Sporting composers

[LMcD]

Could happen to a bishop.

Danish footballer Harald Nielsen.

[Petrushka]

There have been a few racehorses named after composers most notably recently with some of Aidan O'Brien's horses on the Flat, including Sergei Prokofiev, van Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Mahler. There seems to be a classical music fan amongst his owners.

Another musically related horse, for those with longer memories, was Rheingold in the early 1970s.

[LezLee]

The 1950s Russian centre-half Dimitri Vladimirovich Kykabolokov, left an unfinished piano trio - I don't know if that qualifies him as a composer, though.

[gurnemanz]

I would have like to have joined one of Arnold Schoenberg's famous tennis doubles in California which included the likes of Charlie Chaplin, George Gershwin and Groucho Marx (whose mother's maiden name coincidentally was also Schönberg). I believe he was quite a decent tennis player but his son became something of a local champion. I read somewhere that Arnold was walking along on the UCLA campus one day and overheard a couple of students pointing towards him. One of them observed: That's Schoenberg's father!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I would have like to have joined one of Arnold Schoenberg's famous tennis doubles in California which included the likes of Charlie Chaplin, George Gershwin and Groucho Marx (whose mother's maiden name coincidentally was also Schönberg). I believe he was quite a decent tennis player but his son became something of a local champion. I read somewhere that Arnold was walking along on the UCLA campus one day and overheard a couple of students pointing towards him. One of them observed: That's Schoenberg's father!

- Arnie was a vigorous, if not entirely successful Tennis Player, so much so that, when he first started teaching a UCL in the mid-30s, he would teach his students in his tennis clothes so that he didn't waste any time after the lessons. He attempted the same policy when he moved to UCLA, but a quiet word from the Dean put a stop to this.

He passed his enthusiasm on to his children, with Ronald becoming, as you say, rather more proficient than his father.



... and always insured that the racquet was tuned to A = 440

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

https://luisdias.wordpress.com/2016/07/10/advantage-music/

[LezLee]

Some would say Schoenberg used a lot of strings to make a racket...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Some would say Schoenberg used a lot of strings to make a racket...

Would they? Some people live very sad lives, don't they.

[LMcD]

Would they? Some people live very sad lives, don't they.

There's an American soccer player called Andrew Weber.

[Oakapple]

Apparently Elgar set the words "he banged the leather for goal" to music after reading them in a newspaper report about a football match. I've never been able to find this music, though.

[LezLee]

Apparently Elgar set the words "he banged the leather for goal" to music after reading them in a newspaper report about a football match. I've never been able to find this music, though.

http://www.elgar.org/1queries.htm

[richardfinegold]

When I was young our local professional baseball team added a marginal player named Richard Wagner (pronounces Wag-ner). When ever his name was mentioned my father would yell “Ree-kard Vagnher at the plate” and start goosestepping around the room humming the Prelude to Meistersinger. It was only years later after I got into Music that I understood the joke.

[gurnemanz]

Scheidt was one of Glasgow Celtic's most disastrous signings, aptly matching his name with his standard of play.

[cloughie]

Some would say Schoenberg used a lot of strings to make a racket...

Miserables?