Identify that composer's PICTURE game!

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ritter

Oh...now it all fits in...finally!

La gazza ladra ===> Giuseppe Gazzaniga. Never heard a note by him, but remeber seeing (and being intrigued by) recordings of his Don Giovanni many years ago (when there used to be CD shops that stocked everything  :( ).

BTW, I do know (and enjoy very much) all of La gazza ladra (beautifully recorded by Katia Ricciarelli and Samuel Ramey, live from Pesaro under Gianluigi Gelmetti). Rossini at the top of his game (with a number that must have been inspired by "Mir ist so wunderbar" from Fidelio ). And , of course, the overture means a lot to many film fans...  :)

Well, Andrei usurped by "zz" trademark, but I pardon him (and AFAIK, Gazzaniga was not a "conductor-composer").

I'll think about something to post in the next hour... ;)


Florestan

Quote from: ritter on December 05, 2017, 04:58:41 AM
Oh...now it all fits in...finally!

La gazza ladra ===> Giuseppe Gazzaniga. Never heard a note by him, but remeber seeing (and being intrigued by) recordings of his Don Giovanni many years ago (when there used to be CD shops that stocked everything  :( ).

Yessss.

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BTW, I do know (and enjoy very much) all of La gazza ladra (beautifully recorded by Katia Ricciarelli and Samuel Ramey, live from Pesaro under Gianluigi Gelmetti). Rossini at the top of his game (with a number that must have been inspired by "Mir ist so wunderbar" from Fidelio ). And , of course, the overture means a lot to many film fans...  :)

Which recording, please? I'll wishlist on the spot.

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Well, Andrei usurped by "zz" trademark, but I pardon him.

Gioia e pace per mill'anni, vossignoria ilustrissima! Servitor vostro!

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I'll think about something to post in the next hour... ;)

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

ritter

#1002
Quote from: Florestan on December 05, 2017, 05:04:50 AM
Which recording, please? I'll wishlist on the spot.
L'incisione è questa:

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Gioia e pace per mill'anni, vossignoria ilustrissima! Servitor vostro!
Obbligato in verità...Basta, basta, per pietà...  ;D ;D ;D

Let's see, then... OK!

And now, for something completely different...Who's this chap?



Clues provided upon demand... ;)

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on December 05, 2017, 05:19:08 AM
L'incisione è questa:

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Muchissimas gracias, noble caballlero!

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Let's see, then...

OK! And now, for something completely different...Who's this chap?



Clues provided upon demand... ;)

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

ritter

Quote from: Florestan on December 05, 2017, 05:24:23 AM
East European?
No...and even less so if one applies our dear Christo's interpretation of geography  ;)

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on December 05, 2017, 05:29:44 AM
No...and even less so if one applies our dear Christo's interpretation of geography  ;)

I'm surprised... at first sight I thought he's Russian.

Okay, some poetic hint then? (these are my favorites, honestly).  :)
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

Quote from: Florestan on December 05, 2017, 05:34:05 AM
I'm surprised... at first sight I thought he's Russian.

Okay, some poetic hint then? (these are my favorites, honestly).  :)
This man wrote a very interesting opera, pioneering one could say (due to the subject matter)...

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on December 05, 2017, 05:43:23 AM
This man wrote a very interesting opera, pioneering one could say (due to the subject matter)...

As poetic as a skyscraper...  :laugh:
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

Mirror Image

Quote from: ritter on December 05, 2017, 05:43:23 AM
This man wrote a very interesting opera, pioneering one could say (due to the subject matter)...

Besides opera, did he write anything else interesting?

Florestan

Quote from: Mirror Image on December 05, 2017, 05:55:52 AM
Besides opera, did he write anything else interesting?

A love letter to his future wife?  :laugh:
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini


ritter

Quote from: Mirror Image on December 05, 2017, 05:55:52 AM
Besides opera, did he write anything else interesting?
Oh yes....think Albert Camus...

ritter

Quote from: Florestan on December 05, 2017, 05:54:53 AM
As poetic as a skyscraper...  :laugh:
OK then...

An opera so modern, and yet so distant,
A man from the cold, and yet his valley is in bloom




North Star

Quote from: Florestan on December 05, 2017, 05:54:53 AM
As poetic as a skyscraper...  :laugh:

Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes   
As apparitional as sails that cross
Some page of figures to be filed away;
—Till elevators drop us from our day ...
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

My photographs on Flickr

ritter

Quote from: North Star on December 05, 2017, 08:17:03 AM
Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes   
As apparitional as sails that cross
Some page of figures to be filed away;
—Till elevators drop us from our day ...

Well seen, Karlo! And, you know, the soundtrack to that is this:


North Star

Quote from: ritter on December 05, 2017, 08:25:16 AM
Well seen, Karlo! And, you know, the soundtrack to that is this:


Well there's the Sonny Rollins album The Bridge, named thus for his practicing on the Brooklyn Bridge. But yeah, it's probably not knotty enough.
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Turner

#1016
Quote from: ritter on December 05, 2017, 05:19:08 AM
L'incisione è questa:



Let's see, then... OK!

And now, for something completely different...Who's this chap?



Clues provided upon demand... ;)

I got your hint I think, thinking pioneering-> expedition -> space opera -> Aniara, by Karl Birger Blomdahl ...

vandermolen

Quote from: Turner on December 05, 2017, 09:29:05 AM
I got your hint I think, thinking pioneering-> expedition -> space opera -> Aniara, by Karl Birger Blomdahl ...

Well done! I knew he looked familiar. I like his Symphony 1 in particular. But don't know the space opera  although I  have a suite from it. An interesting choice.
"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).

Turner

#1018
I thought of posting Julie D´Aubigny / Mademoiselle Maupin, whose adventurous existence was larger than life and worth knowing about, but I won´t, since she was only an opera singer and didn´t compose anything.

https://kellygardiner.com/fiction/books/goddess/the-real-life-of-julie-daubigny/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny

In stead, it will be this experimental composer:



ritter

Quote from: Turner on December 05, 2017, 09:29:05 AM
I got your hint I think, thinking pioneering-> expedition -> space opera -> Aniara, by Karl Birger Blomdahl ...
Indeed. Well done!  :) And the Albert Camus hint was a reference to Blomdahl's ballet Sisyphos (which, by chance, as a very young man I saw a rehearsal of in Lucerne in 1975 under IIRC Antal Dorati).