Hey cheps,

just wondering whether surname initials got to do to music...
I mean ...most succesful musician had the initial of "B" like Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Bartok....etc.

Mine's "C" same as Chopin's

Mine's "C" also, but there is not another musical person in my family, so I'm not sure that theory works!

S- hmm Stravinsky bleurgh...no way lol...erm

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

QUOTE (tooty_flute @ Apr 5 2005, 08:31 AM)

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

well there's like, Schumann,Schubert,Shostavkovich, would say im a big fan of any!

I'm sure there is a great wonderful composer beginningwith 'S' that we just cant think of at the moment!

M! - Mozart, thats fine with me. S - what about Scarlatti? I quite like Scarlatti. Theres also Schoenberg - no comment!!

no not Scarlatti

erm i know!!!................................Smozart, and Seinaudi

P for Poulenc.........

W for... erm.... erm....

Edit: Thanks Nat. Weber!

Oooh and Andrew Lloyd Webber... and John Williams?

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

W for... erm.... erm....

for Warlock??

H- for Help me I don't know any composers with second initial H!

Handel? Haydn? Humperdinck??

Haydn or Handel. Can't think of any more at the moment.

Wait I found some....Handel, Haydn. If your having trouble look here

Thanks Noodle! Just saw your post.

What about Hindemith?

Yeh he's on that list of composers (click on the link in my previous post.)

T?! That guy that i cant spell, Telemann, i cant spell that either! Lol.

H - Holst?
S - Sibelius?
W - it's a cheat but Vaughn Williams (not sure if I've spelt that properly...)

I'm trying to think of L's - Liszt, Lilburn - ??

Mine's E -

Einaudi??




Hehe

QUOTE (Fen @ Apr 5 2005, 10:51 AM)

H - Holst?

Handel, Haydn (x 2)

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S - Sibelius?

Schein, Scheidt, Schutz, Spohr, Strauss (several of them), Sullivan. I suspect the Australian someone was thinking of is Peter Sculthorpe.

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W - it's a cheat but Vaughn Williams (not sure if I've spelt that properly...)

Ward, Weelkes, Wilbye, Walton, Warlock, Webern, Weil, Grace Williams.

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I'm trying to think of L's - Liszt, Lilburn - ??

Lawes, Lully, Lutyens, Lutoslawski, Ligeti.

QUOTE (kenm @ Apr 5 2005, 12:18 PM)

QUOTE I'm trying to think of L's - Liszt, Lilburn - ?? Lawes, Lully, Lutyens, Lutoslawski, Ligeti.

Thanks kenm - L's mine, but I'd add Lassus too...

Well I'm J...any ideas??
jess (there's probably a really obvious answer I haven't thought of!)

Joplin?!

Of course... I'm so dim!

S for Sibelius, who also has the same birthday as me - so plenty of time to save up and buy me nice presents

H can be Hummel

Here is a list of composers I know...which I thought of during a lesson.
Albinoni, Anderson, Adam, Addinsell, Abel
Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Barber, Britten, Bartok, Bath, Berlioz, Brahms, Bizet, Bernstein, Bruckner, Burgmuller
Corelli, Chopin, Czerny, Cage, Copland
Dukas, Debussy, Delibes, Dvorak, Dohnanyi
Elgar
Franck, Field, Faure, Foster
Gade, Glass, Gershwin, Gounod, Ginastera, Grofe
Handel, Haydn, Holst, Hindemith, Hummel, Hanon
Ivanovici (this one I am not sure about the spelling)
Joplin
Kabalevsky, Ketelbey, Kreisler, Kodaly
Lehar, Liszt
Mahler, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Mussorgsky, Mascagni, Massenet, Moszkowski
Orff, Offenbach
Paganini, Palestrina, Puccini, Prokofiev, Purcell, Poulenc, Pachelbel, Piazolla
Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini, Rodrigo
Scarlatti, Satie, Smetana, Schubert, Schumann, Stravinsky, Saint-saens, Schoenberg, Strauss, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Scriabin, Suppe
Tchaikovsky, Telemann
Vivaldi, Verdi
Wagner, Weber, Webber, Williams

Hope it is complete for famous composers and can shorten the long composers list

You've got far too much time on your hands Alvin! LOL!

K, so Kabalevsky, Ketelbey, Kreisler, Kodaly, but embarassingly I've never heard of Kabalevsky, Ketelbey or Kreisler !

