Alphabet associations - I

[Anna]

Oh, thanks for that (not being an opera fan) all I got when googling Golem and Glasgow was either Pokeman or really weird stuff, some of it to do with Lord of the Rings.

So let us progress to an F, as detailed above, and I won't be around until the early hours, so please start without me!

[mercia]

So let us progress to an F

sorry did I push you out of the way, Anna? how very ungallant
I bet you were itching to set a question

[cloughie]

Oh, thanks for that (not being an opera fan) all I got when googling Golem and Glasgow was either Pokeman or really weird stuff, some of it to do with Lord of the Rings.

So let us progress to an F, as detailed above, and I won't be around until the early hours, so please start without me!

Does it help to identifty the R J and A - are they all composers - if so 2 German and one French?

[mercia]

2 German and one French?

Albert is German too (this collaboration is probably his main claim to fame)

[Anna]

sorry did I push you out of the way, Anna? how very ungallant
I bet you were itching to set a question

I would have been itching if I had got anything right, which I seem uncapable of doing at the moment! No, I am just your affable, aimiable, anna, happy to be third man in the slips (have I got the cricket analogy right?)

[cloughie]

I would have been itching if I had got anything right, which I seem uncapable of doing at the moment! No, I am just your affable, aimiable, anna, happy to be third man in the slips (have I got the cricket analogy right?)

From R J and A we get FAE.

[mercia]

From R J and A we get FAE.

that is indeed my F

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27F-A-E%27_Sonata

a galloping G from cloughie ?

[Anna]

From R J and A we get FAE.

Explanation please? (I am bemused) What's the F? Incidentally, I, neither do others, tolerate wiki as posted, because, quite frankly, we cannot be arsed to do it.

[mercia]

Explanation please? (I am bemused) What's the F?

Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich collaborated on so-called FAE Sonata

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27F-A-E%27_Sonata

I really should have let you set a good question

[Nick Armstrong]

I, neither do others, tolerate wiki as posted, because, quite frankly, we cannot be arsed to do it.

*Frenchie 'language' robot activated!*

What do you mean about 'tolerating wiki as posted' Annakins?

[cloughie]

Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich collaborated on so-called FAE Sonata

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27F-A-E%27_Sonata

I really should have let you set a good question

What an excellent idea merc, Anna the G is yours!

[Anna]

*Frenchie 'language' robot activated!*

What do you mean about 'tolerating wiki as posted' Annakins?

I mean, it's no bluddy good just posting some wiki stuff and going on to the next letter without, I'm sorry (I am old fashioed) posting correct answers, chapter and verse, and stop being a smart-arse (and that's me on the naughty step along with Ammy)

[mercia]

I, neither do others, tolerate wiki as posted

sorry, you mean people find it difficult to click on links ?

oh very well



The F-A-E Sonata, a four-movement work for violin and piano, is a collaborative musical work by three composers: Robert Schumann, the young Johannes Brahms, and Schumann's pupil Albert Dietrich. It was composed in Düsseldorf in October 1853.

The sonata was Schumann's idea as a gift and tribute to violinist Joseph Joachim, whom the three composers had recently befriended. Joachim had adopted the Romantic German phrase "Frei aber einsam" ("free but lonely") as his personal motto. The composition's movements are all based on the musical notes F-A-E, the motto's initials, as a musical cryptogram.

Schumann assigned each movement to one of the composers. Dietrich wrote the substantial first movement in sonata form. Schumann followed with a short Romanze as the second movement. The Scherzo was by Brahms, who had already proven himself a master of this form in his E flat minor Scherzo for piano and the scherzi in his first two piano sonatas. Schumann provided the finale.

Schumann penned the following dedication on the original score: "F.A.E.: In Erwartung der Ankunft des verehrten und geliebten Freundes JOSEPH JOACHIM schrieben diese Sonate R.S., J.B., A.D." ("F.A.E.: In expectation of the arrival of their revered and beloved friend, Joseph Joachim, this sonata was written by R.S., J.B., A.D.").

The composers presented the score to Joachim on 28 October at a soirée in the Schumann household, which Bettina von Arnim and her daughter Gisela also attended. The composers challenged Joachim to determine who composed each movement. Joachim played the work that evening, with Clara Schumann at the piano. Joachim identified each movement's author with ease.

The complete work was not published during the composers' lifetimes. Schumann incorporated his two movements into his Violin Sonata No. 3. Joachim retained the original manuscript, from which he allowed only Brahms's Scherzo to be published in 1906, nearly ten years after Brahms's death. Whether Dietrich made any further use of his sonata-allegro is not known. The complete sonata was first published in 1935.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkSCU3vo-_U

[amateur51]

*Frenchie 'language' robot activated!*

What do you mean about 'tolerating wiki as posted' Annakins?

[amateur51]

I mean, it's no bluddy good just posting some wiki stuff and going on to the next letter without, I'm sorry (I am old fashioed) posting correct answers, chapter and verse, and stop being a smart-arse (and that's me on the naughty step along with Ammy)

**shoves up a bit to make room**