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 Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:29 am
Okay -- I'm going to test your knowledge of composers! I'll start and give a few clues. If you can figure out who it is from those and confirm it, we'll move on to a new composer, and you or I will post the clues.
Here we go... Mystery composer #1:
-He was a transitional composer, and regarded as one of the greatest violin virtuosi of all time.
-Many famous composers have written variations on one of his very famous caprices.
-He died of larnyx cancer in Nice in 1840
Good luck
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:58 am
Paganini!
I love the Variations on a Theme, so that was an easy one.. (at least, I hope so. If not, I'll look awfully stupid smile )
..may I clue the next one, cet42, or are you going to do another?
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:01 am
Nice -- I've heard both Brahms and Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme by Paganini -- I love the theme! Go ahead and do the next one, Katealaurel, I want to guess!
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:13 pm
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the isle of the dead Crew
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:18 pm
I suppose so. I'm tempted to do one too, but coming up with hints that won't be guessed in the one following post will be difficult.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:23 pm
ok, here's mine:
- This composer was born in April 1899
- His name is associated with the finest creations in big band and vocal jazz
- He began keyboard studies at the age of seven. His earliest influences were the ragtime pianists. He taught himself harmony at the piano and at 17, made his professional debut.
- He was the first jazz musician member of the Royal Music Academy in Stockholm, and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is this famous musician?
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:05 pm
Let's see --
Irving Berlin and Aaron Copland both won the Presidential Medal of honor, but they don't seem to fit the profile.
It must be after Scott Joplin, if his influences were the ragtime musicians.
Other than that, I really don't have too much of an idea.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:00 pm
OMG! Is it Duke Ellington?? I was just randomly reading my 7 year old sister's book "The Story fo the Incrdible Orchestra," and when it got to "Jazzy Jazz," It said that the Duke was born in 1899. I know that his name is associated with big band and vocal jazz, and it doesn't surprise me if he got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. What threw me off was the piano part, because I was confusing him with Louis Armstrong. Otherwise, I should have realized him a lot quicker.
I hope I'm right or I'll sound dumb.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:50 pm
cet42 OMG! Is it Duke Ellington?? I was just randomly reading my 7 year old sister's book "The Story fo the Incrdible Orchestra," and when it got to "Jazzy Jazz," It said that the Duke was born in 1899. I know that his name is associated with big band and vocal jazz, and it doesn't surprise me if he got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. What threw me off was the piano part, because I was confusing him with Louis Armstrong. Otherwise, I should have realized him a lot quicker. I hope I'm right or I'll sound dumb. yeah! you're right. Luis Armstrong played the trumpet. he had his trumpet set at a 45 degree ancle so he could hear it better when he played. Ellingdon just played piano.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:41 pm
I'll do mine now, even though it'll probably be too easy.
This composer was a Romantic composer
He had issues with depression, and he was also superstitious and believed in "the curse of the 9th".
Good luck...as if anyone'll need it. xp
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:14 am
Harvested Sorrow I'll do mine now, even though it'll probably be too easy. This composer was a Romantic composer He had issues with depression, and he was also superstitious and believed in "the curse of the 9th". Good luck...as if anyone'll need it. xp Schumann? Watch as I'm wrong and everyone points and laughs.
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:00 am
Harvested Sorrow I'll do mine now, even though it'll probably be too easy. This composer was a Romantic composer He had issues with depression, and he was also superstitious and believed in "the curse of the 9th". Good luck...as if anyone'll need it. xp Mahler. But he also said "every one of my symphonies is a Ninth".
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:31 am
Correct, Mahler. Somehow I'm not suprised that you got it. (Perhaps it was your sig...)
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:42 am
Rehm yeah! you're right. Luis Armstrong played the trumpet. he had his trumpet set at a 45 degree ancle so he could hear it better when he played. Ellingdon just played piano. It's a suprise trumpet companies don't actually make quater-pi angle trumpets. Actually, it wouldn't suprise me if some did.
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the isle of the dead Crew
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:50 am
the isle of the dead Rehm yeah! you're right. Luis Armstrong played the trumpet. he had his trumpet set at a 45 degree ancle so he could hear it better when he played. Ellingdon just played piano. It's a suprise trumpet companies don't actually make quater-pi angle trumpets. Actually, it wouldn't suprise me if some did. But that's a really sucky trumpet, mind you. Only really bad trumpet manufacturers try to replicate Dizzy Gillespie's accident.
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