I am!

Me too!

I guess some Asian people will have last names of"x" ...
like Xiao,Xeong,Xonoi....

what about surnames with Y??

QUOTE (pianist_1210 @ Apr 14 2005, 07:33 AM)

what about surnames with Y??

Ysaye!!!

Mine is L !

QUOTE (janexxx @ Apr 14 2005, 07:36 AM)

QUOTE (pianist_1210 @ Apr 14 2005, 07:33 AM) what about surnames with Y?? Ysaye!!!

is that your surname?? that's cool

QUOTE (tooty_flute @ Apr 5 2005, 07:31 AM)

Mines 'S' too - not that musical. I guess there peter scelon (cant spell) who writes songs and urm.......

Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Scarlatti, Shostakovitch, Saint-Saens, Satie, Scriabin, Smetana, Stockhausen, Strauss!!!

Violinia

QUOTE (Violinia @ Apr 14 2005, 10:19 AM)

QUOTE (tooty_flute @ Apr 5 2005, 07:31 AM) Mines 'S' too - not that musical. I guess there peter scelon (cant spell) who writes songs and urm.......  <_< Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Scarlatti, Shostakovitch, Saint-Saens, Satie, Scriabin, Smetana, Stockhausen, Strauss!!! Violinia

ops, you forgot Salieri and simpsons...

Mine's B

I'll go for Bach!

QUOTE (Violinia @ Apr 14 2005, 10:19 AM)

Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Scarlatti, Shostakovitch, Saint-Saens, Satie, Scriabin, Smetana, Stockhausen, Strauss!!!

...and Strauss, and Strauss, and Strauss, and Strauss...

A whole dynasty who could only write in 3/4. (OK, that's a bit unfair, but you get the picture). And then Richard Strauss, who wasn't related, but did write Der Rosenkavalier. In, er, 3/4.

Having an S surname is cool as it matches loads of composers (but not as cool as my maiden name, which was the same as a (fairly obscure) Scottish composer).

mines G for Greig and um thats all i can think of.

QUOTE (zippy113 @ Apr 14 2005, 07:06 PM)

mines G for Greig and um thats all i can think of.

Gluck

QUOTE (zippy113 @ Apr 14 2005, 07:06 PM)

mines G for Greig and um thats all i can think of.

Granados, Gluck

Who is Gluck by the way?

Wobby

QUOTE (Wobby @ Apr 14 2005, 07:32 PM)

Who is Gluck by the way?

a Baroque composer

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Apr 14 2005, 06:46 PM)

QUOTE (Wobby @ Apr 14 2005, 07:32 PM) Who is Gluck by the way? a Baroque composer

so what's your last name initial Natalie??

QUOTE (zippy113 @ Apr 14 2005, 06:06 PM)

mines G for Greig and um thats all i can think of.

Gabrieli (two of them), Gesualdo, Gibbons, Glinka, Glière, Grechaninov, Grainger ("A Lincolnshire Posy" was broadcast this morning )

J for me who apart from Joplin is there?

QUOTE

J for me who apart from Joplin is there?

Josquin, Janacek, John Joubert, Joseph Jongen

Maggie

QUOTE (pianist_1210 @ Apr 15 2005, 07:45 AM)

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Apr 14 2005, 06:46 PM) QUOTE (Wobby @ Apr 14 2005, 07:32 PM) Who is Gluck by the way? a Baroque composer so what's your last name initial Natalie??

S as ive already said

QUOTE (janexxx @ Apr 8 2005, 08:19 AM)

I am proud and honoured to share mine with Nathan Milstein.

do i get a point for sharing the first name? . Now why cudnt he be called nathan holst or something beginning with H?

going back to birthdays does anybody know a composer who was born on the 17th of april? (which is tomorrow may i add)

Nobody (as far as I could tell) went to Z.

That's Frank Zappa.

And before the protests etc flood in, so what. As far as I'm concerned, he was the best. Of all. So there.

PS. I respect all the other choices cos lots were really good composers, and even when I didn't agree (or hadn't heard of them), hey, that's your choice. Nothing wrong with that. Just not up there with FZ.

