Classical Quiz
Posted by: John Schmidt on 17 October 2000
Woodface is onto a good idea with his music quiz. As that thread is getting a bit long, and leaning mostly towards rock and popular music, perhaps we can start a more classical thread. Judging from the threads on Mahler and Schubert, there's no lack of knowledge. As with the other quiz, if you answer correctly, you can pose the next question. Here's a starter:
In the 1950's Emil Gilels was first allowed out of the Soviet Union to tour. This was the first opportunity for many in the West to hear a performer of the "Russian Piano School", and he played to universal acclaim. Gilels was somewhat overwhelmed, and was heard to say "If you think I'm good, wait until you hear __________" To which other Russian pianist was he referring?
John Schmidt
"95% of everything is crud" - Theodore Sturgeon
Posted on: 05 January 2001 by Former member
Okay, here's another question about music with literary associations (since the last one was so spectacularly successful).
Three works all bear the same name. Two are musical works. One is a short story. The first musical work was written in the early nineteenth century. The short story was written in the late nineteenth century, and the musical work is central to the story, and has the same title. The second musical work was based on the short story, and again has the same name (although it is a different musical genre).
Identify the name which these two musical works and the short story all bear.
Ross
Posted on: 05 January 2001 by Former member
could it be - Russians.
Giuseppe.
Posted on: 05 January 2001 by Former member
Giuseppe,
There is a Russian connection with one of the works. Otherwise, that is not correct.
Ross
Posted on: 06 January 2001 by Former member
The Kreutzer sonata ?
Posted on: 06 January 2001 by Former member
Well done, Omer!
To complete the answer, the Kreutzer Sonata was of course originally by Beethoven. Tolstoy used it as a plot device in his story of the same name (and which, incidentally, is well worth reading). Janacek then produced a string quartet based on the short story, which he also called the "Kreutzer Sonata", even though it wasn't a sonata, just to be confusing.
Your question.
Ross
Posted on: 07 January 2001 by Former member
Ross,
I remembered the Beethoven and the Tolstoy part, but I just couldn't figure the last piece. Damn this sclerosis, that Janacek quartet, along with his second (intimate letters) is perhaps my all-time favourite piece !
My question : who's that bloke (forgive the url use, yahoo won't let me link direct the image - please choose the lowest item on that page)
Click here to fulfill your fantasies
Omer
[This message was edited by Omer Shibolet on SUNDAY 07 January 2001 at 15:02.]
Posted on: 07 January 2001 by Former member
Omer.
That's J.S. Bach (and how you post the pic here ;-).
Vuk.
Posted on: 07 January 2001 by Former member
Vuk,
You are right, I thought this portrait is rather unknown, I mainly saw him older and chubbier.
Damn Yahoo, they once allowed direct "hosting" to their briefcase. Forgive the dumb question, but where do you put the photos ???
PS, when you get a faster modem you MUST download the soccer mpg on my yahoo briefcase, it's brilliant.
Over to you.
Omer
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
Who is this dude in my living room?
Vuk.
P.S. Omer, for displaying a picture, you use <img>http://etc.jpg</img> to point to it, but replace "<" and ">" with "[" and "]".
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
Mozart ??
PS, yes, that's what the "image" macro yields, problem is that using my current yahoo location to put the images there, is not always working (yahoo won't allow direct hosting), so I wondered where everybody else puts their images.
Omer.
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
Johann Sebastian ?
My other favourite wig-wearer would be Handel, but I'm guessing that anyone who likes "Mozart and the other three (Beethoven, Bach, Wagner)" would have Bach on his wall.
Close?
Jonathan
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
Sorry Omer,
This is WAM (or me and Omer when we were 18):
BTW--I still don't think I understand your picture question.
Jonathan,
It's not Bach, but your favourite wig-wearer, so go ahead.
Vuk.
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
Which music lover and amateur musican wrote the following (probable) beginning of the "sense of rhythm" rubbish...
quote:
In music they [blacks] are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for tune and time, and they have been found capable of imagining a small catch. Whether they will be equal to the composition of a more extensive run of melody, or of complicated harmony, is yet to be proved.
And for what (other than his various commentaries on music) was he more famous?
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
Thomas Jefferson said it. Otherwise famous for inter-racial copulation and helping lay the constitutional foundation for an evil capitalist empire over 200 years ago.
Vuk.
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
Vuk,
I know how to use the macro/html thing to insert the image.
The point is that even now, at work, I still cannot see my Bach image that you posted, because Yahoo won't let it (the image resides in my yahoo "briefcase") .
So I was wondering where everybody places their images on the web for the infopop server to access.
Cheers,
Omer.
PS, do you who's Yorgos Panayiotou ?
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
I thought that might get a couple of wrong uns' first.It was all that talk of wigs that reminded me of it. And a contemporary of Handel (just)
Your turn maestro...
Jonathan
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
"At my place, there is a torture chamber, a secret garden and a room that Arie Gur would be able to fill up quite nicely. Who am I?"
Vuk.
P.S. Omer, I am able to view the Bach pic. Very odd. I post my pictures to several places, like my home page (which is getting filled up and the Mana forum). There is also the trick of loading it up here as an attchment, then editing the message to show the pic directly, once you find out what the URL is.
P.P.S. The famous Greek you are referring to is the guy on the left.
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
... the Devil / Lord of Hades presiding over "The Hell of Ex-Wives"
(Sorry Arie)
Jonathan
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
Arie's hint led me to bluebeard (after Don Juan).
I was also able to see the image yesterday at my home, but it could be due to cache usage. using the attachment as a url is an acceptable solution, thanx !
Posted on: 08 January 2001 by Former member
Jonathan.
Not the right answer but you've figured out part of the puzzle.
Just as I posted, I saw that Omer figured it out. Go ahead Omer.
Vuk.
[This message was edited by Vuk Vuksanovic on MONDAY 08 January 2001 at 17:53.]
Posted on: 10 January 2001 by Former member
Just like detective stories are publsihed chapter by chapter in newpapers - a composer published his work, each month printing for the readers the score of the added piece, for a whole year.
Who's the composer ?
Posted on: 10 January 2001 by Todd A
?
Posted on: 10 January 2001 by Former member
Todd,
That's brilliant !
I visited my brother yesterday, and he let me hear a piano piece by Prokofiev that someone recorded for him. He also told me this story that he published it in the newspaper, and it describes the various months. I thought this was a nice question, anyhow I looked for it in the internet today and no trace to this story, anyhow I thoght I'd ask this. I now looked and it indeed was Tchaikovsky who wrote these 12 pieces relating to the months (seasons) of the year.
So this is not the answer I thought of, but it what I ment.
You're next.
Omer.
Posted on: 10 January 2001 by Todd A
What famous early 20th century pianist was the brother of an equally famous (if not more so) philosopher?
Posted on: 10 January 2001 by Former member
Paul and Ludwig Wittgenstein
