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Florestan

Quote from: ritter on January 29, 2019, 04:39:16 AM
It's E.T.A Hoffmann, of course...

Finally!  :D

Was the hint helpful or you just had an epiphany?
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Christo

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Jo498

Why is Metallica a hint for Hoffmann?
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ritter

#183
Quote from: Florestan on January 29, 2019, 04:39:43 AM
Finally!  :D

Was the hint helpful or you just had an epiphany?
I had Hoffmann as my next (possibly last  ::)) name in the lineup of poet- (or philosopher-) composers. Then googled "Metallica Hoffmann", and the rest is history...

Here goes, then:

This composer's second opera had a successful première in a foreign country. Later, when it was scheduled to be performed in the composer's home country, the head of state personally intervened to have it prohibited. Composer and opera?

North Star

Quote from: Jo498 on January 29, 2019, 05:29:12 AM
Why is Metallica a hint for Hoffmann?
Der Sandmann.
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Florestan

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

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on January 29, 2019, 05:37:57 AM
This composer's second opera had a successful première in a foreign country. Later, when it was scheduled to be performed in the composer's home country, the head of state personally intervened to have it prohibited. Composer and opera?

It would be tempting to look for Hitler or Stalin but I have a hunch it's none of them.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

Quote from: Florestan on January 29, 2019, 11:27:15 AM
It would be tempting to look for Hitler or Stalin but I have a hunch it's none of them.
It's neither of them....

Florestan

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

ritter

Another clue, then:

The opera's libretto is adapted (by its prestigious author) from a bestselling novel. The novel is usually included in lists of the type "100 best 20th century novels in Spanish". Curiously, the novel was never censored in the home country of both composer and author. 

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on January 29, 2019, 11:57:02 PM
Another clue, then:

The opera's libretto is adapted (by its prestigious author) from a bestselling novel. The novel is usually included in lists of the type "100 best 20th century novels in Spanish". Curiously, the novel was never censored in the home country of both composer and author.

Thanks. What I infer from the above is that the author of the novel is also the author of the libretto and that he is from a different country than the composer. Is this correct?
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

mc ukrneal

Ah-ha. I was stuck in 19th century Europe, but I think you've pulled a fast one (haha) and moved to South America. Thus, my guess is Ginastera's Bomarzo.
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ritter

#192
Quote from: Florestan on January 30, 2019, 12:25:11 AM
Thanks. What I infer from the above is that the author of the novel is also the author of the libretto and that he is from a different country than the composer. Is this correct?
Novelist and librettist are one and the same person, and he and the composer are from the same country. To be exact, though, some sources say the composer's wife (whom he later divorced) had a substantial if uncredited role in the libretto.

mc ukrneal guess is correct!  :)


Florestan

#193
Believe it or not, yesterday I thought about Argentina, but under Peron, so obviously couldn't find anything.  :D

Clever!

Can hardly wait for Neal's one.

Oh, and this Mujica Lainez is certainly prestigious if you say so, but I've never heard of him.  :)
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

#194
Quote from: Florestan on January 30, 2019, 12:32:30 AM
Believe it or not, yesterday I thought about Argentina, but under Peron, so obviously couldn't find anything.  :D

Clever!

Can hardly wait for Neal's one.

Oh, and this Mujica Lainez is certainly prestigious if you say so, but I've never heard of him.  :)
Bomarzo is based on Manuel Mujica Lainez's novel of the same name. The opera was premiered in Washington to great acclaim, even if it was deemed rather daring (Der Spiegel's review was titled "Porno im Belcanto;D). Argentina's de facto president General Onganía told the head of the Teatro Colón "Look, either you strike Bomarzo from the season, or I shut down the theatre". Only 5 years later could the opera be performed in Buenos Aires.

Mujica is widely considered one of the great Argentine (or Spanish language, for that matter) novelists of the second half of the 20th century. Bomarzo is a long historical novel, but unmistakably Argentine in its psychoanalytic approach to the title character.

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on January 30, 2019, 12:37:56 AM
Bomarzo is based on Manuel Mujica Lainez's novel of the same name. The opera was premiered in Washington to great acclaim, even if it was deemed rather daring (Der Spiegel's review was titled "Porno im Belcanto;D). Argentina's de facto president General Onganía told the head of the Teatro Colón "Look, either you strike Bomarzo from the season, or I shut down the theatre". Only 5 years later could the opera be performed in Buenos Aires.

Mujica is widely considered one of the great Argentine (or Spanish language, for that matter) novelists of the second half of the 20th century. Bomarzo is a long historical novel, but unmistakably Argentine in its psychoanalytic approach to the title character.

Thanks for the info. Tough guy, this Ongania!  :D

The only Argentinian writers I'm familiar with are Borges and Sabato. And a guy who wrote "Don Segundo Sombra" but whose name I can't remember otomh.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

ritter

#196
Quote from: Florestan on January 30, 2019, 12:48:13 AM
Thanks for the info. Tough guy, this Ongania!  :D

The only Argentinian writers I'm familiar with are Borges and Sabato. And a guy who wrote "Don Segundo Sombra" but whose name I can't remember otomh.
He also prevented Bartók's The Miraclous Mandarin and Stravinsky's Sacre to be performed at the Colón, and forbade the screening of Antonioni's Blow Up in Argentine cinemas.:D

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on January 30, 2019, 12:53:17 AM
He also prevented Bartók's The Miraclous Mandarin and Stravinsky's Sacre to be performed at the Colón, and forbade the screening of Antonioni's Blow Up in Argentine cinemas.:D

Which means he was an avid reader of ballet and opera librettos and a cinephile, otherwise how could he have known about the subject matters?  ;D
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini

mc ukrneal

Let's try something a little different. I am going to list 6 composers. You will need to figure out how to get from composer 1 to 6 using works that they have written. SO to get from #1 to #2, you need to name the work that links them, Once you have the work that links #1 to #2, you will need to figure out the new work that links #2 to #3 and so on. For example, if composer #1 and #2 were Prokofiev and Berlioz, the linking work could be Romeo and Juliet. But keep in mind, there is no restriction in what the work might be. SO here we go:

#1: Strauss II
#2: Rossini
#3: Verdi
#4: Elgar
#5: Tchaikovsky
#6: Herbert

PS: In an interesting twist, #5 and #6 are interchangeable.
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Florestan

Quote from: mc ukrneal on January 30, 2019, 01:19:43 AM
Let's try something a little different. I am going to list 6 composers. You will need to figure out how to get from composer 1 to 6 using works that they have written. SO to get from #1 to #2, you need to name the work that links them, Once you have the work that links #1 to #2, you will need to figure out the new work that links #2 to #3 and so on. For example, if composer #1 and #2 were Prokofiev and Berlioz, the linking work could be Romeo and Juliet. But keep in mind, there is no restriction in what the work might be. SO here we go:

#1: Strauss II
#2: Rossini
#3: Verdi
#4: Elgar
#5: Tchaikovsky
#6: Herbert

PS: In an interesting twist, #5 and #6 are interchangeable.

Strauss II rto Rossini: Figaro-Polka op. 320
Rossini to Verdi: Otello
Verdi to Elgar: Falstaff
Elgar to Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Tchaikovskly to Herbert: Serenade for Strings
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Rossini