Alphabet associations - I

[vinteuil]

The lexicographers are better known for their earlier work collecting (and publishing) folk tales.

ahh, Grimm, of course!

[Anna]

Sorry Anna...a bit too much alliteration on my part. Like you I am struggling with K.

Alliteration between 1791 and 1916?

Doncha just love him!! Bless.

[rubbernecker]

Well, I've now discovered a jazz trumpeter called Jim Bohm?

EDIT ...or should it be Jim Grim? I'm afraid I've now lost the plot!

[subcontrabass]

well - Karl Barth is quite important as a theologian; scratching my head for lexicographers - Liddel and Scott weren't Karls, not sure about Funk or Wagnall...

So the musician was Karl-Heinrich Barth (pianist and teacher).

[subcontrabass]

ahh, Grimm, of course!

Well done. The Grimm brothers' major academic work was the initiation of the major dictionary of the German language.

Karl Grimm was the trumpeter and instrument maker.


So I think that leaves rubbernecker to take us on to (or down to) L

[vinteuil]

(2) another musician who share most of his name with a better known theologian;

?

Carl Maria v Weber ; Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber, the sociological philosopher of the protestant work ethic?

[Nick Armstrong]

off ITV's Bullseye

Super, smashing, great

[rubbernecker]

off ITV's Bullseye

I am so out of touch...

L on its way.

[Don Petter]

I have not been away. I just found many of the more cryptic clues beyond me and others outside my range of musical interest/experience.

Ditto!

[Anna]

Super, smashing, great

Is it to do with Corrie? Theology. Is that why you are all glued to it?

[rubbernecker]

OK chaps and chapesses, deep breath, hands clasped, eyes down, here it is:
"What L connects a silent composer, a self-taught far-eastern composer and a Christ Church undergraduate composer?"

[Tapiola]

Is it Ligeti, rubbers?

[subcontrabass]

OK chaps and chapesses, deep breath, hands clasped, eyes down, here it is:
"What L connects a silent composer, a self-taught far-eastern composer and a Christ Church undergraduate composer?"

Litany

1 Do not know.

2 Takemitsu

3 Walton (actually composed in 1916 when he was still a schoolboy, before he became an undergraduate).

[rubbernecker]

Litany

1 Do not know.

2 Takemitsu

3 Walton (actually composed in 1916 when he was still a schoolboy, before he became an undergraduate).

that was quick, scb (note to self: must make them more cryptic )

1) was actually John Cage's Litany for the Whale. I also thought about using Arvo Part, but didn't in the end.

There is obviously some debate about when Walton wrote A Litany which was his first published work. My source, which was a CD sleeve note, said it was during his first year at Oxford, aged 16.

On to you for M, scb

[rubbernecker]

silent for 4'33"?

Yes, well done Hercule. You earn an honourable mention!