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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    as we all know, Wolfgang visited the Sistine Chapel
    Quick, put me out of my misery! (Roughly translated...)
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Allegri's Psalm 51, Miserere mei Deus for two choirs, one of four, one of five voices, famously written down from memory by the 14-year old Wolfgang Amadeus and at some stage handed over to Arne's pupil Charles Burney to subsequently publish in England.

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      • Resurrection Man

        Well done, Mercs

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          B

          Emily Elphinstone, Mr Marrast, the end of a Trilogy

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26540

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            Quick, put me out of my misery! (Roughly translated...)
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • Northender

              Anything to do with a former PM?

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              • Resurrection Man

                Berlioz?

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Originally posted by Northender View Post
                  Anything to do with a former PM?
                  not as far as I know
                  the answer is not Blair [if that's what you were thinking]

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
                    Berlioz?
                    'fraid not

                    have you discovered who Emily Elphinstone was ?
                    or Mr Marrast ?

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                    • Northender

                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      not as far as I know
                      the answer is not Blair [if that's what you were thinking]
                      No, I was thinking Balfour (hence Gardiner?), merely because Google led me to an EE family tree in which the name crops up.

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        Emily Elphinstone
                        not her full name [as you may have discovered]

                        she had a piece dedicated to her

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          Mr Marrast was a conductor

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            Mr Marrast was a conductor
                            Not Armand Marrast who revised the libretto for Rossini's Guillaume Tell? (I just popped along for a lunchtime wild goose chase )
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • Flay
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 5795

                              And not the lovely-looking Irish actress Emily Elphinstone? Shame!

                              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                                Not Armand Marrast
                                'fraid not

                                mine was a Walther

                                am I causing headaches ?? [that's not a clue]

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