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vandermolen

October 18, 2018, 10:50:03 PM
I don't mean favourite composer but favourite composer names, a stupid idea, I agree, but here are mine (three allowed):

Glazunov

Ippolitov-Ivanov

Miaskovsky (spelt that way)

Maybe I have a thing for Russian names?
"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).

Biffo

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October 19, 2018, 12:49:22 AM
Yesterday I found out Franck's full name - César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck - Blimey!

vandermolen

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October 19, 2018, 02:32:48 AM
Quote from: Biffo on October 19, 2018, 12:49:22 AM
Yesterday I found out Franck's full name - César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck - Blimey!

Excellent!
Thanks
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71 dB

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October 19, 2018, 02:38:43 AM
I like the French composer names: Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Clérambault, Rameau, Charpentier, Couperin,...

Camille Saint-Saëns is maybe my all time favorite name of a classical music composer.
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October 19, 2018, 03:04:29 AM
Quote from: 71 dB on October 19, 2018, 02:38:43 AM
I like the French composer names: Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Clérambault, Rameau, Charpentier, Couperin,...

Camille Saint-Saëns is maybe my all time favorite name of a classical music composer.

Excellent! I like Saint-Saens as a name, as well as his Organ Symphony!
"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).

vandermolen

#5
October 20, 2018, 12:48:35 AM
Silly me. I should have included Lyatoshinsky (Lyatoshynsky), Balanchivadze and Philip Spratley as well.
"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).

calyptorhynchus

#6
October 20, 2018, 11:25:28 AM
David Diamond for me, the alliteration, plus the fact that in Cockney and Australian slang a 'diamond' is someone who is a bit of a spiv, but kind of likeable at the same time.
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October 20, 2018, 11:39:31 AM
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Easiest name to roll off the tounge... Arvo Pärt

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#9
October 20, 2018, 12:56:47 PM
Langgaard automatically comes to my mind  :D

Janacek, Hausegger, Herzogenberg, Weingartner, Bantock, Hindemith, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, Scharwenka, Fitzenhagen, Chaminade, Diepenbrock, Stravinsky also appeal to me.

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October 20, 2018, 01:27:54 PM
Quote from: bwv 1080 on October 20, 2018, 12:04:30 PM
Grimace

Yeah, Grimace is good. I also like Moondog, and Clemens non Papa ("Clement, but not the Pope of that name").

Also Xenakis, because it starts with an X.

I also like the fact that the names Mozart and Beethoven are so rare that I can't think of anyone else with that name. There's a story about Franz Schmidt being advised to change his name by a teacher, because it was "too ordinary" to make him stand out as a composer.
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#11
October 20, 2018, 02:30:04 PM
Quote from: calyptorhynchus on October 20, 2018, 11:25:28 AM
David Diamond for me, the alliteration, plus the fact that in Cockney and Australian slang a 'diamond' is someone who is a bit of a spiv, but kind of likeable at the same time.

Very nice. Thanks. One of my favourite composers.
"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).

bwv 1080

#12
October 20, 2018, 03:22:03 PM
Quote from: Archaic Torso of Apollo on October 20, 2018, 01:27:54 PM
Clemens non Papa ("Clement, but not the Pope of that name")

Cool did not know that

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#13
October 20, 2018, 04:01:31 PM
Havergal Brian, of course  8)


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October 20, 2018, 10:25:13 PM
Quote from: Biffo on October 19, 2018, 12:49:22 AM
Yesterday I found out Franck's full name - César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck - Blimey!
Why did he drop the Blimey?    ;D

Biffo

#15
October 21, 2018, 12:09:38 AM
Quote from: brunumb on October 20, 2018, 10:25:13 PM
Why did he drop the Blimey?    ;D

Probably thought it too much or possibly it is just common usage, like Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy is usually known as Felix Mendelssohn

schnittkease

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October 21, 2018, 12:12:34 AM
Quote from: Biffo on October 21, 2018, 12:09:38 AM
Probably thought it too much or possibly it is just common usage, like Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy is usually known as Felix Mendelssohn

I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic... :-\

Biffo

#17
October 21, 2018, 01:39:02 AM
Quote from: schnittkease on October 21, 2018, 12:12:34 AM
I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic... :-\

Therein lies the artifice!

vandermolen

#18
October 21, 2018, 01:46:16 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 20, 2018, 04:01:31 PM
Havergal Brian, of course  8)


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A friend of mine called Brian Williams, on my introducing him to the music of Havergal Brian, said that he wanted to change his name to 'Williams Brian'.
"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).

vandermolen

#19
October 21, 2018, 01:48:38 AM
Yes, I like Langgaard and Granville Bantock as well.

How could I forget Klaus Egge?  :o

Thanks for all the replies, all read with much interest. I thought this thread would sink without trace (not unusual for me 8))
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