Significa #22

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Who am I?

PLEASE NOTE that there are a few people that scored on just about everything. There are two almost perfect scores.

1. I commercially recorded the Mozart Horn Concerti no less than three times. Recording effort number 1 by far got the best critical acclaim and the lowest overall sales because it was recorded for a private music club and thus, had far less distribution. Who am I and, what famous "record club" recorded my first recording of the Mozart Concertos? (Two Points Possible)

   Alan Civil - World Record Club (Collaboration with EMI) Aside: The only recording in existence of Dennis Brain conducted live by Arturo Toscannini was also originally released by the World Record Club.

   Judith Rowan-1
   Hans Pizka-1
   Adam Baker-1
   Howard Gilbert-1
   Guy Johnson-2
   Anthony Morris-2

2. We all know that it is possible to encode alphabetic messages in music as was done with a famous composition dedicated to Aubrey Brain. What is the name of the composition which has the name "AuBrEy BrAin" encoded into a theme?

   Gordon Jacob Sextet

   Hans Pizka
   Adam Baker
   Justin Fletcher
   Howard Gilbert
   Anthony Morris

3. See number 2 above as this composition also used name encryption into the theme. This time the entire alphabet was "mapped" (with some repetition). The piece is titled "Pastorale, Scherzo, and Aerostie for Unaccompanied Horn" by Rowan Taylor, 1974. Rowan Taylor, I believe, was also the President of the Mormon Composers Association at the time. Who was the dedicatee, encryptee, first performer?

   Walter Hecht

   Howard Gilbert

4. Who am I? I was an extremely celebrated and famous hornist in Vienna and I spent one season in the Boston Symphony in 1936. I was the nephew of the infamous hornist, Karl Stiegler, who wrote St. Hubertus Mass, as we have already learned in an earlier Significa. I returned to Vienna after Boston and continued my celebrated career. I died in 1962.

   Gottfried Von Freiberg

   Karl Schreiber
   Amy McBeth
   Hans Pizka
   Guy Johnson
   Anthony Morris

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5. Which of Verdi's Opera's was an adaptation of the story of Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor?"

   Falstaff

   Kjellrun Hestekin
   Russ Henning
   Robert Newlin
   Ron Swerdlove
   Howard Gilbert
   Judith Rowan
   Hans Pizka
   Justin Fletcher
   Guy Johnson
   James Nickel
   Anthony Morris

6. What popular Opera is translated to mean in English "Rustic Chivalry?"

   Cavalleria Rusticana

   Petra Chong
   Kjellrun Hestekin
   Russ Henning
   Karl Schreiber
   Richard Berthelsdorf
   Ron Swerdlove
   Howard Gilbert
   Judith Rowan
   Hans Pizka
   Dominique Chaumier
   Justin Fletcher
   Guy Johnson
   James Nickel
   Anthony Morris

7. Who was the first conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra?

   This will give you an opportunity to practice your foreign characters on your keyboard.

   Franz Wüllner-1882

   Russ Henning
   Hans Pizka

8. What common musical term translates from French to English to mean "trifle" or a "short Piece?"

   Bagatelle

   Francis Markey
   Richard Berthelsdorf
   Ron Swerdlove
   Howard Gilbert
   Judith Rowan
   Hans Pizka
   Dominique Chaumier
   Jennifer Smith
   Anthony Morris
   Kjellrun Hestekin

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