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[mercia]

Polyeucte is an overture composed by Paul Dukas in 1891 for the tragedy of the same name by Pierre Corneille, and an opera written by Gounod

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Last puzzle. Werner Herzog. The Enigma of Kasper Hauser.

Just thought I'd mention, brilliant. Anyone know it? Thats all. He is my fave director.

Yes-ish: it must be thirty years since I last saw it. Herzog comes very high in my "list", too.

[amateur51]

Cheers mercs! Ok:

What Q links an insurance executive whose father was a band-leader, a young criminal, and three musical pieces written by a German/Englishman in Rome?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cheers mercs! Ok:

What Q links an insurance executive whose father was a band-leader

This - unless there is a remarkable coincidence! - must be Charles (and George) Ives. But Q?

[amateur51]

This - unless there is a remarkable coincidence! - must be Charles (and George) Ives. But Q?

Correcto in the first part, ferney!

[amateur51]

Advance warning - I'll be heading off to Bedfordshire at about 22:00 - get those answers in pronto!

[antongould]

Quickstep?

[amateur51]

Quickstep?

Afraid not anton

[antongould]

Gutted!

[mercia]

quartertone ?

[amateur51]

quartertone ?

Oh dear, tougher than I thought - not quartertone mercs

What German/English composers do you know? And what did the most famous one write in Rome in 1707? There are three of them

[cloughie]

Advance warning - I'll be heading off to Bedfordshire at about 22:00 - get those answers in pronto!

Why are you seeking Nadine?

[mercia]

great question this, it's making me think

and I tink Handel was in Rome in 1707

[cloughie]

great question this, it's making me think

and I tink Handel was in Rome in 1707

...and he wrote pieces staring with Qual

....Charles Ives wrote something call Quarter tone

...and a quarter od criminals are young!

...all this gets me no link whatsoever.

[amateur51]

Why are you seeking Nadine?

for me to know