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Title: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: amw on February 06, 2016, 07:02:14 PM
Please don't list any composers whose names you are aware of—that counts as "hearing of" them. The object is really more to post random combinations of letters in the blind hope that one of them is actually a composer.
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: Brian on February 06, 2016, 08:56:02 PM
Well here are five:

Mikolaj Kopasztiewicz
Erhard von Reinstiegel
Johannes Schuhardt
Toivu Kaapala
Galina Sveshnikova
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: springrite on February 06, 2016, 09:02:46 PM
Tomas Sztvrtlic
Ruud vander Hoof
Mao Hu Xi
Vladi Dargomyzhkoff
Carl Henningsberger
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: Turner on February 06, 2016, 11:03:17 PM
Ludovico Pizza-Pasta
Gerard Gentilhomme-sous-Bois
Arthur Synninge Maiden-Bowlingfield
Krszysztian Plebsztrikowskiwycz
Li Ho Li Ha
Fidelio Finke

(there´s a twist here!)


Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: The new erato on February 07, 2016, 12:16:43 AM
Quote from: Turner on February 06, 2016, 11:03:17 PM
Ludovico Pizza-Pasta
Gerard Gentilhomne-sous-Bois
Arthur Synninge Maiden-Bowlingfield
Krszysztian Plebsztrikowskiwycz
Li Ho Li Ha
Fidelio Finke

(there´s a twist here!)
Yes, the last one.
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: Turner on February 07, 2016, 12:54:51 AM
Indeed - what a name for a real composer ...
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: ritter on February 07, 2016, 09:20:31 AM
Burkhardt Reichenfäller
Antonino Piccolini
Félicien-Frédéric Ducretêt
Juan Antonio Bernardino de todos los Santos Jiménez-López y Gómez de las Galicias-Bermúdez
Anatol Nikolayevich Zhigunov-Zadorozhny
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: Mirror Image on February 07, 2016, 10:57:22 AM
10 I've never heard of...

Artie Muskowicz (German Jew who fled to America --- disciple of Schoenberg)
Alexa Frost (British composer --- studied with Vaughan Williams)
Thomas Redgrave (British composer --- studied under Stanford and Parry)
Boen "Bo" Salvador Bembo (Mexican composer who studied under Chavez)
Turner Gouch (American composer who remained experimental throughout his career in the vein of Ives mixed with Carter)
Raphael Xochimilco (Mexican composer who studied briefly with Horatio Parker in the US but became obsessed with new developments in music)
Owen Mark Hamill (American-born French composer studied under Messiaen)
Luc van Cort (Belgian composer --- studied mathematics but turned to composing late in life - Xenakis, Ligeti, and Scelsi were huge influences)
Peppy Domingues (Spanish composer who forged a unique synthesis of Stravinsky and Flamenco)
Laura Verioux (French-Canadian composer who studied briefly with Vivier and later on Grisey)
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: North Star on February 07, 2016, 11:26:19 AM
Jan Leutšik
Atonale France
Heinrich Müller
Charles Herring
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: prémont on February 07, 2016, 12:04:06 PM
Friedrich Bahnhofer

Karl-Amadeus von Unterwald

Johannes Nierenstein

Peter Riesenbacke

I am unable to provide further information about these composers, as I never have heard of them.
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: North Star on February 07, 2016, 12:14:07 PM
Quote from: (: premont :) on February 07, 2016, 12:04:06 PM
Karl-Amadeus von Unterwald
Ah yes, isn't he the chap who wrote lots of music inspired by the legend of Orpheus?
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: Brian on February 07, 2016, 01:39:39 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 07, 2016, 10:57:22 AM
Owen Mark Hamill (American-born French composer studied under Messiaen)

I believe you meant

Owen Mark Hamill (American-born Tatooine composer studied under Kenobi)
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: Florestan on February 08, 2016, 03:28:11 AM
Johann Friedrich Schneider
Annibale Salviati
Charles-Marie de Laffrey
Igor Uvarovich Karatayev
sir Archibald Frederick Alderton

Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: mc ukrneal on February 08, 2016, 05:20:15 AM
What I don't get is - if you haven't heard of them, how can you include their names in a list of composers you've never heard of? You must have heard of them to write down their names, yes? Or is it a jedi mind trick or something?!? :)
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: Florestan on February 08, 2016, 05:22:25 AM
Quote from: mc ukrneal on February 08, 2016, 05:20:15 AM
What I don't get is - if you haven't heard of them, how can you include their names in a list of composers you've never heard of?

Actually, one cannot make such a list at all.  :D
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: (poco) Sforzando on February 09, 2016, 10:26:18 AM
Quote from: mc ukrneal on February 08, 2016, 05:20:15 AM
What I don't get is - if you haven't heard of them, how can you include their names in a list of composers you've never heard of? You must have heard of them to write down their names, yes? Or is it a jedi mind trick or something?!? :)

Even more to the point, how can they be the "top" ten, and wouldn't that be assigning tiers?
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: springrite on February 09, 2016, 11:12:39 PM
A real Chinese composer whose name will surely be first on any alphabetical list:

A Ben (A, pronounced "Ah", is the family name)
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: prémont on February 10, 2016, 01:08:21 PM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on February 09, 2016, 10:26:18 AM
Even more to the point, how can they be the "top" ten, and wouldn't that be assigning tiers?

They may have written great works, you haven't heard of.
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: vandermolen on February 21, 2016, 02:36:11 PM
Herbert Bunting
Nikolai Messerschmittsky (captured German soldier in World War Two who ended up joining the Red Army)
Alexander Pickel
Peter van Winkel
Roger Scunthorpe
Louise Token
Title: Re: Top 10 composers you've never heard of
Post by: vandermolen on February 21, 2016, 02:36:58 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 07, 2016, 10:57:22 AM
10 I've never heard of...

Artie Muskowicz (German Jew who fled to America --- disciple of Schoenberg)
Alexa Frost (British composer --- studied with Vaughan Williams)
Thomas Redgrave (British composer --- studied under Stanford and Parry)
Boen "Bo" Salvador Bembo (Mexican composer who studied under Chavez)
Turner Gouch (American composer who remained experimental throughout his career in the vein of Ives mixed with Carter)
Raphael Xochimilco (Mexican composer who studied briefly with Horatio Parker in the US but became obsessed with new developments in music)
Owen Mark Hamill (American-born French composer studied under Messiaen)
Luc van Cort (Belgian composer --- studied mathematics but turned to composing late in life - Xenakis, Ligeti, and Scelsi were huge influences)
Peppy Domingues (Spanish composer who forged a unique synthesis of Stravinsky and Flamenco)
Laura Verioux (French-Canadian composer who studied briefly with Vivier and later on Grisey)
As so often we share very similar tastes.  8)