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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #50 on: August 26, 2004, 11:28:39 PM
Is the piece for piano solo?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #51 on: August 26, 2004, 11:54:19 PM
Yep

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #52 on: August 27, 2004, 02:01:43 AM
I see the composer lived in the 1800's did he/she die in the 1800's also?

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #53 on: August 27, 2004, 02:19:01 AM
No :)

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #54 on: August 27, 2004, 02:35:02 AM
Is the piece a sonata?

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #55 on: August 27, 2004, 02:38:32 AM
Yes

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #56 on: August 27, 2004, 02:45:26 AM
Does this composer have more than 1 concerto?

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #57 on: August 27, 2004, 02:52:13 AM
No

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #58 on: August 27, 2004, 02:54:01 AM
Ok my guess....going on nothing except I think I know the composer is Scriabin....


Scriabin piano sonata 1 in F minor

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #59 on: August 27, 2004, 03:04:17 AM
Nope, that's not it.

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #60 on: August 27, 2004, 10:33:24 AM
Can I have a cryptic statement?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #61 on: August 27, 2004, 11:22:53 PM
It puzzled even the composer.

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #62 on: August 27, 2004, 11:37:38 PM
is it a one movement sonata?

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #63 on: August 28, 2004, 01:05:38 AM
Yes

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #64 on: August 28, 2004, 02:19:33 AM
Does this sonata have a nickname? (even if not by the composer)
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Reply #65 on: August 28, 2004, 02:56:53 AM
Scriabin sonata #10???

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #66 on: August 28, 2004, 07:06:46 PM
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Does this sonata have a nickname? (even if not by the composer)

Yes

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #67 on: August 28, 2004, 07:07:30 PM
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Scriabin sonata #10???



No, sorry.  :-/

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #68 on: August 28, 2004, 10:56:56 PM
Is it the white mass sonata, by Scriabin?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #69 on: August 28, 2004, 11:11:17 PM
Is is Scriabin's sonata no. 9 ("Black Mass")?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #70 on: August 29, 2004, 08:06:43 AM
Bernhard wins! :D

Written between 1912 and 1913, this one movement sonata is one of the spookiest pieces in piano repertory. Scriabin notoriously never played it piece, since he didn't understand why he wrote it in the first place--He said he wrote it in a "sinister fit."

Anywho... Bernhard, does this piece fall into the baroque era?

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #71 on: August 29, 2004, 01:15:39 PM
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Bernhard wins! :D


Anywho... Bernhard, does this piece fall into the baroque era?


No.

It is not baroque.

But I will say this: A whole bunch of composers did it, but only this one is remembered today.
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #72 on: August 29, 2004, 07:47:56 PM
Is it a suite of variations?

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #73 on: August 29, 2004, 08:18:25 PM
Is it Beethovens variations on a theme by Diabelli?

Had to take a stab at it.
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #74 on: August 29, 2004, 08:31:18 PM
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Is it Beethovens variations on a theme by Diabelli?

Had to take a stab at it.



Sorry Benji, you were right, but

:D :D :DAhmedito did it! :D :D :D


I guess my cyrptic statement was too obvious, darn! >:(
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #75 on: August 29, 2004, 08:42:45 PM
Wow that's go to be a record!!! Well Ahmedito is the piece for piano solo?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #76 on: August 29, 2004, 08:44:02 PM
yep, that was an obvious cryptic statement.... and it helps that right now I am doing a comparative analisis of Beethovens Diabelli variations with variations by another bunch of composers such as Reis, Humboldt, Kullak, etc. etc. etc.


Anyways.... here is my cryptic statement:

Many say the true origins of this piece were in the death of a spouse.

(Is that how you spell spouse? My english is not 100% you see....)
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #77 on: August 29, 2004, 08:46:08 PM
It is for piano solo.
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #78 on: August 30, 2004, 02:40:27 AM
Was the dead spouse the composer's wife/husband?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #79 on: August 30, 2004, 02:52:40 AM
Damn, you made the only question that could actually clarify this statement a bit more. Actually, the dead spouse was not related to the composer.

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #80 on: August 31, 2004, 01:44:32 AM
Was the piece specifically comissioned (say, by the living spouse) to honour the memory of the dead spouse?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #81 on: August 31, 2004, 03:38:47 AM
ummm...not at all.
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #82 on: August 31, 2004, 03:46:17 AM
ummm...not at all. Its intent may have been to honour the dead spouse... but it was not comisioned.
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #83 on: September 01, 2004, 01:08:56 AM
Hmmm the plot thickens!

Is the composer from the Impressionist period/style?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #84 on: September 01, 2004, 01:47:11 AM
no
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #85 on: September 03, 2004, 12:44:48 AM
Was the composer from the Classical period?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #86 on: September 03, 2004, 02:26:26 AM
nope
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #87 on: September 03, 2004, 02:54:18 AM
Baroque?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #88 on: September 03, 2004, 03:44:33 AM
nope
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #89 on: September 03, 2004, 03:48:15 AM
how about 20th century?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #90 on: September 03, 2004, 04:04:12 AM
:D













































... no
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #91 on: September 03, 2004, 04:47:54 AM
is it rach 3?

haha just joking....is it by Schumann?

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #92 on: September 03, 2004, 08:43:44 AM
nope. not Schumman.
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #93 on: September 03, 2004, 08:44:38 AM
;D you dont have a clue, I am so good.

I made my cryptic statement pretty ambigous, just so you know.
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #94 on: September 03, 2004, 11:52:23 AM
Is it a Western European composer?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #95 on: September 03, 2004, 12:44:02 PM
Is the composer Brahms?

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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #96 on: September 03, 2004, 06:42:45 PM
yes  :)

The composer is Brahms.
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #97 on: September 03, 2004, 08:56:53 PM
Ballade no. 4 Op. 10 ? ?
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #98 on: September 03, 2004, 09:03:57 PM
no.

Remember, you only have 2 tries left for the name of the piece.
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Re: Riddle #6
Reply #99 on: September 04, 2004, 02:26:42 AM
Brahms Theme and Variation (A major) Op.9 for Clara Schumann based on a theme by Robert Schumann?
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