Alphabet associations - I

[BetweenTheStaves]

All wrote something with Poppea.

[Nick Armstrong]

BtS Cherubini is your only red herring in the composer list. It's not about Protestantism; and if they did write something about Poppea, that's not what I was thinking of... but I don't think Brahms did, did he?

[BetweenTheStaves]

But Mendelsohn did! Actually breathed a sigh of relief that I don't have to set Q...but hopefully have given enough leads for someone else to claim the honours

[rubbernecker]

BtS Cherubini is your only red herring in the composer list.

Might we be talking Lully instead?

[BetweenTheStaves]

They all smoked a pipe? Played the Piano? Ate pasta? No idea!

[Pianorak]

How dare you, young man!

Yeah - bit of a nerve, I know!

[Anna]

Did they all set the same Psalm?

[Pianorak]

P - Hmmm, something to do with pen and/or paper (rather than vellum)?
Anna: Wel - enillodd Cymru - gwen enfawr 'ma

[Nick Armstrong]

Lully is the last composer referred to in the question, indeed Rubbers. Other than that you're cold so far I'm afraid. Shall I wait a while before lending further assistance?

[Anna]

Would it be passacaglias?

[Nick Armstrong]

Would it be passacaglias?

Anna: brilliant. Hole in one. As is customary: would you care to elaborate?

I hesitated about making the question easier - and this would have been my 'give-away' clue - by giving two other individuals (among the 'others') namely sons of Eisenach and Lowestoft: Bach's organ Passacaglias and the Passacaglia from Britten's 'Grimes' being possibly the most obvious examples...

[BetweenTheStaves]

Well done, Anna. Excellent question, Caliban, frustrating but still excellent.

[Tapiola]

Baiting the moderators, taps? (I wonder what language we're allowed to get away with here )

It's all gone a bit Saturday night in here.

Apologies for the language - it was a charming exhortation I witnessed between the local "intelligentsia" last night, on the way back from buying "a pint of milk".

[Anna]

Anna: brilliant. Hole in one. As is customary: would you care to elaborate?

Would I care to elaborate? Well, not really, it was a pure guess!! There is Handel's Harpsichord Suite, Brahms 4th, Mendelshom's C Minor for Organ and Lully's Armide which have passacaglias but I don't know if those are the ones you are looking for? I think probably not, so maybe you can elaborate?

[Norfolk Born]

Well done, Anna. Excellent question, Caliban, frustrating but still excellent.

Agreed. And it's not every day that one gets to find Eisenach and Lowestoft in the same sentence!