Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

So - last element, pleasant forging = Harmonious Blacksmith as in Handel, Suite No.5, HWV 430: IV. Air & Variations

Hampshire = "Song of the Blacksmith", one of Holst's 6 Choral Folk Songs, Op. 36b: "Hampshire Folk-song: The Song of the Blacksmith" which is also the third movement of hisSecond Suite in F for Military Band (Op. 28, No. 2)

Sussex = Butterworth's "11 Folk Songs from Sussex: No. 2. A blacksmith courted me"

Oi reckon the answer be blacksmith then, squoire !!

Absolutely, my dear man. Jolly good show. Now have this tuppence and let's C what you can Concoct...

[Nick Armstrong]

Here's to France, Spain, Piedmont and the Empire! Hurrah!

Which C?

[Flay]

Here's to France, Spain, Piedmont and the Empire! Hurrah!

Which C?

Cripes! I dunno. The "Hurrah" is not emboldened. Is this significant? Which Empire? http://www.empirecinemas.co.uk/

[amateur51]

Cripes! I dunno. The "Hurrah" is not emboldened. Is this significant? Which Empire? http://www.empirecinemas.co.uk/

[Nick Armstrong]

The "Hurrah" is not emboldened. Is this significant?

You can ignore my expostulation for the purposes of the puzzle.

[vinteuil]

Which C?

F, I suspect.

[Nick Armstrong]

F, I suspect.

Come along, don't beat about the buisson, you obviously know the answer - then you can dazzle us...

[Nick Armstrong]

The C is a surname. As vinrouge has impishly hinted, the first name starts with F....

[Flay]

The C is a surname. As vinrouge has impishly hinted, the first name starts with F....

FC. Maybe it's a footballer?

[Nick Armstrong]

FC. Maybe it's a footballer?

I can find no footballer (any rules) bearing this name.

[Flay]

I can find no footballer (any rules) bearing this name.

O you hard heart, you cruèl man of Law,
Knew you not Vinney? Many a time and oft
Have you sat up with iPads and desktops,
To Google and Windows, yea, with Firefox,
Your laptops in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day with patient expectation
To see great Vinney pass the clues he's known.
And when you saw his answer but appear,
Have you not made an universal shout
That ff trembled underneath her screen
To hear the replication of your sounds
Made in her Message Board?

[vinteuil]

... a prize jar of Frank Cooper's 1726 inter-national marmalade to Flay !

[Flay]

... a prize jar of Frank Cooper's 1726 inter-national marmalade to Flay !

You are so kind, Vinney. But I give up.

I've been through lists of conductors and composers and other candidates. I capitulate. Spill the beans please....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've been through lists of conductors and composers and other candidates. I capitulate. Spill the beans please....

The most obvious composer with the initials "FC" of whom I know is Francois Couperin.

<doh> vinty's "Frank Cooper"!! I should've got it just like that!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

<doh><doh> and thrice <doh>

Francois Couperin: Les Nations (1726); La francaise, L'espagnole; La piemontaise and L'imperiale.