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Christo

Quote from: Irons on February 20, 2019, 11:37:45 PM
It looks like I have led Florestan on a wild goose chase.  :(
It does. Danse macabre was the more correct answer.   :-X
... 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

Florestan

Quote from: Irons on February 20, 2019, 11:37:45 PM
It looks like I have led Florestan on a wild goose chase.  :(

Not exactly, because after posting "otomh I have no idea" I went to sleep.  :D

But the hint was indeed misleading. You might as well have chosen En saga and given Galsworthy as hint.  ;D

"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on February 20, 2019, 12:01:50 PM
(one of those books probably more talked about than actually read)

The usual suspects are the Bible, The Wealth of Nations and Das Kapital.


"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

ritter

None of the three, but it was written in the same language as one of those you mention (language that was not the mother tongue of the composer in question)...

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on February 21, 2019, 12:51:59 AM
None of the three, but it was written in the same language as one of those you mention (language that was not the mother tongue of the composer in question)...

Englsih or German, then.

Now, either the composer was gay, or a woman, or the philosopher was a woman. Am I right?  :laugh:
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

ritter

#385
German (the language of the book) ... gay (the composer) ... man (the philosopher)

Florestan

Jean  Barraqué, Michel Foucault, Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil.
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

ritter

Quote from: Florestan on February 21, 2019, 05:54:47 AM
Jean  Barraqué, Michel Foucault, Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil.
Told you It was easy...didn't know you were so well versed in avant-garde composers, modern Austro-German novels, and post-structuralist  philosophy...  ;)

À vous, cher ami  :)

Florestan

Quote from: ritter on February 21, 2019, 06:00:42 AM
Told you It was easy...didn't know you were so well versed in avant-garde composers, modern Austro-German novels, and post-structuralist  philosophy...  ;)

I am not, actually; all I needed was a list of gay composers and the hunch that your man must be French.  :)

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À vous, cher ami  :)

Okay, easy one too: this composer was so succesful and popular in a particular genre that his name become a moniker for it. Yet of all his numerous pupils, some of whom would later become more famous than him, only one of them composed a relatively famous work in that genre. Name the composer, the genre, the pupil and the work.
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Biffo

Quote from: Florestan on February 21, 2019, 05:54:47 AM
Jean  Barraqué, Michel Foucault, Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil.

I have read about one-third of The Death of Virgil and a biography of Michel Foucault, both years ago; don't recall Jean Barraque though possibly he gets a mention in the biography. All too long ago to stand an earthly chance.

Florestan

BUMP!

Quote from: Florestan on February 21, 2019, 06:10:43 AM
this composer was so succesful and popular in a particular genre that his name become a moniker for it. Yet of all his numerous pupils, some of whom would later become more famous than him, only one of them composed a relatively famous work in that genre. Name the composer, the genre, the pupil and the work.
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Irons

Quote from: Florestan on February 21, 2019, 11:50:25 PM
BUMP!

I did think Strauss waltz but "numerous pupils" ruled it out.
You must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony - John Ireland.

I opened the door people rushed through and I was left holding the knob - Bo Diddley.

Florestan

Quote from: San Antone on February 23, 2019, 12:04:30 AM
Antonio Salieri, opera, Beethoven, Fidelio

No. Does not fit in "his name become a moniker for the genre". Incidentally, though, you got the place of the action right.
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Biffo

Corelli, violin sonata?

Missed the hint about Vienna so probably wrong.

Florestan

Quote from: San Antone on February 23, 2019, 01:51:17 AM
I figured my guess was wrong

No, it was actually a good call.

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but wanted to get the ball rolling and maybe spark something in someone else's mind.  So, Vienna - care to offer a hint e.g. time span?

When he was born, Franz Joseph had not yet acceded to the throne. When he died, the Empire had been abolished for almost 10 years.
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Florestan

Quote from: San Antone on February 23, 2019, 02:18:53 AM
So, the composer was born before December 1848, and died around 1928.

Exactly.
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Biffo

How about Robert Fuchs (1847 - 1927)  aka  "Serenaden-Fuchs"

Edit: San Antone beat me to it.

Florestan

Quote from: San Antone on February 23, 2019, 02:31:19 AM
And Zemlinsky wrote Serenade (Suite) for violin and piano (1895), so

Fuchs, Serenade, Zemlinsky, Serenade for violin/piano.

Yes, Robert Fuchs, but as for the pupil, I thought about Hugo Wolf and his Italian Serenade for string quartet, which I think is more famous (in a relative way, that is) than the Zemlinsky's, which I confess to never hearing about.  :D

Anyway, you got Fuchs right, so it's your turn.

Also, congrats to Biffo for coming up with the right answer.

"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Florestan

Quote from: San Antone on February 23, 2019, 02:40:50 AM
Okay, this was rattling around my head yesterday - so I'll go with.

This composer wrote a ballet, which was subsequently made into a musical, which was also later made into a film. Who is the composer and what are the works?

I supppose it's not Tchaikovsky.  :D
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

ritter

Leonard Bernstein's Fancy Free, which served as a basis for the musical On the Town and the subsequent film of the same title?