Pianophilia

HullandHellandHalifax wrote: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

Hi Brian,
Ah, poor John Rutter! To be honest, finding composers with the
same first and last letter in their surnames was harder than expected.
Regards, Tim.
PS Up the Blues and the Tigers (RU team)!

Haha Tim, indeed I had forgotten that there are another team of Tigers, what a strange coincidence. Happily we play the man's version of Rugby in Hull not that southern wimpy version, our few RU teams don't have much success, which is no surprise. In all honesty I love the league version, the Union version is too much like it's American cousin, League is faster and flows better without the endless rucks and line-outs, but that's my opinion of course.
Poor old Rutter, commercially successful and totally kitsch, still he has nore brass than I have so who am I to criticise.
regards
Brian

I suppose I will have to finish the quiz off,
2 is Theodor Kullak
12 is the expanded version of 12a which is Juan Crisostomo Arriaga.

Nasty quiz fermenting in the think tank at the moment. hehe!
Brian

HullandHellandHalifax wrote:I suppose I will have to finish the quiz off,
2 is Theodor Kullak
12 is the expanded version of 12a which is Juan Crisostomo Arriaga.

Nasty quiz fermenting in the think tank at the moment. hehe!
Brian

OMG!!!

HullandHellandHalifax wrote:I suppose I will have to finish the quiz off

Well, if you must burn the midnight oil...

HullandHellandHalifax wrote:Nasty quiz fermenting in the think tank at the moment. hehe!

I echo Tim's OMG. Looking forward to Brian's challenge!

Jo

I promised you boys something horrible and here it is. It is as usual a set of anagrams.
Clues 1. Get 6a and 6b will be obvious, the reverse is also true.
2. All the composers have something in common to do with their status, clue 6b is the important clue here.
3. two are Dutch, two are Polish, one is English and the other is Bohemian not necessarily in that order, I would say two are very well known the others very obscure including one whose music was published under someone else's name and it was only a recent discovery that restored that composers name to where it belonged.
I need hardly add...good luck and may the most patient among you be victorius
Brian

1. Maniac Nina swallows revue 5,6,3,9
2. Cajun Boy cake 5,3,4
3. Zach zap fizzy drinks or trouble cat 7,5,1,6,1,9
4. wary comic sizzle walk 10,9
5. Win Zoltan a sumo kiss 9,9
6a Why Hogwarts trite dunghill? 6,4,8,6
6b Nerd's borrel 4,7

Did 1 and 2 like going Dutch?
Did 3's name go from a to z in reverse order?
Was 4 an 'MK' Dons supporter?
Was 5 into 'S&M'?
Was 6 an upper class 'Tyrwhitt'?
Were they all born into the nobility?

Brian - No 2 has a "u" where I'd expect to see a "v".

Otherwise I agree with Tim for 1, 2, 6a and 6b, as well as the general conclusion. I haven't yet had time to unscramble 3-5, but I'm rather intrigued by Tim's clue to 5.

Jo

OK, I have the others now. The two Poles (4 and 5) are pretty well known, but the Bohemian is new to me.

Jo

Let's be on first name terms.

1. Unico
2. Jacob
3. Krystof
4. Mieczyslaw
5. Stanislaw
6a. Gerald
6b. Lord.

Thank you Brian (and Jo) - I enjoyed it!

Regards, Tim.