You know Kreisler but haven't heard him?!

I know Kabalevsky composed piano works and violin concerto.
And Ketelbey is famous mainly by In a Persian Market.

D-Dukas, Debussy, Delibes, Dvorak, Dohnanyi

QUOTE (Jen W @ Apr 5 2005, 11:33 AM)

Thanks kenm - L's mine, but I'd add Lassus too...

Of course! He's a better composer than either Lawes, IMO. Not really comparable with the others.

QUOTE (nutter @ Apr 5 2005, 12:02 PM)

Well I'm J...any ideas?? jess  :) (there's probably a really obvious answer I haven't thought of!)

Josquin; it was his given name, but he was before surnames became common. Jenkins: wrote viol fantasias in the middle of the 17th C. Joseph Joachim, Brahms' violin playing friend, also composed. Joubert: 20th C, English (IIRC).

J so Joplin, Jenkins etc

mines 'M like mozart

S for Howard Shore!!!! im in love with the Lord of the Rings music!

QUOTE (Alvin @ Apr 5 2005, 03:35 PM)

You know Kreisler but haven't heard him?!

No, I copied the four names from your list!

QUOTE (july @ Apr 6 2005, 04:59 AM)

QUOTE (Alvin @ Apr 5 2005, 03:35 PM) You know Kreisler but haven't heard him?! No, I copied the four names from your list!

Okay, I misunderstood that.

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Schein, Scheidt, Schutz, Spohr, Strauss (several of them), Sullivan.

Did anyone else hear the programme om bbc radio 3 a couple of Saturdays ago when the presenter recommended a boxed set of cds which included "a whole hour of Scheidt" ? Wonderful moment. I bet he waited a long time for that opportunity.

Maggie

How did he manage to say that with a straight face?

I can't believe I get to share with Polenc. No doubt Natalie will find that hysterical...

QUOTE (tamsin @ Apr 6 2005, 01:11 PM)

I can't believe I get to share with Polenc. No doubt Natalie will find that hysterical...

*falls off chair in hysterics*

haha

Mine's O, as in Ockeghem, Offenbach, Orff and... erm, that's about it, really!

Has anyone mentioned Janacek yet for J?

QUOTE (Alvin @ Apr 6 2005, 09:22 AM)

QUOTE (july @ Apr 6 2005, 04:59 AM) QUOTE (Alvin @ Apr 5 2005, 03:35 PM) You know Kreisler but haven't heard him?! No, I copied the four names from your list! Okay, I misunderstood that.

No problem!

QUOTE (woodwind @ Apr 6 2005, 03:24 PM)

Mine's O, as in Ockeghem, Offenbach, Orff and... erm, that's about it, really!

Obrecht, Onslow.

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Has anyone mentioned Janacek yet for J?

No, but I should have done, as he is one of my favourite composers.

L....hehe yay ...Liszt....i want to compose like he did...if only

mines "K", hmmm... Khachaturian (sp?) Kreisler, Kodaly, umm no really famous composers (no offense to them!)

J...... no my name is not jasbeth.

mine is ''K'', anyone?i cant find any famous composers or misicians with this surname initials.

QUOTE (i like piano @ Apr 7 2005, 04:38 AM)

mine is ''K'', anyone?i cant find any famous composers or misicians with this surname initials.

there are lots for K...

Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Kagel (1931- )
Kalkbrenner (1785-1849)
Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
Keiser (1674-1739)
Kerle (c. 1531-1591)
Kerll (1627-1693)
Khatchaturian (1903-1978)
Kirchner (1919- )
Kirnberger (1721-1783)
Klein (1919-1945)
Kodaly (1882-1967)
Koechlin (1867-1950)
Konrad von Würzburg (c. 1225-1287)
Korngold (1897-1957)
Kozeluch (1747-1818)
Krebs (1713-1780)
Kreisler (1875-1962)
Krenek (1900-1991)
Krieger, J. (1652-1735)
Krieger, J. P. (1649-1725)
Krommer (1759-1831)
Kubik (1914-1984)
Kuhlau (1786-1832)
Kuhnau (1660-1722)
Kurtág (1926- )

lol, I got those from that website...(see page 1)

Can any of you think of a composer's name start with "X" ??
(except Xenakis ).

My initials are JSB......

Johann Sebastian Bach for me

Jane