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Does anyone have any biographical information about J. Pennock Thompson please?
For example, the composer's dates, gender, and what the J stands for.

Timtin wrote:Does anyone have any biographical information about J. Pennock Thompson please?
For example, the composer's dates, gender, and what the J stands for.

Probably John.

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss ... =seo&hc=20
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1& ... 20Thompson

Regards
Fred

Thank you Fred.
My guess would be Joseph, but maybe it was a pseudonym.
I have a Herbert Wells Thayer book here on my scanning pile.
It turns out that that was a pseudonym of Wilhelm Aletter.

Timtin wrote:I have a Herbert Wells Thayer book here on my scanning pile.
It turns out that that was a pseudonym of Wilhelm Aletter.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Aletter

There's quite a bit of his stuff floating around, including the NLA...http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1157255?c=people

Regards
Fred

Thank you Fred.
According to the site below, Aletter had five pseudonyms but it gives only
three. Sam Weller was another, but it's not clear what the fifth one was.
Also, when uploading a file where a composer used a pseudonym,
presumably the file name should also use the pseudonym.

http://www.dolmetsch.com/cdefsa1.htm

Timtin wrote:Also, when uploading a file where a composer used a pseudonym, presumably the file name should also use the pseudonym.

I think the best way is to include both - such as 'pseudonym'(aka 'realname')filename.pdf or possibly the other way round. That way, both the real name and pseudonym can be searched for.

Regards
Fred

Here's a spot of Paganini!

A slightly inaccurate but amusing film.

Well done that man.

Thal

Thank you Thal.

Methinks this is the best place to be:-

Archibald Joyce (1873 - 1963), the English Waltz King,
hasn't previously been mentioned on Pianophilia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Joyce

This is his Reverie, Birth of Love (not a Waltz):-