Name that piece! The game

[DavidW]

I assumed that any archiving program (WinZip, for example) would be able to do that. I'm really sorry if none of you were prompted for a password or all were shown an error message. Now that I'm back, you can begin guessing in the usual way.

David, if you have access to Ubuntu via VM, you can try opening in that, because I used the default archiving utility that comes with the OS.

My Ubuntu VM is on my laptop, I'm currently on a desktop... it's alright though 7-zip works.  Well it works well in telling me that I'm wrong!

[Opus106]

Nav, I couldn't download your clip (probably not your look-out ; )

Any error messages popping up, Karl? (MF tells me that the file has been downloaded 16 times so far.)

[Opus106]

My Ubuntu VM is on my laptop, I'm currently on a desktop... it's alright though 7-zip works.  Well it works well in telling me that I'm wrong!

Reading that made me happy -- twice!

[karlhenning]

Any error messages popping up, Karl?

No, it's a workplace nanny.

[Opus106]

No, it's a workplace nanny.

Ah. If the nanny likes 4shared, I'll upload it there.

[karlhenning]

'Twould be lovely, thanks!

[Opus106]

All right, here it is.

http://www.4shared.com/embed/636460126/84e6f175

[karlhenning]

Hmm, fugue, string quartet. Mendelssohn?

[Opus106]

Hmm, fugue, string quartet. Mendelssohn?

Indeed, the first parts are quite obvious. But the man who penned it was born later... much later.

[Parsifal]

Indeed, the first parts are quite obvious. But the man who penned it was born later... much later.

Yes I thought 20th C, in fact I thought of Samuel Barber.

[Opus106]

Yes I thought 20th C, in fact I thought of Samuel Barber.

This snip has the mood to match the famous movement of Op. 11, but composed by Barber it was not.

[karlhenning]

Indeed, the first parts are quite obvious. But the man who penned it was born later... much later.

Well, I appreciate your efforts so that I might play! : )

[DavidW]

Yes I thought 20th C, in fact I thought of Samuel Barber.

That is immediately what I thought, and it didn't work!

[karlhenning]

Not knowing the piece, I was borderline . . . genuinely old, or backward-looking 20^th-c.? (Not that there's anything worng with that.)  Feeling that it was a toss-up, I went for the less laborious possibility first ; )

[DavidW]

I didn't even know that Navneeth listened to composers other than Bach!

[Opus106]

I didn't even know that Navneeth listened to composers other than Bach!

Actually, I don't. I just googled for "classical musical clip that will stump others in a guessing game on an internet forum" and this was among the results.

[Parsifal]

Actually, I don't. I just googled for "classical musical clip that will stump others in a guessing game on an internet forum" and this was among the results.

To me, that suggests it might be atypical of its composer. Perhaps a composer not known for polyphonic writing

[Opus106]

To me, that suggests it might be atypical of its composer. Perhaps a composer not known for polyphonic writing

Oh, I surely hope you didn't take that bit about the googling seriously. But your suspicion is perhaps right. I'm not familiar with the composer's output as such, I just happened to have some of his works on the hard-drive. The movement from which this clip was taken is in a way atypical of the rest of the work.

[Parsifal]

Oh, I surely hope you didn't take that bit about the googling seriously.

I did, since I don't know any of you yet, and must take what you write at face value. Certainly not a problem.

It's not by Richard Strauss, by any chance?

[Opus106]

It's not by Richard Strauss, by any chance?

Not Strauss. None of them, related or not.

Here's another clue: this composer was born after the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated.