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Alkan's "The Railway." If boats are included, both Beethoven and Mendelssohn wrote pieces based on Goethe's poem "Meeresstille und glueckliche Fahrt." Some examples of nonmechanized transportation also come to mind: For instance, Grofe's Death Valley Suite evokes the image of a wagon train, and Muss...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgos_Merlot

jbuck919 wrote:

smitty1931 wrote:Just recently Science has discovered that a glass of red wine a day will lengthen your life as much as 5 years! Merlot anyone?

What did he compose?

How about Christian Petzold's minuet from the Anna Magdalena Bach notebook? It is probably in the running for the most frequently performed "Bach" piece.

Georg Händel = George Trade

Trade is Handel, without the dots on the a. Händel actually means dispute.

There are actually a few places where 'classical music' wins and one is NYC.
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The hotbed for rock music is: Arkansas.

This must be why ....

NYC has a Bruckner Expressway and Arkansas has a town named Little Rock.

Name the composer who would most likely say, "What's that?" No, I'm not sleeping, I'm composing."

Brahms frequently dozed off as a result of sleep apnea; perhaps it is a reference to that.

What composer said that when he was composing he thought he was as great as Beethoven, but when he was done he was only about as good as Bizet?

Alban Berg

A hint: He came before Brahms and as the original riddle stated, he is the greatest Johannes. Think religious...

Yes, of course. But he was neither the first composer nor the first Baroque composer nor even the first Bach named Johann. Most of the Bachs seem to be Johann something.

I imagine the second-to-last is Johannes Ockghem, the Renaissance composer.

Actually, John Dunstaple is just a tiny bit earlier.

Name the composer who would most likely say, "What's that?" No, I'm not sleeping, I'm composing."

I am thinking of the Russian composer whose first symphony was based on dreams during the cold season.

According to the Wikipedia article on Casadesus, the "Adelaide Concerto"
was actually written by Henri's brother Marius.

The value of 182 cents corresponds to a ratio of 10/9, not 9/8. Of course, if C is a frequency of 1, D is 9/8, and E is 5/4 (the "ideal" value for a major third), then the ratio between E and D is 10/9. Maybe this is what was intended.

but Bach, whose idea of travel was the difference between Thuringia and Saxony, managed without ever going to those places to absorb everything music in Europe had to offer at his time.

Bach once walked to Luebeck (a distance of 250 miles!) to listen to Buxtehude.

The Wagner Centennial Overture

Premature. Save it for 2030.

This article offers three possibilities for the prototype of the "little phrase":

http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/fron ... 00855.html

One of them is by Faure.

He is supposed to be based partly on Faure.

Fake.

The world still has 16 years to forget him.

But it might take a little longer in Halberstadt.

Or is Boethius full-of-it?

The story definitely predates Boethius. Various sources on the web attribute it to Lamblichus, and even Cicero.

Herr Diabelli invited quite a few composers to come forth to write variations on his simple tune, including Franz Schubert. I believe some of them came up with just one variation, Diabelli's original plan was to publish one variation each from prominent composers. He intended this as a promotion fo...

"The Railway" by Alkan.

This web site of the Baltimore Opera lists eight "famous" ones; there must be many which are less well known:
http://www.baltimoreopera.com/studyguide/figaro_07.asp

Joachim Raff (1822-1882), Germany, Symphony No. 8 "Fruehlingsklaenge"
Brian Crain, USA, Spring Symphonies

Here is a link for a poem set to a Mozart melody that seems tailor-made for the occasion:
http://ingeb.org/Lieder/ubimmert.html

But I'm not a lawyer, and it seems to me that other considerations of common sense should have been considered, and were not. And it was, as I see it, up to the lawyers - on one side or another - to come up with a way to avoid what turned out to be a long and draining result. But that's what makes ...

Corlyss_D wrote: I don't recall reading anywhere that it was his only professional outlet or even a major source of income. That's what makes the lengths to which he was willing to go so appalling. It certainly was his major source of income. All members of the quartet had full time positions at Vi...

The parties in the Audubon Quartet have reached a settlement, ending the legal dispute. For legal reasons, the settlement cannot take full effect until deadlines for claims (which could theoretically still be brought by yet unknown creditors) are expired. As announced previously, Shaw and Lederer wi...

My web site has already been cited in this thread: http://hometown.aol.com/renardym Many of the original court documents and other facts on the history of this case are available there. I would like to address one particular point that has been raised in this thread: The Bergonzi violin was for Ehrl...