Favourite composer names.

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Artem

#20
October 21, 2018, 02:42:54 AM
Nono

vandermolen

#21
October 21, 2018, 02:51:16 AM
"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

#22
October 22, 2018, 11:15:27 PM
Gretchaninov and Liadov/Lyadov

Rootham
"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).

Christo

#23
October 22, 2018, 11:53:20 PM
Van den Budenmayer
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

vandermolen

#24
October 23, 2018, 12:42:13 AM Last Edit: October 23, 2018, 09:13:36 AM by vandermolen
Simeon ten Holt

Alphons Diepenbrock
"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).

pjme

#25
October 23, 2018, 12:54:18 AM
Aram Katchaturian (Chatchaturjan - Katsjatoerian - Արամ Խաչատրյան, Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян) - strange & exotic & catchy


French baroque = poetry!

Louis de Caix d'Hervelois
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre


Germaine Tailleferre (originally Taillefesse!)

From Belgium

Henry-George d'Hoedt

Eugène (and Théo) Ysaÿe

From Sweden

Gunnar de Frummerie

Christo

#26
October 23, 2018, 01:16:22 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on October 23, 2018, 12:42:13 AM
Simeon ten Holt
Adolphus Diepenbrock
In that case I'ld like to add:
Ludwig Felix Brandts Buys
Luctor Ponse
Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer
Theo Loevendie
Cornelis Dopper
Rudolf Escher
Johannes Ockeghem
Daan Manneke
Pieter Hellendaal
Ton de Leeuw
Clemens non Papa
Jochem Slothouwer
Richard Rijnvos
Marius Monnikendam
Robin de Raaff
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer
Herman Strategier
Hans Kox
Tera de Marez Oyens
Oscar van Hemel
Léon Orthel
Lucas Vis
Alexander Voormolen


... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

pjme

#27
October 23, 2018, 01:46:41 AM
....it is Alphons Diepenbrock.

Names are poetry - sometimes they are (when translated) funny, occasionally weird or unpleasant...

Germaine Tailleferre's both parents had the name Taillefesse  (buttock pruner) . Around 1913 Germaine decided that she would become a "Taileferre", a "hewer of iron" - the surname of a Norman minstrel.

Belgian composer Marcel Poot ( pronounced "poht" - a "poot" is an animal's leg ....or even (old fashioned) slang for homosexual....)

I like:Arno Babadjanian, Josip Štolcer-Slavenski , Edith Canat de Chizy

Maestro267

#28
October 23, 2018, 03:17:04 AM
Surprised no one's mentioned Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf yet.

Another name that could generate headline puns is Francis Chagrin.

Biffo

#29
October 23, 2018, 05:23:34 AM
Seeing Christopher Gibbons in Purchases Today reminded me of Grinling Gibbons - a woodcarver and sculptor, not a composer so not really eligible but a pleasing name all the same.

The new erato

#30
October 23, 2018, 05:23:51 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on October 23, 2018, 12:42:13 AM


Adolphus Diepenbrock
I'll see you and raise you one Adolphus Hailstork.

Archaic Torso of Apollo

#31
October 23, 2018, 06:14:31 AM
forgot to mention Pierre de la Rue ("Pete from the Street")
formerly VELIMIR (before that, Spitvalve)

"Who knows not strict counterpoint, lives and dies an ignoramus" - CPE Bach

Brian

#32
October 23, 2018, 06:27:05 AM
Some really great names in here already and not many left to add... but nobody has mentioned Engelbert Humperdinck! Or Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, or Sofia Gubaidulina, or Hyacinthe Jadin, or Georges Auric, or Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nurnburger-bratwustle-gernspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shonedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm!

Brian

#33
October 23, 2018, 06:28:10 AM
Potentially off topic if his name was boring, but what was the name of that French composer from c. 1900-1920 who was friends with everybody else and then died super young (but I think not in the war) and left like 1 or 2 CDs' worth of music?

ritter

#34
October 23, 2018, 06:46:53 AM
One born on a boat during a crossing from Le Havre to Honfleur? A crossing, btw, which is really, really short!  ;D

Biffo

#35
October 23, 2018, 07:02:26 AM
Quote from: Brian on October 23, 2018, 06:27:05 AM
Some really great names in here already and not many left to add... but nobody has mentioned Engelbert Humperdinck! Or Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, or Sofia Gubaidulina, or Hyacinthe Jadin, or Georges Auric, or Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nurnburger-bratwustle-gernspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shonedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm!

I think you are confusing him with Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere di Suppé-Demelli, alias Franz von Suppe, composer of several warhorse overtures

Ken B

#36
October 23, 2018, 07:52:44 AM
Delphin Strungk

Biffo

#37
October 23, 2018, 08:19:16 AM
Quote from: ritter on October 23, 2018, 06:46:53 AM
One born on a boat during a crossing from Le Havre to Honfleur? A crossing, btw, which is really, really short!  ;D

If the Pont de Normandie had been open where would he/she have been born?

If the parents had been English probably at the tollbooth while they faffed around trying to change a 50 euro note ('We don't have anything smaller').

Brian

#38
October 23, 2018, 08:32:41 AM
Quote from: Biffo on October 23, 2018, 07:02:26 AM
I think you are confusing him with Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere di Suppé-Demelli, alias Franz von Suppe, composer of several warhorse overtures
One of which (Light Cavalry) I am listening to right this very second.

Ghost of Baron Scarpia

#39
October 23, 2018, 08:44:40 AM
Quote from: Brian on October 23, 2018, 08:32:41 AM
One of which (Light Cavalry) I am listening to right this very second.

If you're not listening to Solti/London Philharmonic, just turn it off...

:)
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