Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

OK - I think it's Jerusalem (Parry, Jez Butterworth's hit play, and perhaps Siegfried Jerusalem?)

Bravo norfs! I can go out with a bang!!

[Norfolk Born]

Which 'K' links premieres in Milan, Salzburg, Salzburg (again) and Munich in a little over 10 years?

[Nick Armstrong]

Crikey!

I hear that a young hero had a big hit, not on an anvil as you might expect nor with the Parry but with Butterworth in America recently - how does a J connect them?

Dammit, just out of a meeting so I couldn't have a crack at that amateur special! Very clever with the Butterworth misdirection, Ams!!! I'd have been chasing down the banks of green willow like nobody's business!

Jez B's play is one of the best things I ever saw in a theatre...

[Flay]

Which 'K' links premieres in Milan, Salzburg, Salzburg (again) and Munich in a little over 10 years?

There could be thousands

[Flay]

<< Mahler wrote his “Symphony of a Thousand” in a white heat of inspiration during the summer of 1906, and its 1910 premiere in Munich proved the greatest success of his career >>

Exhausted now. Any other offers? (K = 1000)

[mercia]

brilliant thinking Mr Flay, I'm just wondering how one work can have two premieres in the same city

[Flay]

PremiereS. It can be 4 different works surely? I just can't find them - yet.

[Flay]

Unless K = Mozart???

[Flay]

La finta semplice first performed at the court of Palace of the Archbishop, Salzburg, 1 May 1769.

Ascanio in Alba, KV 111 - Mozart was 15 years old when this opera was first performed in Milan at the Teatro Regio Ducal on October 17, 1771

Idomeneo was first performed in Munich on 29 January 1781

Il sogno di Scipione, K. 126 was given a private performance in the Archbishop's Palace in Salzburg on 1 May 1772,

[mercia]

excellent work Mr Flay ...................... I hope you're right

[Norfolk Born]

Right composer, wrong works!

[Flay]

How about: Mozart Mass in Cm had its premiere in Salzburg on 26 October 1783?

Any other offers, folks? I've got friends coming round trying to work out where to go for New Year (everything's booked up!)

[Norfolk Born]

Try starting in 1770 and working forward...

[mercia]

La finta giardiniera, Munich 1775
Lucio Silla, Milan 1772 or Ascanio in Alba, Milan 1771
La finta semplice, Salzburg 1769
Apollo et Hyacinthus, Salzburg 1767
Il sogno di Scipione, Salzburg 1772

[Norfolk Born]

None of the above
Milan 1770
Salzburg 1775, 1779-1780 (first complete performances)
Munich 1781