Significa #22 - Questions

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Who am I?

1. I 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)

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?

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 (or something to that affect) at the time. Who was the dedicatee, encryptee, first performer?

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.

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

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

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

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

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