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John W
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« Reply #3390 on: 16:26:58, 28-12-2007 »

Well done strina, I thought it was too early to look for that theme  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #3391 on: 16:34:58, 28-12-2007 »

I had all sorts of delightfully obscure composers on my reserve list - Peter Ritter, Valentin Dretzel, Georg Caspar Schürmann, Othon-Joseph Vandenbroek, Árni Björnsson, Florence Ashton Marshall, Kosaku Yamada - who probably would have been no help whatsoever!   Smiley

And if I'm reading the abbreviations correctly, it looks like Carl Maria von Weber wrote a New Year’s greeting for Gänsbacher: Prost Neujahr! - a canon for 34 solo voices and 74 F#-trumpets!  Eeek!

Happy 29th-of-December-eve to all!



(what an odd selection - I know which one I'd nick if given the chance...)
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« Reply #3392 on: 17:07:37, 28-12-2007 »

Ok, if they have the music some folks might listen to this lot around New Year....

Beethoven
Mendelssohn
Schostakovich
Schumann
Grainger
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« Reply #3393 on: 17:39:04, 28-12-2007 »

Now, Beethoven and Schumann both wrote variations on Auld Lang Syne (the latter, I think, in his Kinderszenen).

More obscurely, Franz Waxman also wrote variations on Auld Lang Syne, which include a Homage to Shostakovich.  A bit tangential, but worth a try ...

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« Reply #3394 on: 18:04:15, 28-12-2007 »

More or less got it pw!  I was thinking of another Burns song arranged by Schumann (in fact I see he did several songs) so you have the connection

Beethoven - Auld Land Syne
Mendelssohn -
Schostakovich -
Schumann -
Grainger -
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« Reply #3395 on: 09:57:32, 29-12-2007 »

Not an exhaustive list by any means...Burns seems to have inspired several composers many times!

Beethoven - Auld Lang Syne WoO. 156.. also:
Behold, my love, how green the groves, op. 108
O how can I be blythe and glad, op. 108
The lovely lass of Inverness, op. 108
O Mary, at thy window be, op. 108
In vain to this desert my fate I deplore, WoO. 152
Musing on the roaring ocean, WoO. 152
I dream'd I lay where flow'rs were springing, WoO. 153
Once more I hail thee, WoO. 152
Helpless woman, WoO. 155
Constancy, WoO. 155
Duncan Gray, WoO. 156
Polly Stewart, WoO. 156
Highland Harry, WoO. 156
Highlander's Lament, WoO. 157
From thee, Eliza, I must go, WoO. 158c

Mendelssohn - 'O säh' ich auf der Haide dort' Volkslied, op. 63 no. 5

Robert Schumann - Fünf Lieder nach Robert Burns für gemischten Chor, op. 55: 1. Das Hochlandmädchen  2. Zahnweh  3. Mich zieht es nach dem Dörfchen hin 4. Die alte gute Zeit 5. Hochlandbursch
Myrten, op. 25
 no. 4. Jemand
 no. 10. Die Hochländer-Witwe
 no. 13. Hochländers Abschied
 no. 14. Hochländisches Wiegenlied
 no. 19. Hauptmanns Weib
 no. 20. Weit, weit
 no. 22. Niemand
 no. 23. Im Westen
Bänkelsänger Willie, op. 146 no. 2
Liebhabers Ständchen & Unterm Fenster op.34
John Anderson (Romanzen und Balladen III, Op 145)
Dem roten Röslein gleicht mein Lieb (Op 27)
or Clara Schumann - Am Strande 'Traurig schau ich von der Klippe' based on Musing on the roaring ocean

Shostakovich - British & American Folksongs: Comin' Thro' the Rye; John Anderson, My Jo;
Six Romances on Verses by Raleigh, Burns and Shakespeare, Op. 62/140: O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast; Jenny

Grainger - Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon

Phew....time for a lie down!  Smiley
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« Reply #3396 on: 10:21:20, 29-12-2007 »

IGI,

I think that completes this NMC of composers writing/arranging for works by Robert Burns  Smiley

I could have added Joseph Haydn, I knew he had written some music for Burns text and only just tracked down this:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev//2003/Feb03/Haydn_scots.htm

Catherine Bott appears to have trouble with the language!  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #3397 on: 10:35:57, 30-12-2007 »

Morning all!

Try connecting these four composers:

Korngold
Ravel
Bernstein
Prokofiev
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« Reply #3398 on: 10:41:03, 30-12-2007 »

Hmmm. They all wrote piano concertos for left hand - apart from Bernstein who was left-handed? 
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« Reply #3399 on: 10:46:53, 30-12-2007 »

Nice try, autoharp! I hadn't realised how long the list of left-handed piano concertos was - quite a line-up. I wonder if any weren't commissioned by Wittgenstein?
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« Reply #3400 on: 10:54:38, 30-12-2007 »

Janacek Capriccio was commissioned by Otakar Hollman.
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« Reply #3401 on: 17:26:46, 30-12-2007 »

Burns seems to have inspired several composers many times!

Either that, or they did it for the money. Even Beethoven had to eat.
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« Reply #3402 on: 18:38:06, 30-12-2007 »

Let's add another composer, then.

Korngold
Ravel
Bernstein
Prokofiev
Tomlinson
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« Reply #3403 on: 20:49:07, 30-12-2007 »

Is it anything to do with pantomimes?

Prokofiev - Cinderella
Ravel - Mother Goose
Tomlinson - Aladdin
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« Reply #3404 on: 21:29:55, 30-12-2007 »

Is it anything to do with pantomimes?

Oh, no it isn't!  

   Oh, yes it is!
                                                    Oh, no it isn't!
                                                                                                                                               Oh, yes it is!  

Korngold
Ravel – Mother Goose
Bernstein
Prokofiev - Cinderella
Tomlinson - Aladdin

Now, where are the others?!
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