Riddle # 7

[xvimbi]

If this isn't it....  I don't know what it could be.

There is a letter to that princess from Liszt that mentions one of his opera fantasies, and it does have to do with religion.  However, it's a very obscure work I've never heard but I'll give it a shot.

Is it Réminiscences des Puritains(Bellini) by Liszt?

I was just to blurt out Liszt's Hexameron Variations, but you beat me as the full title is:
Morceau de Concert - Grandes Variations de Bravoure pour Piano sur la Marche des Puritains de Bellini, composees pour le Concert de Mme la Princesse Belgiojoso au Benefice des pauvres
with contributions by Thalberg, Pixis, Herz, Chopin and Czerny (which must be the "personalitieS" Rob47 was referring to.

[Rob47]

Yes that's correct xvimbi

nightscape128 although you are right in a sense, the work I was looking to be named was Hexameron, and the names of the composers, not Reminsces of by just Liszt.  Kind of a trick question I'm sorry.
And the thing about religion, Eugene List says:
"The dictionary defines HEXAMERON as "the six days of Creation, or a history therof as contained in Genesis," but in the case of this work, one of the grandest of those grand Romantic extravaganzas so often referred to but so rarely performed, the Biblical connotation, if intended at all, is of little consequence; the term simply indentifies a series of six variations, each by a different composer, on a theme from Bellini's oper I Puritani

So I guess, Xvimbi gets it.

[Nightscape]

Call to recompense!!!

Nah... just kidding.  I considered Hexameron a while back but dismissed it because I didn't know it was religious (should have looked it up).  I was a little unsure of my guess "Reminesces of the Puritans" becuase it looks that that has only been recorded once by Leslie Howard.

Anyways.... let the game continue!

[xvimbi]

I guess, it's my turn then: This one is quite threatening, and triply so.

[bernhard]

Is it a piano-solo piece?

[xvimbi]

Is it a piano-solo piece?

yes (originally, at least).

[JK]

Is/was the composer French?

[xvimbi]

Is/was the composer French?

no/no

[Nightscape]

was the piece written in the romantic period?

[xvimbi]

was the piece written in the romantic period?

yes

[Nightscape]

Was the piece written by Liszt?

[xvimbi]

Was the piece written by Liszt?

no

[bernhard]

Was the composer Russian?

[xvimbi]

Was the composer Russian?

Da!

[Nightscape]

Is the composer Borodin?

[xvimbi]

Is the composer Borodin?

no

[bernhard]

Let us ressurect this thread!

Does the piece has more than one movement?

[xvimbi]

Let us ressurect this thread!

Wow, this thread died three days ago, and now it has an empty tomb of its own

Does the piece has more than one movement?

No.

[bernhard]

Wow, this thread died three days ago, and now it has an empty tomb of its own

No.

That's the problem with ressurrection. You die again. I wonder what happened to Lazarus...

So. Can I have a cryptic statement?

[xvimbi]

So. Can I have a cryptic statement?

Seems, we are playing a little, private game here

Cryptic statement: The composer considered himself "unfinished".

[Rob47]

is the composer Musorgsky?

[squinchy]

Does this piece have to do with a dance of some sort?

[xvimbi]

is the composer Musorgsky?

No

[xvimbi]

Does this piece have to do with a dance of some sort?

Not that I am aware of.

[Spatula]

Was he/she a plagerist like the likes of ahem someone with:

"the part of the pot where you pick it up so you don't burn your hands with the pot?"

 

[sharon_f]

Is it the Godowsky study based on Chopin's G# minor etude (in thirds)?

[xvimbi]

Was he/she a plagerist like the likes of ahem someone with:

"the part of the pot where you pick it up so you don't burn your hands with the pot?"

I am not quite sure what you mean by this, but I don't think he/she was particularly known as a plagiarist, although there were resemblences between his/her music and the music of others, particularly during his/her formative years, just like it was/is the case with any other composer.

[xvimbi]

Is it the Godowsky study based on Chopin's G# minor etude (in thirds)?

No

[Nightscape]

Is the composer Scriabin?

[xvimbi]

Is the composer Scriabin?

No

[Spatula]

Was he/she a plagerist like the likes of ahem someone with:

"the part of the pot where you pick it up so you don't burn your hands with the pot?"

I am not quite sure what you mean by this, but I don't think he/she was particularly known as a plagiarist, although there were resemblences between his/her music and the music of others, particularly during his/her formative years, just like it was/is the case with any other composer.

Is the composer Handel - think handel for the pot so you don't burn urself 

[xvimbi]

Is the composer Handel - think handel for the pot so you don't burn urself 

No (Handel was not Russian...)

[Spatula]

Is the composer Handel - think handel for the pot so you don't burn urself 

No (Handel was not Russian...)

ohh a russian composer okay okay ....  hmmmmmm     

[Spatula]

modest murggorsky

[xvimbi]

modest murggorsky

I need to ask you again if everything is ok.

You need to read what other people have already asked to avoid such questions

[BoliverAllmon]

glazunov?

just a wild guess really

[xvimbi]

glazunov?

just a wild guess really

I'm gonna give you a wild answer: no 

[Nightscape]

Is the composer Ravel?

[Nightscape]

Is the composer Ravel?

Wait.... Ravel isn't russian.  Never mind!

Okay... so was the composer part of the Russian Five?

[Spatula]

modest murggorsky

I need to ask you again if everything is ok.

You need to read what other people have already asked to avoid such questions

No everything is not okay.

Myakovsky

[xvimbi]

Myakovsky

No

[xvimbi]

Okay... so was the composer part of the Russian Five?

No

[Spatula]

Tchaikovsky? Rachie?

I know these were probably said earlier...but just for the hell of it 

[xvimbi]

Tchaikovsky? Rachie?I know these were probably said earlier...but just for the hell of it 

No, No, No, No 

[Nightscape]

Is this a rather obscure work?

[xvimbi]

Is this a rather obscure work?

Not at all.

[Nightscape]

Is it the pictures at an exhibition by mussorgky?

[Scriabinist]

Is it "Diabolical Suggestion" by Prokofiev?

[xvimbi]

Is it the pictures at an exhibition by mussorgky?

No - We did rule out Mussorgsky already...

You guys are not reading the posts!!!

[xvimbi]

Is it "Diabolical Suggestion" by Prokofiev?

No.

Is nobody asking any intelligent questions anymore to narrow down the candidates?