5 favourite composers with 5 letter first names

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

December 13, 2015, 03:27:11 AM
Who are your top 5? And a question for debate: does (Franz) Joseph Haydn count?

North Star

#1
December 13, 2015, 03:44:29 AM
Janne Sibelius
Franz Schubert
Alban Berg
Anton Bruckner
Karol Szymanowski


Morry Ravel
Leosh Janacek
Johan Sebastian Bach
Louis van Beethoven
Benny Britten
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ComposerOfAvantGarde

#2
December 13, 2015, 03:53:58 AM
You Finnish dude, using 'Janne' instead of 'Jean'

But no cheating like in your list below!!!! :laugh:

Brett Dean
Janne Sibelius
Anton Weben
Sally Beamish
Peter Sculthorpe

Sergeant Rock

#3
December 13, 2015, 04:31:25 AM
Louis Spohr
Franz Berwald
Felix Mendelssohn
César Franck
Hansi Rott  ;D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Dax

#4
December 13, 2015, 11:20:51 AM
Henry Cowell
Karol Szymanowski
Percy Grainger
Frank Martin
Serge Prokofiev

Florestan

#5
December 13, 2015, 12:56:21 PM Last Edit: December 13, 2015, 12:59:39 PM by Florestan
Franz (two)

Felix (two)

Louis

Piotr

Fritz

That makes seven , actually.  :D




Si un hombre nunca se contradice será porque nunca dice nada. —Miguel de Unamuno

Florestan

#6
December 13, 2015, 01:08:08 PM
Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on December 13, 2015, 03:53:58 AM
You Finnish dude, using 'Janne' instead of 'Jean'

That is actually c h e a p (5-letter word).  ;D
Si un hombre nunca se contradice será porque nunca dice nada. —Miguel de Unamuno

North Star

#7
December 13, 2015, 04:45:20 PM
Quote from: Florestan on December 13, 2015, 01:08:08 PM
That is actually c h e a p (5-letter word).  ;D
What is? His name is Janne, you know.
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Florestan

#8
December 14, 2015, 12:09:57 AM
Quote from: North Star on December 13, 2015, 04:45:20 PM
What is? His name is Janne, you know.

Johan Julius Christian, as far as I know. 5-letter either way.  :D
Si un hombre nunca se contradice será porque nunca dice nada. —Miguel de Unamuno

vandermolen

#9
December 14, 2015, 02:05:39 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Anton Bruckner
Moses Vainberg (Moisei Weinberg)
Robin Milford
Allan Pettersson

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

ritter

#10
December 14, 2015, 02:52:06 AM
This one is easy, although I'll have to make some spelling errors or address some composer with an inappropraite degree of overfamiliartity  ;):

Ricky Wagner
Pedro Boulez
Igorr Stravinsky
Claud Debussy
Wolfi Mozart

North Star

#11
December 14, 2015, 04:01:42 AM
Quote from: Florestan on December 14, 2015, 12:09:57 AM
Johan Julius Christian, as far as I know. 5-letter either way.  :D
Ah yes, his Christian (no pun intended) name. But he was always known as Janne before he took up his seafaring uncle's nickname.
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vandermolen

#12
December 14, 2015, 04:07:32 AM
+ Aaron Copland
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Karl Henning

#13
December 14, 2015, 09:32:00 AM
Quote from: Florestan on December 13, 2015, 12:56:21 PM
Piotr

Пётр, four letters, actually . . . .
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#14
December 14, 2015, 09:33:09 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on December 14, 2015, 02:05:39 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Glad I would not be the first!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

North Star

#15
December 14, 2015, 09:49:39 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on December 14, 2015, 02:05:39 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams
I shouldn't have forgotten good old Rafe.  :-[
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Karl Henning

#16
December 14, 2015, 09:59:59 AM
Louis Couperin
Franz Liszt
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Peter Mennin
Frank Zappa
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#17
December 14, 2015, 10:03:38 AM
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a substitution:

Louis Couperin
Franz Liszt
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Peter Mennin
И́горь Фёдорович Страви́нский
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

ritter

#18
December 14, 2015, 12:06:39 PM Last Edit: December 14, 2015, 12:13:20 PM by ritter
OK...a legitimate list :

Anton B.
Anton W.
Alban B.
Ernst K.
Franz L.
Luigi D.  (sorry,  Franz  :-[ )

SimonNZ

#19
December 14, 2015, 02:41:37 PM
Oldies:

Tomas Luis de Victoria
Jacob Obrecht
Carlo Gesualdo
Henry Purcell
Jacob Clemens non Papa

Newies:

Kaija Saariaho
Henri Dutilleux
Unsuk Chin
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Sofia Gubaidulina
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