Rarity and curiousity

[Jim Faston]

Would Constant Lambert's piano duet "Trois Pieces Negres sur les Touches Blanches" fit your criterion?

[Timtin]

Sounds like another candidate, Jim. However, without actually
seeing the score (it's blocked on IMSLP), one can't be certain.
I'll scan my Handel example later today.
Regards, Tim.

[Timtin]

Here's the Handel I had in mind. The book it's from (ca.1830)
rather splendidly gives all the tempi in pendulum inches. Who
needs metronomes anyway - ghastly unmusical things. I hate 'em!

Handel Esther 2 Choruses (2H Crotch).pdf

[Jim Faston]

Sounds like another candidate, Jim. However, without actually
seeing the score (it's blocked on IMSLP), one can't be certain.
I'll scan my Handel example later today.
Regards, Tim.

Sorry, I thought it appeared here at one time. In any event, here's the Lambert (nms):

Lambert_Trois Pieces Negres.pdf

[Timtin]

Thanks, Jim. That certainly qualifies. I expect there
are various other examples out there also, but actually
thinking of them isn't that easy.

[Timtin]

Q.What do Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Liszt, Mozart, and Prokofiev
all have in common?

A.They're all craters on Mercury!

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


NASA's Messenger space probe has just discovered that underneath the polar crater of
Prokofiev, there may be vast amounts of water.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/new ... meter.html

[fredbucket]

NASA's Messenger space probe has just discovered that underneath the polar crater of
Prokofiev, there may be vast amounts of water.

Didn't Prokofiev write Swan Lake???

Regards
P.I.T.

[Jim Faston]

NASA's Messenger space probe has just discovered that underneath the polar crater of
Prokofiev, there may be vast amounts of water.

Didn't Prokofiev write Swan Lake???

Regards
P.I.T.

Water Music.

[Timtin]

Have we finally stumbled across the definition of what constitutes a great composer?
That is to say, do they have a Mercurial crater named after them? I do hope so!

Regards, Tim.

PS Tchaikovsky is represented, but annoyingly, they've spelled his name with a C.

[fredbucket]

Have we finally stumbled across the definition of what constitutes a great composer?

I'm waiting for someone to name an asteroid after me...

Regards
Fred