Alphabet Associations - II

[LeMartinPecheur]

I seem to remember reading something about an opera premiere on May the 9th 2013 .....

You're clearly no fool and your memory has not been in Vain!

[subcontrabass]

The complete list seems to be:

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Op 55 Ballet The Golden Key & Op 144 Opera The Idiot

Jaromir Weinberger: Operetta Jarní bouře ("Spring Storms") & The Devil in the Belfry for Violin and Orchestra

Leo Weiner: Op 5 Carnival for small orchestra & Der Traurige Hirte ("The Sad Shepherd") for Clarinet and Piano

So the word required was "Wein".

[Pulcinella]

The complete list seems to be:

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Op 55 Ballet The Golden Key & Op 144 Opera The Idiot

Jaromir Weinberger: Operetta Jarní bouře ("Spring Storms") & The Devil in the Belfry for Violin and Orchestra

Leo Weiner: Op 5 Carnival for small orchestra & Der Traurige Hirte ("The Sad Shepherd") for Clarinet and Piano

So the word required was "Wein".

Which indeed was/is a clever twist on Wien/Vienna.

[greenilex]

Makes me think of white wine at wooden tables overlooking the city...

[LeMartinPecheur]

The complete list seems to be:

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Op 55 Ballet The Golden Key & Op 144 Opera The Idiot

Jaromir Weinberger: Operetta Jarní bouře ("Spring Storms") & The Devil in the Belfry for Violin and Orchestra

Leo Weiner: Op 5 Carnival for small orchestra & Der Traurige Hirte ("The Sad Shepherd") for Clarinet and Piano

So the word required was "Wein".

A very comprehensive answer scb! Even though Pulcie made the breakthrough I reckon the honours are yours, as well as full bonus points. So it must be over to you for an eXemplary X Or a less tAxing A if that's too eXhAusting.

[Pulcinella]

A very comprehensive answer scb! Even though Pulcie made the breakthrough I reckon the honours are yours, as well as full bonus points. So it must be over to you for an eXemplary X Or a less tAxing A if that's too eXhAusting.

The page-loading problems that occasionally affected long threads seem to have gone away, but even so, this could be a good opportunity to start AA III as a brand new thread (but only if we start again with the letter A, though I can't imagine anyone wanting the terrible trio of X, Y, and Z!).

[LMcD]

Which indeed was/is a clever twist on Wien/Vienna.

Ja - Wein(e) aus Wien!
This would seem an ideal opportunity to start AAIII - with an 'A' from subcontrabass?.

[subcontrabass]

I have an 'X' before we move on, which links 28 (and 28a), a first piano concerto dedicated to and performed by Liszt, and an unfinished final work.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I have an 'X' before we move on, which links 28 (and 28a), a first piano concerto dedicated to and performed by Liszt, and an unfinished final work.

Anything to do with Xaver/Xavier? There are a helluva lot of composers called Franz Xaver something (Brixi, Hammer, MOZART fils, Neruda, Richter, Scharwenka for starters...).

Franz Xaver Scharwenka, known as Xaver, dedicated his 1st piano concerto to Liszt but it's Op32 (His Op28 is '6 Waltzes' with no sign of a 28A.)

On Amazon 28A throws up many hits for Godowsky, possibly to do with a Tchaik transcription. [EDIT Among his versions of the Chopin Studies, he has a 28 and a 28A which show up quite a bit.] He doesn't appear to be a Xaver sadly, but his '44 Var's, Cadenza and Fugue' is on the 1st theme of the Unfinished Symph.

Scharwenka and Godowsky do connect a little bit as contemporary virtuosi, and piano teachers in the US.

Not yet compelling as linkages I know but I'm doing my best, with much assistance from Google, Grove etc...

[subcontrabass]

Anything to do with Xaver/Xavier? There are a helluva lot of composers called Franz Xaver something (Brixi, Hammer, MOZART fils, Neruda, Richer for starters...).

Xaver Scharwenka dedicated his 1st piano concerto to Liszt but it's Op32

On Amazon Op28A throws up many hits for Godowsky, no Xaver apparently. His '44 Var's, Cadenza and Fugue' is on the 1st theme of the Unfinished Symph.

Correct piano concerto. 28 is not an opus number.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Correct piano concerto. 28 is not an opus number.

See my further edits: is 28/ 28A anything to do with Godowsky's Chopin-study 'arrangements'?

[subcontrabass]

See my further edits: is 28/ 28A anything to do with Godowsky's Chopin-study 'arrangements'?

No. They are somewhat earlier.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Trying to Google 28A has taught me a lot about bus-routes!

[LMcD]

Trying to Google 28A has taught me a lot about bus-routes!

Do any of them pass through Mornington Crescent?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Ah, Franz Xaver Sussmayr finished Mozart's unfinished Requiem K626. After a fashion anyway