Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

You're very kind, Ammy, but I was way off the full answer (as I say, I was hunting for Owls and Pussycats, and Stravinsky and I don't know what!)

I think you should take the P - who knows? You might end up having to do the Q!

For what it's worth, I reckon is time for an amateur to take the P... no change there, then!

Come on ammy, you know you want a P really... (Must be the Waggle Dance!)

(That's enough P jokes. Ed.)

[amateur51]

Well that's very kind of y'all ...

What P was known in his lifetime as “heir apparent”, “crown prince” and “Chopin of the North”; was a pupil of a pupil of Liszt; held a professorship in USA; and his only opera was premiered in 1938?

[Nick Armstrong]

Well that's very kind of y'all ...

What P was known in his lifetime as “heir apparent”, “crown prince” and “Chopin of the North”; was a pupil of a pupil of Liszt; held a professorship in USA; and his only opera was premiered in 1938?

Oh now I've heard that "Chopin of the North" phrase...

If only I could remember who it was about!

[cloughie]

Paderewski

[amateur51]

Paderewski

Afraid not, cloughie

[vinteuil]

might it be Palmgren - vied with Grieg for the title Chopin of the North...

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_Palmgren

... and I think wrote an opera:

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hjort

[amateur51]

might it be Palmgren - vied with Grieg for the title chopin of the North...

Spot on, vints! His other nickname's referred to Sibelius of course

[cloughie]

Grieg was the Chopin of the North, sadly no P there.

[subcontrabass]

Grieg was the Chopin of the North, sadly no P there.

Try scrolling down the results of a Google search.

[vinteuil]

... a Quick an' easy one, then -

Why do Zelenka, Couperin, Charpentier and the rest of them begin their alphabets with a Q ?

[amateur51]

Grieg was the Chopin of the North, sadly no P there.

Both Grieg and Palmgren were known s "Chopin of the North" apparently cloughie

We now await vints' choice of Q or R

[vinteuil]

We now await vints' choice of Q ...

... see #14035

[Don Petter]

Why do Zelenka, Couperin, Charpentier and the rest of them begin their alphabets with a Q ?

For Zelenka, not enough Czech-outs open?

[vinteuil]

For Zelenka, not enough Czech-outs open?

ho! ho!! HO!!!

[mercia]

Why do Zelenka, Couperin, Charpentier and the rest of them begin their alphabets with a Q ?

anything vaguely to do with their settings of Tenebrae ?