When I registered on GMG I was asked to choose a username, and back then (2007, maybe even earlier) I was a Schumann buff, impetuous and impulsive and reckless. Hence my username, which had nothing at all to do with Beethoven. Fast forward almost 20 years, I am not a Schumann buff anymore but I am still impetuous and impulsive and reckless sometimes, so I don't feel the need to change my username.
How about you, folks?
Quote from: premont on April 13, 2024, 10:50:44 AMMy username is a Frenchization of a Latinization of my real name. Complicated? Not at all.
I am astonished that
Danish has a
native word for
mountain... ;D >:D :P
My username is a Frenchization of a Latinization of my real name. Complicated? Not at all. Correctly it should be
prémont. I think I shall change the username to this.
Quote from: Florestan on April 13, 2024, 10:54:31 AMI am astonished that Danish has a native word for mountain... ;D >:D :P
Very funny, but we need to have a word for mountains abroad. :D
My initials.
Short form of/nickname from my real first name plus the Koechel number of the Clarinet trio. Seemed a good mix between some connection to real name and music while keeping anonymity for search engines and the like.
Quote from: prémont on April 13, 2024, 11:00:43 AMVery funny, but we need to have a word for mountains abroad. :D
Yes of course. 8)
Seriously now, one of my favorite novels is
Henrik Pontoppidan's
Lucky Per. I read it in a Romanian translation and was spellbound, then I watched the movie and loved it. Not to mention
HCA....
Jubel! (blame it on Google Translate...)
"Cato" came to mind mainly because of the two Roman Cato's.
Cato the Elder warned constantly of the rise of Carthage (supposedly he ended his every Senate speech with Delenda est Carthago! = Carthage must be destroyed), while great-grandson Cato the Younger was an opponent of the tyrant Julius Caesar.
However, there was a third Cato: Bruce Lee played The Green Hornet's aide and chauffeur in the T.V. show of the same name.
And, yes, there is a FOURTH Cato! :o
(https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/36/590x/673319_1.jpg)
Burt Kwouk played Cato, the butler and martial-arts sparring partner of Inspector Clouseau ( Peter Sellers) in the Pink Panther movies, in which Clouseau had hired Cato to attack him at random and in inventive ways, so that the detective could practice defending against a potential assassination!
So, I think on the day that I joined GMG, I had been talking about Cato the Younger's suicide of protest against Julius Caesar to my students.
With all those dramatic and comedic associations, Cato seemed a fine choice!
At one time my "avatar" was a Roman portrait bust of Cato the Elder, and later of Cato the Younger.
My name is David. There are many Davids so I added the initial for my last name. I think when I started I might have gone by mahlerfan... I don't recall now. I go by haydnfan on TC, but I haven't posted there in might be a decade or so.
Quote from: Jo498 on April 13, 2024, 11:23:29 AMShort form of/nickname from my real first name plus the Koechel number of the Clarinet trio.
Johann &
Kegelstatt Trio, blimey --- I guessed your first name alright long time ago, yet never the second part until now.... ;D
Quote from: DavidW on April 13, 2024, 11:50:28 AMMy name is David.
Blimey, I'd have never guessed... ;D
I have been using VonStupp, a poorly spelled homage to Lili Von Shtüpp (who always offered me plenty of schnitzengruben), since the 90's on GeoCities.
For some unknown reason, a fur-laden Offenbach has always accompanied VonStupp as my avatar. I have a stable of five or so online monikers used throughout the decades, but VonStupp is my oldest and most used.
VS
Quote from: VonStupp on April 13, 2024, 11:58:04 AMI have been using VonStupp, a poorly spelled homage to Lili Von Shtüpp (who always offered me plenty of schnitzengruben), since the 90's on GeoCities.
For some unknown reason, a fur-laden Offenbach has always accompanied VonStupp as my avatar. I have a stable of five or so online monikers used throughout the decades, but VonStupp is my oldest and most used.
VS
I love
Offenbach.
