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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26506
    #13501
    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
    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???
    "...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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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920
      #13502
      Nice one Cyrill, nice one son

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26506
        #13503
        Originally posted by mercia View Post
        Nice one Cyrill, nice one son
        "...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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        • subcontrabass
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 2780
          #13504
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Fantasie. They all wrote one.

          Not what is on the card.

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920
            #13505
            how about Faust?
            Spohr & Busoni's operas and Kistler's Die Hexenkuche (yes I know there should be an umlaut)

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26506
              #13506
              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
              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....
              "...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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              • subcontrabass
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 2780
                #13507
                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                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.

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920
                  #13508
                  Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                  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

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                  • subcontrabass
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 2780
                    #13509
                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    ah, I didn't see that
                    It is not in Wikipedia.

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                    • Norfolk Born
                      #13510
                      Mouret's Les Amours de Ragonde (Act 2 'The Goblins')
                      Dvorak's Water Goblin plays tricks with teacups
                      Ruth Gipps's Goblin Market Cantata

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920
                        #13511
                        Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                        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

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                        • Norfolk Born
                          #13512
                          Which 'H' provided subject-matter for works by composers born in Birmingham, Aylesbury and Taunton (twice in the case of the last-mentioned)?

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795
                            #13513
                            You need to be hardy to work out all these clues
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26506
                              #13514
                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              You need to be hardy to work out all these clues
                              *Groan*

                              Sounds rather Obscure...
                              "...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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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795
                                #13515
                                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
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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