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  • hedgehog

    Tomcat's turf is however a much shorter title

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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26511

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      The Life And Opinions Of the Tomcat Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kappelmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper is a complex satirical novel by Prussian Romantic-era author E.T.A. Hoffmann

      and a very long title
      You are (it is superflous to confirm) upon very much the right track. Care to wander a bit further down it?
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • Quarky
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 2655

        Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
        Yes all round Mercia ahead on the tally, Jolly good!


        Can someone explain to me why it’s called coleslaw? (In particular, the idea of a side-salad to the main dish, I get.)

        Nr3 Messiaen Île de feu 1&2

        These pieces are to be found in the work Etudes de rythme. The most famous piece in this set of four is
        Modes de valeurs et d’intensités, which is often seen as the one which is to blame for Serial Music.
        Thanks hedgehog for drawing the Messiaen to my attention, and which was coincidentally sitting on a table next to my CD player. At least I now have a good excuse to play it!

        And I now have worked out how to google music associated with the South Pacific, while excluding South Pacific musical!

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        • mercia
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          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          feel free anyone to take over from me on the Kreisler theme

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          • Nick Armstrong
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            • Nov 2010
            • 26511

            Don't all rush at once...

            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • hedgehog

              Kreisler brings immediately to mind the violinist Fritz Kreisler.
              He composed a bit too, notably an operetta called "Apple Blossoms".

              No idea about the Hungarian homage bit.

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              • Nick Armstrong
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                • Nov 2010
                • 26511

                Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                Kreisler brings immediately to mind the violinist Fritz Kreisler.
                He composed a bit too, notably an operetta called "Apple Blossoms".
                Yup

                So:

                Kreisler in the E.T.A. Hoffmann novel
                Kreisler composer of "Apple Blossoms"

                The Hungarian hommage is to the composer among whose works the name of the former Kreisler is most familiar....
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Yup

                  So:

                  Kreisler in the E.T.A. Hoffmann novel
                  Kreisler composer of "Apple Blossoms"

                  The Hungarian hommage is to the composer among whose works the name of the former Kreisler is most familiar....
                  Are we talking Robert Schumann here? Wot wrote Kreisleriana?
                  Last edited by Guest; 14-02-13, 21:12. Reason: Kreisleriana

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                  • hedgehog

                    Aha, that will be Kurtág's Hommage a R. Schumann then. I thought the pirouettes were referring to a ballet, but no, the first movement of this piece is titled "Merkwurdige Pirouetten Des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler"

                    Yes? Otherwise it's getting spooky!

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                    • amateur51

                      Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                      Aha, that will be Kurtág's Hommage a R. Schumann then. I thought the pirouettes were referring to a ballet, but no, the first movement of this piece is titled "Merkwurdige Pirouetten Des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler"

                      Yes? Otherwise it's getting spooky!
                      Well done, Hodge

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26511

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        Are we talking Robert Schumann here? Wot wrote Kreisleriana?
                        That's the chap!
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • Nick Armstrong
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26511

                          Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                          Yes? Otherwise it's getting spooky!
                          This is Valentine's not Hallowe'en: yes indeed!


                          Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                          Kurtág's Hommage a R. Schumann.... the first movement of this piece is titled "Merkwurdige Pirouetten Des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler"
                          Quite so! Completing the picture:

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                          Kreisler in the E.T.A. Hoffmann novel
                          Kreisler composer of "Apple Blossoms"

                          Mercia saw it first but if he doesn't want the L, I imagine he wouldn't begrudge you it after some top quality solving
                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795

                            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                            Hodge
                            lovely name - much better than Hoggers!

                            But are they feminine enough for you?

                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • hedgehog

                              I have an L as it happens, but will wait 'til tomorrow on Mercia (have a few things to do now).

                              Hodge is fine btw

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                              • amateur51

                                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                                lovely name - much better than Hoggers!

                                But are they feminine enough for you?

                                You tried asking that of the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee?

                                http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...d=0CIcBEPwdMAo
                                Last edited by Guest; 14-02-13, 21:31. Reason: trypo

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