Quote from: VonStupp on April 13, 2024, 11:58:04 AMI have been using VonStupp, a poorly spelled homage to Lili Von Shtüpp (who always offered me plenty of schnitzengruben), since the 90's on GeoCities.
I'm glad that my assumption of where your name came from was correct because I definitely think of her song every time!
Quote from: Florestan on April 13, 2024, 12:10:42 PMThaddeus Dietriechstein. ;D
I like to go anonymous on music boards. Often my fake names are completely irrelevant or involve "Geek" in some way, but this being a dignified setting I went with real initials. ;D
Being a jazz listener, my preferred TD musician is Tadd Dameron.
Quote from: Brian on April 13, 2024, 12:12:22 PMI'm glad that my assumption of where your name came from was correct because I definitely think of her song every time!
Just the other day I was listening to my car radio the Romanian Classical Music station --- they were playing the Offenbach Can-Can --- when it was all over, the speaker said, I quote exactly, "That was the
Offenbach Can-Can from
La Vie Parisienne" --- which is bollocks, the Can-Can is actually from
Orphée aux enfers --- the RCMS speakers are quite possibly the greatest ignoramuses in the world. ;D
Quote from: VonStupp on April 13, 2024, 11:58:04 AMI have been using VonStupp, a poorly spelled homage to Lili Von Shtüpp (who always offered me plenty of schnitzengruben), since the 90's on GeoCities.
For some unknown reason, a fur-laden Offenbach has always accompanied VonStupp as my avatar. I have a stable of five or so online monikers used throughout the decades, but VonStupp is my oldest and most used.
VS
To be very clear... ;D
Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp (or Schtupp, or Schtüpp) from
Blazing Saddles...
For my username, I wanted to pay homage to two of my absolute favourite composers, Wagner and Liszt, merging them.
Quote from: Florestan on April 13, 2024, 11:53:43 AMJohann & Kegelstatt Trio, blimey --- I guessed your first name alright long time ago, yet never the second part until now.... ;D
It could have been Josef or Joachim, but you are almost correct; it's the same as Brahms' first name. I used my full name on a German forum a long time ago when I was still naive and in the Usenet days, full names and email adress were common.
I had occasionally also used a different combination of letters with that number identity but different names in other forums. I don't recall why I picked that one for the forum here, it's pleasantly short but that doesn't matter as I stay logged in forever and don't have to type it.
I've used mine elsewhere so it seemed obvious when asked. It is a combination of the names by which my wife and I are often known.
I'm going to assume that I don't need to explain that Luke is my name. I used my surname too, when I first joined, which was right at the beginning. Then for a while I used 'sul G' which was based on my tendency for many of my compositions to be vaguely in that tonal area.
As Karl will tell you, I am often a nightmare to get hold of on the phone or otherwise. My brother, failing to get in touch in any way, once joined GMG as a last resort, and posted on my thread a few times! ;D I quite like the name he chose: jo re mi - his name is Jeremy
20 years ago I registered on a Finnish home theatre forum. I needed to come up with a username. I decided to go with 71 dB for the following reasons:
- I wanted a short and witty username
- I was born in 1971
- dB is a reflection of my acoustic engineering background
- 71 dB is somewhat typical sound pressure level of human communication.
When I registered on GMG a few years later, I simply used the same username.
Quote from: Brian on April 13, 2024, 12:12:22 PMI'm glad that my assumption of where your name came from was correct because I definitely think of her song every time!
She's just so tired... :D
VS
Oli stands for David Johann Olivier :P
Papy was a nickname given to me by my close mates at university. It stuck and I used variations thereof on various forums since.
My username is from Charles Bukowski poem Question And Answer. I use it for couple of decades.
I don't see any problems using my real name on a classical music forum.
It's my real name.
Quote from: steve ridgway on April 13, 2024, 10:54:24 PMI don't see any problems using my real name on a classical music forum.
May depend on how rare one's name is.
