Pianophilia

Hi Alpha. You correctly guessed no.5!

5.Jean Sibelius, Finnish.

Here's a revised version of (the dual-nationality?) no.3:-

3.Deranged - wrangles him (6,6,7).

Cunning, Tim, but a dead give-away from the first version of the clue.
It must be Edward German, English
Welcome to the solvers club alpha, Nogbert and I were beginning to think this thread had the pox or something.
My computer is just back from the hospital after having some remedial surgery and bypasses done and now seems to have eight legs. So have just seen the quiz, nice idea Timtin, very glad you didn't find a composer from Bosnia-Herzegovina, we really would have been struggling then I think.
regards
brian

Hi Brian - because both 'English' and 'German' were available
from the letters given, by specifying the word lengths exactly,
'English' might have been too easy to spot as the nationality.
So I thought I'd leave it unspecified, leaving open the possibility
that 'German' would be guessed as the nationality, leading to confusion!

As so often happens, I'm too late to participate in the latest challenge!

Jo

Following the usual format, here are 10 anagrams
of composers' names. Who are they, and what is the
connection between them?

1. Ragged drive (6,5)
2. Turk hooked all (7,6)
3. Grr! Axe me (3,5)
4. Inaner cells (4,7)
5. Jeering fresh bore (5,11)
6. Jer on truth (4,6)
7. Regression SOS (5,8)
8. As in jubilees (4,8)
9. The tactile pimp (7,7)
10. Titter giver (5,6).

Timtin wrote:Following the usual format, here are 10 anagrams
of composers' names. Who are they, and what is the
connection between them?

To get things going, here are the odd-numbered ones:

1. Edvard Grieg
3. Max Reger
5. Josef Rheinberger
7. Roger Sessions
9. Michael Tippett

Jo

So far, so good Jo! I'm sure you've got the others too!

Two-and-a-half-more to try:-

11. Ran dividend fad (9,5)
12. A rigorous satanic major (4,10,7)
12a. A cigar jar (1,1,7).
(12=12a).

(The point behind this quiz is really to highlight a curious
coincidence about 3 particular composers strongly associated
with their own countries, all in one European area.)

Timtin wrote:11. Ran dividend fad (9,5)
12. A rigorous satanic major (4,10,7)
12a. A cigar jar (1,1,7).
(12=12a).

Continuing the series of alternating numbers:

11. Ferdinand David
12a. J C Arriaga

Scandinavia seems to feature rather prominently...

Much local excitement about Richard III, Tim?

Hi Jo,
Too easy for you!!!
Richard III - yes - great local interest, although York tried to stake
a claim to his bones!
(Actually, I prefer the cetiosaurus dinosaur skeleton at the museum.)

Hi Tim,
4. Carl Nielsen
6. John Rutter
8. Jean Sibelius
10. Geirr Tveitt,

I will leave the other two for Jo or our new solver, alpha.
I found No.6 the hardest of all as I was looking for a composer!

cheers
Brian
PS Give us our Dick back you can have your Pearsonosaurus Kaerleiriensis and stick him in the museum