Identify that composer's PICTURE game!

Started by Rhymenoceros, October 09, 2017, 01:06:59 PM

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Florestan

Quote from: Spineur on October 23, 2017, 02:51:33 AM
I'll wait until the US/Canada GMG's wake up before giving a hint.

Of course.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

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I wonder if another hint will be offered? The composer in question looks familiar, but I don't want to make any guesses without some kind of clue.

Spineur

OK here comes a hint.  The brother is a mathematician.  It is kind of a giveaway, so you have to be quick.

ritter


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Quote from: Spineur on October 22, 2017, 11:58:43 PM
Yes MI got it right away.  The other two composers are Lev Conus, Nikita Morozov.  If Morozov isnt totally forgotten, Lev Conus is.

Since this was too easy, here is another one.  The two gentelmen pictured below were brothers.  One of them was a composer.  Who is he and who is his brother..

Lyapunov!

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Florestan

Never heard of his brother until now.  ;D

Had I been more thorough in my research I could have found them earlier today. I was one inch close.  :(
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Spineur

#327
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 23, 2017, 06:58:59 AM
I see Rafael beat me to the punch!
AsI said, it was kind of a giveaway: there are lists of 20th century mathematicians and you just had to go down the list until you hit a composer's name.  Anyway Lyapunov, the composer, has his own thread here and many people like him.  The advances oh his brother, the mathematician, are used everyday in meteorology, and more generally any field where instabilities exist.  This include financial markets and politics.  I have seen recently Lyapunov cascade models applied to the Catalan/Spanish standoff.  I have not seen a Trumpian model yet...

Anyway it is Rafael turn now.  I am done for a while

ritter

#328
Yes, the mathematician info was a giveaway... But that was a tough one, Spineur, well played!

Who is this young man with his mother?



Most pictures we know of him are from his mature years, but the face is unmistakable...

N.B.: Google image search will NOT help on this occasion. Precautionary measures have been taken.  8)



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He looks so familiar, Rafael. Could you give us a hint?

ritter

Quote from: Mirror Image on October 23, 2017, 07:20:57 AM
He looks so familiar, Rafael. Could you give us a hint?
"Urbi Venetiae, in laudo Sancti sui Presidis"
8)

Florestan

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

Quote from: Florestan on October 23, 2017, 07:32:39 AM
Don't tell me this is Stravinsky!
Of course not....but, this man has a lot to do with that quotation... ;)

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Florestan

Quote from: ritter on October 23, 2017, 07:34:27 AM
Of course not....but, this man has a lot to do with that quotation... ;)

Hmmm... Venetian-born, baptized Marco, possibly?

Ni puta idea, to quote you.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

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Quote from: Florestan on October 23, 2017, 07:40:01 AM
Hmmm... Venetian-born, baptized Marco, possibly?

Ni puta idea, to quote you.
Not Venetian-born, and not Marco... But still, a lot to do with that line from Canticum Sacrum.

Nationality? Born under the "k. u. k." monarchy  ;)




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ritter

No... but tangentially related to that lot, so a good guess. And the name Webern is close to this man as well for another (musical) reason...

This man was very much alive when the Canticum Sacrum was composed, and played a (not strictly musical) rôle in that piece's genesis.


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ritter

#339
Indeed!  Which clue was decisive, if I may ask?

Krenek (who was fluent in Latin) wrote the text for the introductory section  of the Canticum Sacrum at Stravinsky's request, and also composed the Symphonic Elegy (in memoriam Anton Webern).

Your turn, Sir!