Which composers do you associate with which GMG members?

[jochanaan]

...Somebody please correct me if I am mistaken??

No, you're right, marvinbrown.  For some reason none of the 19th-century European royals and nobles liked seeing themselves depicted so unflatteringly.  Especially when it was the truth. (I could throw in a tart comment about King George II of America, but his spooks are probably watching. )

[marvinbrown]

No, you're right, marvinbrown.  For some reason none of the 19th-century European royals and nobles liked seeing themselves depicted so unflatteringly.  Especially when it was the truth. (I could throw in a tart comment about King George II of America, but his spooks are probably watching. )

   Yes those historical leaders were known to misbehave.....mind you today's leaders aren't any better, I think Bill Clinton would make a GREAT Duke for a modern adaptation of Rigoletto, but as usual I digress    !!


  marvin

  PS: back to the topic at hand nobody has posted those GMG members most closely associated with Puccini  ?? 

[Lethevich]

  PS: back to the topic at hand nobody has posted those GMG members most closely associated with Puccini  ?? 

I think 71dB rather likes him

[Lady Chatterley]

 
... nobody has posted those GMG members most closely associated with Puccini  ?? 

That is strange?

[karlhenning]

Puccini - Muriel 

[BachQ]

nobody has posted those GMG members most closely associated with Puccini  ?? 

how about Respighi or Bartok?

[71 dB]

I think 71dB rather likes him

Yes, I like Puccini! The best romantic opera composer imo.

[BachQ]

Puccini --> 71 dB

[Lady Chatterley]

Puccini - Muriel 

I'll put on my Kimono and burst into song.What a Beautiful Day.

[johnQpublic]

I'll take Bartok, if nobody else wants him.

[BachQ]

Bartok --> johnQpublic

[karlhenning]

No, no, the chap I associate Bartók with doesn't take part here.

[Tsaraslondon]

Yes, I like Puccini! The best romantic opera composer imo.

Though Puccini was not a Romantic. He was the outstanding figure among the movement of Italian composers, called verismo - quite the reverse of Romanticism. It is a much earlier movement in the arts, and dates from the late eighteenth century to about the middle of the nineteenth. The true Romantics in Italy were Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and early Verdi, finding for their inspiration the works of Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Sir Walter Scott and Schiller.

[karlhenning]

I'll put on my Kimono and burst into song.What a Beautiful Day.

Encore: Mi chiamano Muriel!

[Tsaraslondon]

  I can't believe no one has mentioned this very fine composer:

VERDI -> Tsaraslondon (our Maria Callas expert), Bruce, Mike, Haffner, Lis, Larry (our Falstaff expert), Lethe and Michel (may I include you in as well?) and of course marvinbrown (moi  ). As you can see Verdi has quite following here.......


  marvin

Incidentally, you are right about Verdi being one of my favourite composers. Others at the very top of my list would be Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Bellini and Mozart.

[Mark]

May I (modestly) claim Respighi? As with Saint-Saens, I've yet to hear a work by old Ottorino which didn't please me.

[BachQ]

May I (modestly) claim Respighi? As with Saint-Saens, I've yet to hear a work by old Ottorino which didn't please me.

Have you heard his piano concerti?

Pure crap.

[BachQ]

Bellini --> Tsaraslondon

[Mark]

Have you heard his piano concerti?

Pure crap.

I have, and I strongly disagree. I love it to distraction - ditto, his Toccata for Piano & Orchestra.

[karlhenning]

Respighi - idowords Mark