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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Or was it something he wrote: 'Observations d'un Imbecile (Moi)'??

    Je n'aime pas les plaisanteries, non plus que les choses s'en approchant. Que prouve une plaisanterie ?

    La Grande Histoire du Monde en relate fort peu de remarquables. Il est rare qu'une plaisanterie puise sa source aux gracieuses entrailles de la Beauté ; mais il est certain qu'elle sort bien souvent des aisselles infectes de la Méchanceté.

    Aussi, je ne plaisante jamais ; et ne puis-je que vous conseiller d'en faire autant

    Une des plaisanteries les plus sottes qui soient venues à la connaissance des hommes est, je crois, celle qui eut pour but le Déluge. Il est aisé de voir combien cette plaisanterie fut grossière et inhumaine, même à son époque ; aussi bien que l'on constate qu'elle n'a absolument rien prouvé, et que la Philosophie n'en a été augmentée d'aucune manière.

    Évidence : Par cela, il apparaît, sur les délicieux sommets de la Raison, que la Plaisanterie n'est qu'un Art inférieur qui ne se doit pas enseigner, qui ne se peut magnifier, quelque en soit son titre, quelque en soit la fin que l'on se propose.
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • subcontrabass
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 2780

      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      Or was it something he wrote: 'Observations d'un Imbecile (Moi)'??

      That's the third one.

      We look to Flay for a J.

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
        That's the third one.

        We look to Flay for a J.
        Phew!

        In Berlin one was a founding flautist, another was a Royal Academy department founder (did he fiddle it?).
        The third was a Polished Italian who made a brilliant hunter


        What's the J?
        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • subcontrabass
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 2780

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          Phew!

          In Berlin one was a founding flautist, another was a Royal Academy department founder (did he fiddle it?).
          The third was a Polished Italian who made a brilliant hunter


          What's the J?
          I have found three Joachims who seem to fit the bill.

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
            I have found three Joachims who seem to fit the bill.
            Pay up then!
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • subcontrabass
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 2780

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              Pay up then!
              Carl Joachim Andersen: flautist - one of the 54 founder members of the Berlin Philharmonic

              Joseph Joachim: violinist - founder of a department at the Berlin Royal Academy of Music

              Joachim (Gioacchino) Albertini: Italian composer - maître de chapelle to King Stanisław August Poniatowski of Poland and composer of the Intermezzo La cacciatrice brillante ("The Brilliant Huntress")

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              • Flay
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 5795

                Perfection, subby! You Killed my clue in quick time!
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • subcontrabass
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 2780

                  How about three musical Ks (also known for other things): one a flautist and the other two singers and multi-instrumentalists?

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                  • antongould
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8772

                    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                    How about three musical Ks (also known for other things): one a flautist and the other two singers and multi-instrumentalists?
                    I don't suppose it's Korb - probably not as I can only find 2.5 of them....

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                    • subcontrabass
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 2780

                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      I don't suppose it's Korb - probably not as I can only find 2.5 of them....
                      No. They are all composers better known for other activities.

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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8772

                        Kellers?

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                        • subcontrabass
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 2780

                          Originally posted by antongould View Post
                          Kellers?
                          No. They were all better known for their "day job" - the same in all cases allowing for different places and times.

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22107

                            Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                            No. They were all better known for their "day job" - the same in all cases allowing for different places and times.
                            King?

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                            • subcontrabass
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 2780

                              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                              King?
                              Names and numbers?

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                              • cloughie
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2011
                                • 22107

                                Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                                Names and numbers?
                                Valerie
                                Carole
                                Ben E

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