Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte

not [I assume] to be confused with Napoleon Solo

[mercia]

so who is the successor to Sibelius ? and why ?

[Nick Armstrong]

An emergency consignment of coleslaw is required I think...

[Flay]

so who is the successor to Sibelius ? and why ?

See #31143. He followed in the footsteps, and studied and taught at the Sibelius Academy.

So it was Rasputin:

Boney M (with apologies to vinny)
Nicholas Nabokov's opera Rasputin's End (libretto by Stephen Spender)
Einojuhani Rautavaara's opera Rasputin

Awaiting ammy's Slammy when he is finished Snoozing

[amateur51]

not [I assume] to be confused with Napoleon Solo

Channel Five, do you read me?

[amateur51]

See #31143. He followed in the footsteps, and studied and taught at the Sibelius Academy.

So it was Rasputin:

Boney M (with apologies to vinny)
Nicholas Nabokov's opera Rasputin's End (libretto by Stephen Spender)
Einojuhani Rautavaara's opera Rasputin

Awaiting ammy's Slammy when he is finished Snoozing

I'll apply my neurone directly

[amateur51]

Ahem!

What S had a winning relationship with Mendelssohn, taught in a flattened European city and studied with someone who sounded like he might have been related to a South American president who achieved something that even Evita did not?

[amateur51]

OK a little help perhaps .....

Of what country was Evita a prominent politician?

And what is the family name of the current president of that country?

This will give you the name of one of S's teachers

[Flay]

OK a little help perhaps .....

Thanks, I was just about to ask if you could be a little more specific about which part of Europe...

[amateur51]

Thanks, I was just about to ask if you could be a little more specific about which part of Europe...

Yay Flay! LIFE!

Shout out if you need another clue - I gotta million of them!

[Flay]

Yay Flay! LIFE!

Shout out if you need another clue - I gotta million of them!

Well it's life, ammy, but not as we know it....

Hmm - Argentina's president is Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner which suggests Theodor Kirchner. Maybe it's a Schumann?

Give me another 5 hours...

[amateur51]

Well it's life, ammy, but not as we know it....

Hmm - Argentina's president is Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner which suggests Theodor Kirchner. Maybe it's a Schumann?

Give me another 5 hours...

Dat's him- this S studied with him.

bonus clue - this S is Anglo-German, not that you'd know from his name

[amateur51]

Time for bed, but a clue before I go ....

This S sounds like he should be found in Nottingham

[Flay]

The flattened city must be Dresden.

Could it be Schneider?

[mercia]

wiki says that J G Schneider junior (1789-1864) had "artistic connections" to Mendelssohn, Liszt and Schumann - but that's all I can find

afterthought - by rights Shoe-man should be found in Nottingham I suppose

cobblers !!! - Bob Schumann wasn't Anglo-German

<doh> getting confused - I now realise we are after the winner of the 1889 Mendelssohn Scholarship or is it called Mendelssohn Prize ? - more confusion


(EDIT - was my thought that Nottingham is a centre of shoe-manufacturing a complete aberration ?? )