I have no idea who wrote 'To a Garden Rose'....can't find anything about it.

**Maybe it's one of Petrats own compositions??**

No, not one of mine. Your friend Google has let you down today. Actually it is one of the pieces in the current London College of Music step one piano exam book. It is a little take-off of the McDowell piece and I can't remember who wrote it.

Who wrote the song "I Want to be a Prima Donna" ?

Nearest I found was Rose in Garden of Weeds by ?Hubert David
not quite what you asked for though.

Victor Herbert and Harry B Smith from the 1911 opera The Enchantress.

Who wrote 'Froissart'

wasn't it Elgar - I heard it the other day - I think ! chivalry and all that ??
(ed - yes, opus 19)

who wrote missa bel' amfitrit altera ?

Orlando Lassus

Who composed 'Symphony No 1'

Sorry too many answers.

Who composed 'Dansereye 1551'

My pal Susato did. Actually he is every recorder player's pal.

Who composed the Welsh National anthem?

Father and son team of Evan James and James James

Who composed 'To October' , symphonically speaking

Shostakovich i think.

I'm rubbish at thinking up questions (hence the chopsticks one)

...

Who composed the flower duet (think british airways advert)

was it Delibes ?


who wrote Chant de Mai ?

Had to go through the old record collection for this. Sulzberger wrote it for violin and piano.

Who composed the piano solo The Towing-Path?

maybe! although I was thinking of a piece for solo organ by Joseph Jongen. I'll check I've remembered the title correctly though.

The Towing Path is by John Ireland.

Who composed "Take him, earth, for cherishing " ?

Thats a great anthem, Herbert Howells best, wasnt it originally for John F Kennedys funeral ? Or at east dedicated to him.

Who wrote 'Siciliano for a High Ceremony' ?

Herbert Howells..

Who composed I was Glad

Hubert Parry !

(f#minor yes, it was certainly written for JFK)

who composed This is the record of John?

Orlando Gibbons

Who composed 'Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Cyril Scott' ?

Edmund Rubbra

who wrote The Carman's Whistle ?

It was an ancient tune and anon by the time that William Byrd wrote his variations on it.

Who composed The Perfect Fool?

was it Gustav Holst
*goes to check*

yep -
who composed Nixon in China ?

It was John C Adams, and I must admit that I had to ask my friend Goofle for help as I didn,t know that one.

Who composed the music for the ballet Appalachian Spring?

Goofle I like !

it was Aaron Copland

who wrote Loqueabantur variis linguis ?(think I've spelt that correctly ..)

Thomas Tallis

who composed the chorus of the hebrew slaves?

Giuseppe Verdi

Who composed a Typewriter Concerto ?

In Spe

Who composed 'Adrenalin City'?

Adam Gorb

Who composed 'Hommage a T.S.Eliot' and 'Dancer on a tightrope'

Sofia Gubaidulina

Who composed Les collines d'Anacapri?

Debussy

Who composed Op. 37 Valse Caprices

Grieg/Faure ??

Who composed Cello Sonata No.3 in A Major, Op. 69?

Luddie

Who composed The All-Night Vigil for unaccompanied choir (1915)

Rachmaninov (beautiful piece...)

Who composed I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen


*Luddie???! *

Thomas Westendorf.

Who composed Masques et Bergamasques, Op. 112

I think it was Gabriel Faure.

Who composed the Kreisler Quartet ?

Kreisler did!!

Who composed Cockles and Muscles?

Sure 'twas James Yorkson 'twas.

Who composed the opera Orlando?

George Frideric Handel

Who composed "Narcissus"?

Narcissus, can be a) A piano piece by E.W.Nevin b)an Opera by Stoelzel c) a song by Morissette.

Questions on here really should only be capable of one answer !

Who composed 'These Premises are Alarmed' ? (or have I asked that before ?)

It was Thomas Ades. (I cannot get this machine to add accents despite it being 100% Welsh.)

Who composed the part song Sumer Is Icumen In?

Anonymous, though sometimes ascribed to W Wycombe.

Who composed 'La Maschera Nuda' (The nude lady in a mask ?)

I have no idea who wrote it! but it reminds me of a tale, no doubt apocryphal ---

Three Cambridge dons lying sunbathing and reading in the altogether on the bank of the Cam, when a boatload of young female undergrads comes into view.

Two of the dons cover up the - obvious - with newspapers, but the third grabs his book and holds it over his face.

Boat having passed, the four turn with raised eyebrows to the third, who explains " I'm recognised by my face - what about you two ?"

(sorry - back on topic).

No answer on La Maschera Nuda.

Its an opera by Leoncavallo.

Who composed ' Sonatine Bureaucratique' and who was he making fun of ?

A composer making fun of someone? Has to be my friend, surely...I'll go and have a look!!


Ahhh...Satie taking the mickey out of Clementi!

Who composed MacBeth (1848)

Giuseppe Verdi (Joe Green in English)


Who composed 'The Shepherd's Song'

Follow your own rules F#- Old Bean! I can think of several answers to this one.

Roger Quilter, Haydn, Schubert, Purcell, Me, Salutrinskaya, Elgar etc.

Who wrote the song Come into the Garden , Maud? (NOT the Balfe version!)

Sorry its the Elagr I was thinking of.
The only 'Maud' I know is the Balfe, so maybe someone else knows.

Tennyson???

Nope.

Petrat, I think youve stumped us on that! Put us out of our misery and ask us another !

I have forgotten the question now! Oh yes.
It was Sir Arthur Somervill who set the Maud songs of Tennyson as a song cycle.

Who wrote Variations on a Rococo Theme?

was it Tchaikovsky ?