Identify that composer's PICTURE game!

[pjme]

This was once a famous composer - one hit wonder in opera land.... our grand parents used to weep and sigh when listening to his sentimental melodies.
In the 19th century a famous sauce was invented with the same name - albeit not after this composer's name....

Mirror image has found a very interesting composer...it is NOT Scriabin...

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[Spineur]

This was once a famous composer - one hit wonder in opera land.... our grand parents used to weep and sigh when listening to his sentimental melodies.
In the 19th century a famous sauce was invented with the same name - albeit not after this composer's name....

Mirror image has found a very interesting composer...it is NOT Scriabin...

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Benjamin Godard ?

[Florestan]

Benjamin Godard ?

Looks like him, anyway. Has anyone tasted the Godard sauce, though?

[pjme]

Et oui.

A Sauce Godard is a classic French Sauce made from a Demi-Glacé with Reduced Champagne (or White Wine), a Mirepoix, Ham and Truffle Essence.
According to Auguste Escoffier, in Le Guide Culinaire, Sauce Godard is well suited to accompany Relevés, Braised or Roasted joints of Meat served with a Garnish.

Enjoy, while listening to the Berceuse from Jocelyn .

Let's go all the way...préparez vos mouchoirs...

https://www.youtube.com/v/jIWw16P4jwM

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[Spineur]

Looks like him, anyway. Has anyone tasted the Godard sauce, though?

I did not.  I have seen recipes for many variants, so I do not know the genuine one.

Many of them in french use truffles.  This one does not

http://chestofbooks.com/food/recipes/Culinary-Handbook/Sauces-And-Their-Uses-Part-8.html

Although I do enjoy the game a lot, I'll pass my turn for the time being as I am under a big pile of work and can check GMG only for brief moments

[Florestan]

Mirror image has found a very interesting composer...it is NOT Scriabin...

Come on, John, give us a hint.

[Mirror Image]

Come on, John, give us a hint.

Alright, fine, Andrei.

Hint: This composer completed the first Uzbek ballet and used original folk music from this country in the early 1930s.

[Florestan]

Alright, fine, Andrei.

Hint: This composer completed the first Uzbek ballet and used original folk music from this country in the early 1930s.

I couldn't have guessed him in a million years. He's dressed like 19th century. 

But at least I got the country right.

[Florestan]

Now, who is this?

[Spineur]

Now, who is this?

The receeding hair line the collar make me think it could be a portrait of Tchaikovsky I dont know.  So you see I am kind of unsure about this guess

[North Star]

The receeding hair line the collar make me think it could be a portrait of Tchaikovsky I dont know.  So you see I am kind of unsure about this guess

Apart from a receding hairline, the two look totally different..

[Mirror Image]

I couldn't have guessed him in a million years. He's dressed like 19th century. 

But at least I got the country right.

Since no one has guessed correctly, the composer in question is Nikolai Roslavets.

[Mirror Image]

Apart from a receding hairline, the two look totally different..

Indeed. Quite fair off the mark I'd say.

[Florestan]

Not Tchaikovksy.

Hint(s): he was the pupil and intimate friend of a much more famous composer and they were both expats.

[André]

Related to Wild Bill Hickok, that much is sure.

[Florestan]

Honestly, I don't see much resemblance between the two. The eyes, the noses, the chins, the frontal bones are obviously different. Even the moustaches have different shapes and colors.

[Turner]

Some more clues would be nice ... personally, I´m better in musical oeuvres than biographical details.

[Florestan]

He was an organist before leaving his home country. He regularly performed chamber music together with two of the most distinguished instrumentists of his country of adoption.

EDIT: his work is almost entirely dedicated to a single instrument, of which he was a master.

[Florestan]

Supplementary hint: had he been born 100 years earlier, he'd have had the same "citizenship" as Turner (the GMG member, that is, not the painter).

[Turner]

Then it is, of course, the Chopin student Thomas Tellefsen, from Norway. He´s had a bit of a Renaissance lately as regards recordings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tellefsen