Dutch family name and (in England) sounds more aristocratic than my real name ;D
From a piano piece I like:
Atardecer for Piano (4 hands) by Joaquin Rodrigo
Quote from: Florestan on April 13, 2024, 10:54:31 AMI am astonished that Danish has a native word for mountain... ;D >:D :P
What I find most curious is how you seem to have quoted a premont post that didn't exist at the time you quoted it, but in the future.
Quote from: atardecer on April 14, 2024, 04:01:36 AMWhat I find most curious is how you seem to have quoted a premont post that didn't exist at the time you quoted it, but in the future.
Never heard of Florestan's prophetic abilities?
:o 8) :laugh: ;)
staxomega - the original SN I registered with on GMG around 2009 or 2010 (my SN on TalkClassical) was after my favorite headphones at the time, and this is what my old GMG posts will appear as. Later changed it to hvbias, the voltage needed to bias an amplification device after I started reading about how circuits work, the history and invention of vacuum tubes, transistors, etc. Around the same time I started reading about the history of medicine, but any username I could think of wasn't that great or bordering on grotesque. Current one only my partner knows about, so get to know me better than her and you'll find out :laugh: I suppose I could have done a username matching my Wagner avatar but I didn't want to confine myself to a single composer.
Quote from: Atriod on April 14, 2024, 04:23:39 AMCurrent one [atriod] only my partner knows about, so get to know me better than her and you'll find out :laugh:
Anagram for adroit?
Quote from: prémont on April 14, 2024, 04:31:51 AMAnagram for adroit?
It's not, that would have been a really good one if I chose to become a surgeon.
A long time ago (decades) I used Scarpia, or Baron Scarpia, in a vague attempt to be edgy. Occasionally I would decide to discontinue participation (due to various reasons, including the fact that I felt it was taking up too much time) and would eventually re-register, intending just to use to account to lurk occasionally, but when I started participating again it would be under the new username. At one point I randomly chose Parsifal, and later references to Faulkner novels (Ratliff, Varner, Spotted Horses). So no deep meaning.
Quote from: Atriod on April 14, 2024, 04:23:39 AMCurrent one only my partner knows about, so get to know me better than her and you'll find out :laugh: I
A triode?
Quote from: W.A. Mozart on April 14, 2024, 12:42:05 AMIt's my real name.
You must have a split personality, then, because in another forum your real name is Hans Zimmer. ;D
Quote from: Florestan on April 14, 2024, 08:23:26 AMA triode?
I also considered this, but there is an "e" too much,
Quote from: prémont on April 13, 2024, 10:55:10 AMMy username is a Frenchization of a Latinization of my real name.
Førbjerg? :D
Quote from: prémont on April 14, 2024, 09:37:46 AMI also considered this, but there is an "e" too much,
Maybe he wouldn't want to give it away. ;) :D
The first username I ever used online (in a Spanish language opera forum) was Parsifal. That forum had to migrate to another platform or something, and we all had to re-register. By then, I thought a less grandiloquent name made more sense, so I settled for ritter (there's plenty of Ritter —knights— in Wagner and in opera in general). I've used that name ever since in any forums I participate (which aren't many, TBH).
I use lowercase just to avoid having to hit the shift key every time I write it... ;)
Quote from: Atriod on April 14, 2024, 04:23:39 AMCurrent one only my partner knows about, so get to know me better than her and you'll find out :laugh:
Whenever I read your username, I think of
Atreus, king of Mycenae, and of the Atreidae.
Quote from: Florestan on April 14, 2024, 09:39:38 AMFørbjerg? :D
If it was that it should be Forbjerg. However I don't want my real name mentioned in the forum, since it's relatively rare.
Quote from: prémont on April 14, 2024, 09:51:38 AMI don't want my real name mentioned in the forum, since it's relatively rare.
Oh, it was just a jesting guess. :)
Quote from: Florestan on April 14, 2024, 09:35:49 AMYou must have a split personality, then, because in another forum your real name is Hans Zimmer. ;D
Maybe it was Hans Zimmer who composed the works ascribed to WA Mozart. Something for Robert Newmann to think about.