QUOTE (Suzy Creamcheese @ Apr 16 2005, 01:49 AM)

Nobody (as far as I could tell) went to Z. That's Frank Zappa. And before the protests etc flood in, so what. As far as I'm concerned, he was the best. Of all. So there. PS. I respect all the other choices cos lots were really good composers, and even when I didn't agree (or hadn't heard of them), hey, that's your choice. Nothing wrong with that. Just not up there with FZ.

what are you talking about??I don't really understand....

QUOTE (frenchyhorn @ Apr 15 2005, 05:27 PM)

J for me who apart from Joplin is there?

See page 3 of this thread (two posts).

I'm M for Mozart! I wish I was as good a composer as he was.

QUOTE (pianist_1210 @ Apr 16 2005, 09:08 AM)

QUOTE (Suzy Creamcheese @ Apr 16 2005, 01:49 AM) Nobody (as far as I could tell) went to Z. That's Frank Zappa. And before the protests etc flood in, so what.  As far as I'm concerned, he was the best.  Of all.  So there. PS.  I respect all the other choices cos lots were really good composers, and even when I didn't agree (or hadn't heard of them), hey, that's your choice.  Nothing wrong with that.  Just not up there with FZ. what are you talking about??I don't really understand....

Oh dear. In the cold light of day, I don't know what I was talking about either. Mind you, it was 01:49 am and I had just finished the bottle so ...

Still, that doesn't alter the fact that Frank Zappa's name starts with a 'Z'. Or that he was (is) a genius.

QUOTE (Suzy Creamcheese @ Apr 16 2005, 12:39 PM)

QUOTE (pianist_1210 @ Apr 16 2005, 09:08 AM) QUOTE (Suzy Creamcheese @ Apr 16 2005, 01:49 AM) Nobody (as far as I could tell) went to Z. That's Frank Zappa. And before the protests etc flood in, so what.  As far as I'm concerned, he was the best.  Of all.  So there. PS.  I respect all the other choices cos lots were really good composers, and even when I didn't agree (or hadn't heard of them), hey, that's your choice.  Nothing wrong with that.  Just not up there with FZ. what are you talking about??I don't really understand.... Oh dear. In the cold light of day, I don't know what I was talking about either. Mind you, it was 01:49 am and I had just finished the bottle so ... Still, that doesn't alter the fact that Frank Zappa's name starts with a 'Z'. Or that he was (is) a genius.

That's alright ...lol
I was thinking that my English has deproved because that I did understand your writing,....now I feel better now, thanks

QUOTE (Subatomic_Star @ Apr 5 2005, 08:46 AM)

W for... erm.... erm.... Edit: Thanks Nat. Weber! Oooh and Andrew Lloyd Webber... and John Williams?

Wagner too!

QUOTE (Jade @ Apr 11 2005, 08:36 PM)

Ok, I've just found out I share my birthday with Ruggero Leoncavallo. I've never heard of him, has anyone else??

Yes - Italian, late 19thC, he wrote operas, if I remember right, "I Pagliacci" is the known one!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Apr 14 2005, 06:46 PM)

QUOTE (Wobby @ Apr 14 2005, 07:32 PM) Who is Gluck by the way? a Baroque composer

Try Orfeo et Euridyce...

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Apr 14 2005, 06:46 PM)

QUOTE (Wobby @ Apr 14 2005, 07:32 PM) Who is Gluck by the way? a Baroque composer

That's strictly correct, in that he was born in 1714 and was producing dramatic music ("Artaserse") as early as 1741. However, the works for which he is best known ("Orfeo ed Euridice", "Alceste", "Iphigénie en Aulide", "Armide" and "Iphigénie en Tauride") fall into the classical period. They differed in style from Baroque opera, incorporating innovations that improved the dramatic flow, and influenced the development of Classical opera. He died in 1787.

QUOTE (kenm @ Apr 18 2005, 09:54 AM)

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Apr 14 2005, 06:46 PM) QUOTE (Wobby @ Apr 14 2005, 07:32 PM) Who is Gluck by the way? a Baroque composer That's strictly correct, in that he was born in 1714 and was producing dramatic music ("Artaserse") as early as 1741. However, the works for which he is best known ("Orfeo ed Euridice", "Alceste", "Iphigénie en Aulide", "Armide" and "Iphigénie en Tauride") fall into the classical period. They differed in style from Baroque opera, incorporating innovations that improved the dramatic flow, and influenced the development of Classical opera. He died in 1787.

So he could be 1/2 baroque and 1/2 classical....