Chopin and prokofiev

[imbetter]

I just figured this out. Prokofiev was born the same day as I was, and Chopin recieved his baptisimal certificat the same day i was born. I find this extremly interesting, maybe it's an omen 

[jre58591]

judging from your previous posts, a bad omen...

[pies]

Prokofiev and Stalin died on the same day.

[soliloquy]

Scarlatti, Bach and Handel were all born on the exact same day.  And I mean the exact same; same year and everything.

[imbetter]

Scarlatti, Bach and Handel were all born on the exact same day.  And I mean the exact same; same year and everything.

Creepy 

[bench warmer]

Thomas Jefferson  and John Adams died within the same hour of the same day of the same year: 4th of July.

[nicco]

Scarlatti, Bach and Handel were all born on the exact same day.  And I mean the exact same; same year and everything.

err..no.

George Frideric Handel - 23 February 1685

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti - October 26 1685

Johann Sebastian Bach - 21 March 1685

[mikey6]

Ton hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln.

[ihatepop]

Leonardo Da Vinci is related to Hitler.

ihatepop

[ihatepop]

Mona Lisa was Da Vinci's step-sister.

ihatepop

[henrah]

Rachmaninov drove Chopin back home from a recital.

[mad_max2024]

Rachmaninov was JSBach's granddaughter

[pianistimo]

what?!   vincent persichetti could be related to beethoven then?  actually, he doesn't look that much like beethoven - and from reading this book about julliard school - was very adept at teaching music.  'everything he spoke about or played had one purpose; to help the students make essential aural connections to what would otherwise be just intellectual concepts.'  perhaps he was more related to beethoven by his matter of fact way with music.

[henrah]

Prokofiev secretly fancied the pants off Rachmaninov, despite all his rants about how much he hated his music.




lol this would be a great place to start rumours!

[ahinton]

this would be a great place to start rumours!

But how good a place would it be to end them? (other than such absurd and easily debunkable ones as J S Bach, Handel and D Scarlatti being born on precisely the same day, that is - and I take leave to suspect that the perpetrator of that one here knew perfectly well all along that they were all born in the same year but not on the same date but thought nevertheless that it might make for a good wind-up - forgive me if I am wrong about that...)...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Thomas Jefferson  and John Adams died within the same hour of the same day of the same year: 4th of July.

Er, no; John Adams is still alive and almost certainly still writing - oh, THAT John Adams! - sorry (I keep forgetting that this is not primarily a music-oriented forum...).

Maybe it's also a shame that Elliott's forename isn't Jimmy (or maybe not)...

Best,

Alistair

[le_poete_mourant]

I saw the two names in the topic, and couldn't help thinking that Prokofiev didn't like Chopin - he thought he wasn't violent enough.

[ahinton]

"Without music, life would be a mistake." 
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

I can't now remember who perverted this well-known quote (which is surely as true as it is that day follows night) as follows, but I thought I'd just pop it in here in case anyone's interested or might want to comment on it:

"Without Nietzsche, a mistake could be a life".

Best,

Alistair

[henrah]

Who is Nietzsche?

[ramseytheii]

Who is Nietzsche?

He's dead

Walter Ramsey

[henrah]

And that's his major significance? I guess he wasn't very well liked.

[mad_max2024]

And that's his major significance? I guess he wasn't very well liked.

He did say god was dead...
Maybe that's why

[bench warmer]

Who is Nietzsche?

To papraphrase some of his philosophy I think he was the the guy who first came up with:"What goes around, Comes around"

He's dead, but the Merry-Go-Round(Life) keeps turning.


Alistair: At Least you didn't say "Oh, THAT Thomas Jefferson!"

[jre58591]

Alistair: At Least you didn't say "Oh, THAT Thomas Jefferson!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coolidge_Adams
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Luther_Adams

you obviously havent heard of either composer.

[ahinton]

Alistair: At Least you didn't say "Oh, THAT Thomas Jefferson!"

No, indeed - and with the good reason of which you are presumably already well aware!...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coolidge_Adams
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Luther_Adams

you obviously havent heard of either composer.

Who hasn't? - i.e. whom do you mean by "you"?...

Best,

Alistair

[jre58591]

i was referring to bench warmer. i think he took your john adams joke the wrong way.

[bench warmer]

i was referring to bench warmer. i think he took your john adams joke the wrong way.

Nah, I never take a joke the wrong way. (I try not to bend over!)

Well, off to practice that Scott Adams piece: The Dilbert Requiem.