Alphabet associations - I

[cloughie]

sorry, I haven't been feeling very well today, just returned

a not very interesting U connecting

Liebestraume, a Black Knight, a (French) enchanted forest

sorry to hear you're Uncle Dick!

[Nick Armstrong]

sorry, I haven't been feeling very well today, just returned

a not very interesting U connecting

Liebestraume, a Black Knight, a (French) enchanted forest

Hope you are feeling better now...

It's been an odd week, not permitting any Associative thought really. TGIF...

I actually found this a rather interesting puzzle as it led me to someone who'd never really registered before: we are talking Ludwig Uhland are we not?

His poems inspired musical works of the same titles:

- Frank List's 'Liebesträume'
- Eddie Elgar's 'The Black Knight' Op 25
- Vinny d'Indy's 'La Forêt Enchantée' Op 8

[mercia]

indeed, Frank, Eddie & Vinny, Melchester Rovers's famous back three
and Ludwig in goal

very very good

[Nick Armstrong]

Thanks!

A V to link Berlioz, Purcell and the 15 year old Mozart

[Flay]

A V to link Berlioz, Purcell and the 15 year old Mozart

Perhaps it's Venus:

Mozart Ascanio in Alba where Venus sings "Al chiaror di que bei rai"

Henry Purcell: King Arthur where Venus sings: "Fairest isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasure and of love; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian grove."

Berlioz: Les pèlerins étant venus

[Nick Armstrong]

Berlioz: Les pèlerins étant venus

Actually, as well as your multilingual wordplay, saying "Venus" is very clever.... if wrong.

But not wholly irrelevant. Venus's offspring might lead you to the right V...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A V to link Berlioz, Purcell and the 15 year old Mozart

Nearly five hours on, and this puzzle is still causing trouble. I've 'phoned International Rescue to help, and Thunderbird 2 is just landing - I can see the pilot, wotsisname.

[Nick Armstrong]

Nearly five hours on, and this puzzle is still causing trouble. I've 'phoned International Rescue to help, and Thunderbird 2 is just landing - I can see the pilot, wotsisname.

Oblique, ferneyhiccups, very oblique. But bang on the money

Care to give it to us straight?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Care to give it to us straight?

Ooh! You are awful (etc )

Virgil;
Source of Berlioz Les Troyens and Dido & Aeneas;
St Virgil, the confessor saint for whose feast day the 15-year-old Mozza wrote his Solemn Vespers for the Confessor K339.

[Nick Armstrong]

Ooh! You are awful (etc )

Virgil;
Source of Berlioz Les Troyens and Dido & Aeneas;
St Virgil, the confessor saint for whose feast day the 15-year-old Mozza wrote his Solemn Vespers for the Confessor K339.

Not bad, honkytonks.

HB Les Troyens - ✔
HP Dido & Aeneas - ✔
But the Mozart answer isn't what's on the card, though tremendously learnéd
The answer on the card is something more direct, like the first two. Can you think of something more ... operatic?

[Nick Armstrong]

Clue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_kings_of_Alba_Longa

But I hope you are Working hard on a Wicked Wiki W, Mr Liebte

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Not bad, honkytonks.

Miss!

The answer on the card is something more direct, like the first two. Can you think of something more ... operatic?

WAM was 15 in 1771 (and the first few weeks of 1772) - so, Ascanio in Alba? Can't find a Virgil connection there. Mitridate the Top Bridge Player?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

<doh> Cross-post: didn't notice anywhere that Ascanius was the son of Aeneas!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Moving on:

This W was a legendary composer of the modern school who performed with Rubinstein.

[Flay]

<doh> Cross-post: didn't notice anywhere that Ascanius was the son of Aeneas!

But I've been there ...