Alphabet Associations - II

[Nick Armstrong]

... are there any questioning Volunteers?

Oh ok then!

This V links half a dozen Overtures with Hadrian (just before he became Emperor) and 'As You Like It'

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Oh ok then!

This V links half a dozen Overtures with Hadrian (just before he became Emperor) and 'As You Like It'

Francesco Maria Veracini:

Composed 6 Overtures in 1716, and the operas Adriano in Siria (1735) (about Hadrian as Governor of Syria, before he became Emperor) and Roselinda (1744) (based on As You Like It)

[Nick Armstrong]

Veracini:

Composed 6 Overtures in 1716, and the operas Adriano in Siria (1735) (about Hadrian as Governor of Syria, before he became Emperor) and Roselinda (1744) (based on As You Like It)

As complete an answer as it would be possible to give, scb

Why not take it away, maestro?

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As complete an answer as it would be possible to give, scb

Why not take it away, maestro?

Interesting section in Wikipedia on Varacini:

" Back in London he composed his last opera, Roselinda, based on Shakespeare's play As You Like It, a most unusual choice of material at that time. In that opera Veracini included the well-known Scots ballad tune The Lass of Paties Mill. It was staged in London in 1744, the same year his oratorio (described as an opera in Burney 1789, 4:451) L'errore di Salomone was staged. Burney (1789, 4:451), scorned the music of Roselinda as "wild, awkward, and unpleasant; manifestly produced by a man unaccustomed to write for the voice, and one possessed of a capo pazzo", and ridiculed the inclusion of the ballad tune as an attempt "to flatter the English" that failed because "few of the North Britons, or admirers of this national and natural Music, frequent the opera, or mean to give half a guinea to hear a Scots tune, which perhaps their cook-maid Peggy can sing better than any foreigner", but confessed that "This opera, to my great astonishment when I examined the Music, ran twelve nights", whereas L'errore di Salomone was given only twice."

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Interesting section in Wikipedia on Varacini:

" Back in London he composed his last opera, Roselinda, based on Shakespeare's play As You Like It, a most unusual choice of material at that time. In that opera Veracini included the well-known Scots ballad tune The Lass of Paties Mill. It was staged in London in 1744, the same year his oratorio (described as an opera in Burney 1789, 4:451) L'errore di Salomone was staged. Burney (1789, 4:451), scorned the music of Roselinda as "wild, awkward, and unpleasant; manifestly produced by a man unaccustomed to write for the voice, and one possessed of a capo pazzo", and ridiculed the inclusion of the ballad tune as an attempt "to flatter the English" that failed because "few of the North Britons, or admirers of this national and natural Music, frequent the opera, or mean to give half a guinea to hear a Scots tune, which perhaps their cook-maid Peggy can sing better than any foreigner", but confessed that "This opera, to my great astonishment when I examined the Music, ran twelve nights", whereas L'errore di Salomone was given only twice."

All these comments come from Wikipedia.

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All these comments come from Wikipedia.

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W:

One Johann built organs, along with his brother, another Johann. A third Johann (possibly related) also built harpsichords and invented the clavecin royal.

[antongould]

W:

One Johann built organs, along with his brother, another Johann. A third Johann (possibly related) also built harpsichords and invented the clavecin royal.

Wagner?

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Wagner?

Would you care to elaborate?

[antongould]

Would you care to elaborate?

Is Pastor Johann C Wagner in here scb?

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Is Pastor Johann C Wagner in here scb?

One of them is a Johann C.

[antongould]

One of them is a Johann C.

.... and brother Joachim(?)

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.... and brother Joachim(?)

Not on the card. Different family, I think.

[antongould]

Not on the card. Different family, I think.

Struggling here scb with Google Translate of a German wiki article but Johann Wagner was the inventor wasn't he?

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Struggling here scb with Google Translate of a German wiki article but Johann Wagner was the inventor wasn't he?

One of them was. There seem to be an awful lot of organ builders named Johann Wagner. We need the middle names to distinguish them.