Well I give up trying to make a poll. Pft.

I have never had the patience to work polls out...

Scheidt

Crappius all the way Or Schytte.

Fuchs, with his well-known book 'Fuchs Children's Pieces', used on the new piano syllabus (grade 2 I think).

The person who wrote a piece on the Grade 8 flute syllabus:

Taktak....(I can't remember how to spell the rest of his name)

Apart from "John Gay" which I feel slightly schoolboy-like in mentioning, I have to go with the inimitable pair of Suk and Blow

Must have written for the harmonica surely

Taktakishvilli? Though I have probably spelt it wrong. Russian, I think(?)

Tee hee hee.

There's also Georg (pron. 'gay-org') Bender...

Ooh, don't forget Ponce! I was listening to some Ponce today actually over dinner and jolly good it was too.

Taktakishvili.......it's a nice piece!

How about this for an unusual name?

I was amused for hours after I read that the CIA spokeswomen person was called Jennifer Dyck.

I notice a theme emerging with these names...!

William Crotch?
Ronald Binge?

While we're about it, who wrote the music for "entrance of the gladiators"... you know that kind of famous circusy piece....

*googles*
*laughs*

Oo- ER, Matron!

*goes to lie down in darkened room*

Here it is in MIDI glory... entrance of the gladiators...

The person that write the Dance of the Sugar plum fairy. I'm not even gonna attempt to spell his name but it starts with a T

Tchaikovsky!

What do you think about the Swedish, or Norwegian... -can't remember- composer with this name "Rautavaara"... come on!

I can't cope with something this beautiful so early in the morning...

The composer Fucik??
The one who wrote the "March of the Gigedators....(sp? completely lost....okay??)

Domenico Zipoli?

Of course one shouldn't forget Oliphant Chuckerbutty.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliphant_Chuckerbutty

Arvo Pärt, or Khataturian.

Giovanni Pizza da Chiesa

Surely his wife must have been Marguerita

Nice one Jane. And I'm sure he was the one who wrote "the Four Seasons" and not Vivaldi

Entry of the Gladiators ... wasn't that one of the tunes that the Two Ronnies used in their Brass Band sketch?

"Here it comes then - last number - Entry of the Gladiators. See you at the stage door straight after - the Chinese shuts at 11 -
(sings)
Prawn chop suey and a chicken fritter,
Large Drambuie and a pint of bitter,
Corkscrews and waiters,
Rice and potaters,

"'urry up and finish with these ######## gladiators

Three pink gins and a Napoleon brandy,
Two dry sherries and a half of shandy,

I'll run amok! two crispy duck!

wishing you the best of luck

Herbert's drunk so much he can hardly stand etc etc

So - it's goodnight from the boys in the band."

Ah - bless 'em.

How about Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf? Or not really............?

Played a piece last weekend by OSBERT PARSLEY!

Yeah, thats the one

Rautavaara is Finnish. He has a long first name as well , but havent time to look it up just now.

Of course my Giovanni Pizza da Chiesa (see earlier post) was a complete figment of my imagination.
Some years ago when I was involved in admin of a Youth Orchestra, I set a short quiz of the 'Odd man out' type.
I asked which was odd one out of Giovanni Pizza da Chiesa, Oliphant Chuckerbutty, Zoltan Sosij, and Freud Rascherov-Hamm.

Of course Oliphant is the only genuine composer.

some very convincing "names" there!

Englebert Humperdinck - the real German one who was a friend of Wagner and Strauss.

Ah.... Manuel Ponce.

Personally, I'd prefer an automatic one but each to their own...





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Yes, that sums up polls nicely!

Thanks, WS, you've just given me three badly-needed giggles (the other one being from the Bouffant baby thread).

ROFLMAO