Alphabet associations - I

[hedgehog]

Tomcat's turf is however a much shorter title

[Nick Armstrong]

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?

[Quarky]

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!

[mercia]

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

[Nick Armstrong]

Don't all rush at once...

[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.

[Nick Armstrong]

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....

[amateur51]

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?

[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!

[amateur51]

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

[Nick Armstrong]

Are we talking Robert Schumann here? Wot wrote Kreisleriana?

That's the chap!

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes? Otherwise it's getting spooky!

This is Valentine's not Hallowe'en: yes indeed!

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:

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

[Flay]

Hodge

lovely name - much better than Hoggers!

But are they feminine enough for you?

[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

[amateur51]

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?

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