Classical music teaser - round 2

[Peter]

A slight request - if PM's could be limited to one per person a day please! I had over 7 to read this morning. I've modified Questions 3 as I think it was possibly too vague.

[Quijote]

3. I have often heard it said that Liszt invented the piano recital (but maybe you are thinking of something like the internal combustion engine which was invented by Mozart.)

I offered the same guy (via PM), Michael, but for another "invention", the first flush toilet.

[Michael]

3. I have often heard it said that Liszt invented the piano recital (but maybe you are thinking of something like the internal combustion engine which was invented by Mozart.)

[Michael]

Yes - that has to be right ... unless Peter has gone completely cryptic!

[Quijote]

Q2 : The Titan. Mahler's First. Answered by yours truly. First. Before all of you. See?

[Quijote]

Blimey, this quiz is harder than Round 1.
Anyway, Q2 : One of Saturn's moons is called Prometheus. Beethoven based the fourth movement of his Eroica symphony and his Eroica Variations (piano) on the main theme of the last movement of the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus.
No, scrub that :
Q2 : Mahler's 1st symphony was called the Titan !!!!
That's my answer : The Titan / Mahler.

[Peter]

RULES:

After attempting one question you have to wait 12 hours before attempting another one unless someone else has attempted that question first. The questions cover anything to do with classical music and are not Beethoven specific.

If anyone wishes to send a PM with their anwers that's ok - but I won't ackowledge them as correct or otherwise until posted on the forum - however if they are correct and someone else posts it first on the forum, then I'll credit the person with the PM as well. Please limit PM answers to no more than one per day.


1) A fishy tale about Bertie. Answered by Michael: Britten's Albert Herring - adaption of Maupassant's short story Le Rosier de Madame Husson

2) One of Saturn's moon is the first. Answered by Quijote: Mahler's symphony no.1 'Titan'

3) Great pianist with over 70 patents was a bit of an inventor when sober. Answered by Michael: Josef Hofmann, Anton Rubinstein's only private pupil and one of the greatest pianists of all time. At the age of 12 he was probably the first pianist to record on Edison's phonograph. He was also an inventor with the wind-screen wiper to his credit. Sadly he became an alcoholic in later life and his playing consequently suffered.

4) A singing legend /composer dies in 1832, but the family maintain the legacy. Answered by Michael: Manuel García I (1775 - 1832) was the most famous tenor of his day - 3 of his children went on to International stardom - his daughter known as La Malibran who died tragically young was one of the most celebrated sopranos. Her sister Pauline Garcia-Viardot was an outstanding singer/musician and their brother Manuel García II was one of the most celebrated of singing teachers and passed on the tradition of his father into the 20th century.

5) A concerto well on the brink? Answered by Michael: Elgar's Cello concerto written at his rented cottage Brinkwells in West Sussex.

6) An awkward age but Steve McQueen emerges from the chrysalis. Answered by Michael: Jean Paul's 'Flegeljahre' (An awkward age) inspired Schumann's Papillons (The title of a Steve Mcqueen film).