Alphabet associations - I

[Resurrection Man]

When you say early 19th...do you mean they were born then?

And is the capital D significant? As in a work with that in the title rather than someone who was demented?

[Flay]

When you say early 19th...do you mean they were born then?

And is the capital D significant? As in a work with that in the title rather than someone who was demented?

Born and died in the first half of that century.

The capital D is significant. Yes, it relates to another work by the composer (this one is not the 19th century composer. There are 3 works of the same name by 3 different composers)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

and a third while listening to the birds of the forest

Messiaen? Reveil des Oiseaux?

[Flay]

Messiaen? Reveil des Oiseaux?

No, not this time. It relates to the first lines of the relevant work. But the nationality of the composer is correct.

[Flay]

Born and died in the first half of that century.

And is extremely well known.

[mercia]

wikipedia says Mendelssohn (1809-47) hated Hugo's Ruy Blas

Chabrier - Serenade de Ruy Blas - l'oiseau le plus tendre ???? - birds imitated in piano writing ??

EDIT - La Chanson des Lavandieres

À quoi bon entendre
Les oiseaux des bois?
L'oiseau le plus tendre
Chante dans ta voix.

Filippo Marchetti - La demente (1856) - Ruy Blas (1869)

phew !!! - I needed the additional clues before I could get started on that

[Flay]

well done, mercia! All three are correct.

Stunning performance!

[mercia]

S

revolutionary goings-on involving the daughter of Iardanus, a Norwegian sea captain, dismembered feet and a room in Transylvania

[amateur51]

S

revolutionary goings-on involving the daughter of Iardanus, a Norwegian sea captain, dismembered feet and a room in Transylvania

The daughter of Iardanus was Omphale; Saint-Saens wrote Le Rouet d'Omphale, or The Spinning Wheel Of Omphale, the rouet being a spinning wheel that the queen and her maidens used hence revolutionary goings on?

[mercia]

Spinning

spinning is indeed the word - revolutionary .... that was clever wasn't it

one down, three to go

[Nick Armstrong]

that was clever wasn't it

[amateur51]

Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman has a character called Darland who is a Norwegian sea capitain and there is a spinning chorus

[amateur51]

The Transylvanian Spinning Room by Zoltan Kodaly.

Not keen on exploring dismembered feet, thanking you

[mercia]

there is a spinning chorus

which goes on in Daland's house, apparently
Kodaly

the feet belong to Dornicka

[amateur51]

which goes on in Daland's house, apparently
Kodaly

the feet belong to Dornicka

I wonder who Dornika is

Have I got this one down to a T?