Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

An F to link Spohr, Busoni and Kistler. I shall return in the morning.

Fantasie. They all wrote one.

http://petruccilibrary.org/wiki/File:TN-Kistler,_Cyrill._Große_Fantasie_für_Konzertharmonium,_Op.77.jpg

(Who he?? Ed.)

PS Simon - did you ever think your little thread would go on to smash through the quarter-million views barrier???

[mercia]

Nice one Cyrill, nice one son

[Nick Armstrong]

Nice one Cyrill, nice one son

[subcontrabass]

Fantasie. They all wrote one.

Not what is on the card.

[mercia]

how about Faust?
Spohr & Busoni's operas and Kistler's Die Hexenkuche (yes I know there should be an umlaut)

[Nick Armstrong]

Not what is on the card.

But a correct answer nonetheless

Shall have to be offline now, till the pm. Good thing I don't have to superintend a G....

[subcontrabass]

how about Faust?
Spohr & Busoni's operas and Kistler's Die Hexenkuche (yes I know there should be an umlaut)

Kistler also wrote an opera: Faust I. Teil in 1905.

Go for it, mercia.

[mercia]

Kistler also wrote an opera: Faust I. Teil in 1905.

ah, I didn't see that

a G connecting

Mouret's loves, Ruth's market and Antonin's teacup trapper

[subcontrabass]

ah, I didn't see that

It is not in Wikipedia.

[Norfolk Born]

Mouret's Les Amours de Ragonde (Act 2 'The Goblins')
Dvorak's Water Goblin plays tricks with teacups
Ruth Gipps's Goblin Market Cantata

[mercia]

Mouret's Les Amours de Ragonde (Act 2 'The Goblins')
Dvorak's Water Goblin plays tricks with teacups
Ruth Gipps's Goblin Market Cantata

well done NB, it must be your turn

[Norfolk Born]

Which 'H' provided subject-matter for works by composers born in Birmingham, Aylesbury and Taunton (twice in the case of the last-mentioned)?

[Flay]

You need to be hardy to work out all these clues

[Nick Armstrong]

You need to be hardy to work out all these clues

*Groan*

Sounds rather Obscure...

[Flay]

Rutland Boughton (23 January 1878 – 25 January 1960) was an English composer (born in Aylesbury) who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music. A pupil of Charles Villiers Stanford... his opera The Queen of Cornwall (1924) was based on Thomas Hardy's play