I had no idea what to call myself when signing up, and the first thing that came to mind as something I liked was 'Io', one of Jupiter's moons that I've always found rather striking. From that came Iota, which as the Greek letter representing the sound 'i' seemed to fit, as it was 'I' would be doing the posting, and finally I liked the feeling of insignificance it implied.
So to answer the question, it was the best I could come up with at the time. ::)
Copilot says:
As of today, there are no living individuals with the name Mozart. The Mozart family, which includes the renowned composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, has left a lasting legacy in the world of music and art. However, the direct lineage of the Mozart family has not continued to the present day
I've been through several usernames. I started here way long ago as Walter Bruno, which struck me as an appropriately musical made-up name. I then went through a series of short-lived names (Otto Skadelig, Contents under Pressure, and Spitvalve) before settling on Velimir for a few years. This was chosen in honor of the Russian avant-garde poet Velimir Khlebnikov, the only person with that name I can think of. Eventually I switched from Slavic poetry to Germanic with Archaic Torso of Apollo (a poem by Rilke). There's no real rhyme or reason to this; I just like poetic or musical references.
Mine came about indirectly from a friend of mine. As I always seemed to have an opinion and wasn't afraid to share what I thought ad nauseum she said to me - "You're always 'holding forth' about something or other. A couple of spelling changes and 'voila, it became Holden4th. I've shortened it to Holden for this forum.
Wise, I'm not sure Holden (https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Holden%2C_Oliver) wrote a 4th anything...
For a long while I went by my real name, but on another music forum I christened myself "Alban Berg." I figured that if I were to become a composer, I might as well become the best. Not sure where "Sforzando" came from. I think it was because I had gotten a reputation for being curmudgeonly and nasty, a reputation I have since cheerfully passed on to others on the forum. And I liked the phrase in my signature, which was written by our dear friend and now moderator Brian Reinhart. The "poco" part was suggested by someone who thought "sforzando" by itself was too brusque. But as any musician knows, a note is either played sforzando or it's not, so the poco part of it is thoroughly oxymoronic. Perhaps to celebrate my newfound sweetness I should rename myself to "lusingando," which I also don't know what it means but it must mean something.
Quote from: Florestan on April 14, 2024, 09:41:06 AMMaybe he wouldn't want to give it away. ;) :D
You've got one half of it. The other half's hint is that aside from a Beethoven symphony it was one of my earliest classical music memories. I really won't say anymore as this hint narrows it down a bit too much ;)
Quote from: Iota on April 14, 2024, 10:25:15 AMI had no idea what to call myself when signing up, and the first thing that came to mind as something I liked was 'Io', one of Jupiter's moons that I've always found rather striking. From that came Iota, which as the Greek letter representing the sound 'i' seemed to fit, as it was 'I' would be doing the posting, and finally I liked the feeling of insignificance it implied.
So to answer the question, it was the best I could come up with at the time. ::)
I like this answer. If I was independently wealthy I would have went into astrophysics. When I first starting ripping my collection in 2004 I started naming the folders that EAC points to after Jupiter's moons. I think that is roughly a dozen different moon names from the various PCs over the years.
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Quote from: Atriod on April 18, 2024, 01:11:31 PMYou've got one half of it. The other half's hint is that aside from a Beethoven symphony it was one of my earliest classical music memories. I really won't say anymore as this hint narrows it down a bit too much ;)
Hah! It's been under our eyes all the time:
A trio in
d. :D
If
d proper, then my guess is
Mendelssohn; if
D, then
Beethoven's
Ghost.
Of course, you don't have to disclose it if you really don't want to.
Now, given the ingenuity of some of the above names, I really wish I'd been more inventive with mine. Mine is, however, the same as on cpdl.org, where my Byrd editions are hosted. Elsewhere I've been "Byrdnuts" and "Foggydew" - the latter, if you know the folksong, because for some years I was a bachelor (well, a widower) and lived with my son.