Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Josquin, Obrecht, Clemens and many more.

See below. 

Belgian actually - most of them were from Flanders or Wallonia. In their own day, they were "Burgundian" mostly.

Yes, exactly.

I wonder whether Dufay, Binchois and Josquin des Prez ever spoke Dutch... 

But now that I think of it, the OP put it this way: "the country is not exactly known for producing composers of classical music." Romania fits in too. Besides Enescu, what other Romanian composer are you aware of? 

[ibanezmonster]

I have a few Ubloobideega CDs. He's the only composer on planet Ubloobideega, and I would imagine that no one else here has his stuff, and his nationality is the most unlikely, so I win this thread. Time to lock it up. THEND

[springrite]

But now that I think of it, the OP put it this way: "the country is not exactly known for producing composers of classical music." Romania fits in too. Besides Enescu, what other Romanian composer are you aware of? 

Lipatti?

Well, at least they have Enescu. What about Yugoslavia? Ivanovic?

[North Star]

But now that I think of it, the OP put it this way: "the country is not exactly known for producing composers of classical music." Romania fits in too. Besides Enescu, what other Romanian composer are you aware of? 

Radulescu, of course!!

[springrite]

Radulescu, of course!!

THere you go!

[DaveF]

Belgian actually - most of them were from Flanders or Wallonia. In their own day, they were "Burgundian" mostly.

Damn - and I was just about to post [asin]B00000419D[/asin]

[dyn]

Radulescu, of course!!

Iancu Dimitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram, Aurel Stroe, Costin Miereanu, Stefan Niculescu, Ilhan Mimaroglu, etc, etc...

not that it matters much since most major romanian composers worked in, or became closely associated with composers from, other more "musically mainstream" countries like france or america.

and if you're going to do the whole "cultural and ethnic background" thing Yugoslavia doesn't count as a country*, it has to be broken down into Slovenia (Vinko Globokar, etc), Croatia (Ivo Malec, etc), Serbia (Marko Nikodijevic, etc) ...

* I suppose neither does America for that matter

On topic, i'm not presently aware of any Philippine composers other than José Maceda.

[Dax]

Ilhan Mimaroglu - Turkish, surely!

[North Star]

Ilhan Mimaroglu - Turkish, surely!

Fazil Say, too!

[dyn]

Ilhan Mimaroglu - Turkish, surely!

Regardless, that's certainly another country not known for producing large numbers of (Western) classical musicians...

[Holden]

Douglas Lilburn - New Zealand

[jut1972]

I have a few Ubloobideega CDs. He's the only composer on planet Ubloobideega, and I would imagine that no one else here has his stuff, and his nationality is the most unlikely, so I win this thread. Time to lock it up. THEND

I've got some of his stuff.
That one he did with Lennon and McCartney.

Ubloobideega ub li dah.

Also Golijov -the Ayre song cycle with Upshaw - so that's Argentina crossed off.

[kyjo]

Another "rare nationality" I have in my collection is Belarus. I have three Olympia discs of the music Belorussian composers Dmitri Smolsky, Vladimir Soltan and Yevgeni Glebov that are worthwhile listening but not anything I'll be returning to often:

   

I also have Bulgaria represented in my collection, most of the CDs being of Pancho Vladigerov's wonderful music. Bulgarian National Radio has issued quite a few discs of the music of obscure Bulgarian composers, which I'm in the process of collecting.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I have an LP I bought in the 1970s of his string quartet #4. 

I have an electronic piece by Mimaroglu in my collection, bearing the cheerful title Agony. It's the flip side to Berio's Visage, a truly creepy and disturbing piece of music.

[ibanezmonster]

I've got some of his stuff.

Hehe, didn't know you were into the interplanetary black market. 
A lot of planets have banned his music... there's one piece he wrote that killed off the entire Zyglonian alien race, because it is so aurally painful to listen to, and their ears are connected to their hearts, which stopped beating upon listening.

[jut1972]

think I'll leave it in the listening pile then

[vandermolen]

Apart from Respighi, Malipiero and Casella I don't have much Italian music in my collection. No special reason for this but maybe my lack of interest/understanding of opera has something to do with it. Much the same goes for Spain or Greece.