Performers/Composers with ridiculous last names...

dtemp · Post by **dtemp** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:58 pm

Hello TubeNet Braintrust-

I'm working on something at work, and I want to include a short with musicians/composers with really hard-to-pronounce foreign last names.

I'm not looking to delve into the SUPER obscure here, but just post any ideas you have.

Thanks!

gregsundt · Post by **gregsundt** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:06 pm

Not to be too obvious...

Englebert Humperdinck. Maybe it's not so obscure any more.

J.c. Sherman · Post by **J.c. Sherman** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:11 pm

Ole Schmidt. That's what you say when you see the double high F in his Tuba Concerto!

J.c.S.

Biggs · Post by **Biggs** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:09 pm

My favorites:

Dietrich Buxtehude
Johann Fux

Stefan Kac · Post by **Stefan Kac** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:10 pm

Only slightly less obvious...

I have rarely heard "Penderecki" pronounced correctly.

Also...

http://www.music.lsu.edu/faculty/constantinides.html

Toobist · Post by **Toobist** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:23 pm

While I don't know if it's along the same lines...

I have to snicker whenever we pull out the Sheidt (sp?) from the quintet folders.

dtemp · Post by **dtemp** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:37 pm

I'm looking for more along the lines of real long, hard-to-pronounce ones. I would give you an example, but I'm blanking (hence the thread).

Keep 'em coming though...

CrappyEuph · Post by **CrappyEuph** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:38 pm

Sofia Gubaidulina

ZNC Dandy · Post by **ZNC Dandy** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:54 pm

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:04 pm

Harrison Birtwistle
Walter Aschaffenburg
Jacob Avshalomov
Grazyna Bacewicz
Arno Babadjanyan
Yannis Xenakis
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Sofi Asgatovna Gubaydulina
Vladimir Ussachevsky

To name a few

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:23 pm

eupher61 · Post by **eupher61** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:39 pm

serge koussevitsky is fun too..and misspelled here.
dmitri shosTAkovich

Vaclav Nehlybel

Merle Hogg (pronounced with a Long O, from what I've been told)

GC · Post by GC » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:40 pm

Zdenko G. Fibich

Chadtuba · Post by **Chadtuba** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:43 pm

Darious Milhaud

Not a long name but definitely a confusing one if you don't speak French.

dtemp · Post by **dtemp** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:48 pm

Chuck Jackson wrote:Harrison Birtwistle
Walter Aschaffenburg
Jacob Avshalomov
Grazyna Bacewicz
Arno Babadjanyan
Yannis Xenakis
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Sofi Asgatovna Gubaydulina
Vladimir Ussachevsky

To name a few

POIFICT!

tubeast · Post by **tubeast** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:46 am

Not a composer, but a title: Wachut Auf

ItÂ´ll make more sense if you take a closer look at the text:
"WachEt auf! ruft uns die Stimme der WÃ¤chter auf der hohen Zinne" Wake Up! shouts the voice of guards on the tall pinnacle/battlement (or whatever itÂ´s called in English, the structure on top of castles, watch towers, and city walls)

Other than that: most names of Slavic / middle or east Asian origin will read strange to our eyes. As in Arutjunian, Khatchaturian (to give Armenian examples)

My favorite, as we share the last name:
Schnuckenack Reinhardt (Gipsy jazz musician loosely related to Django Reinhardt)
There are a lot of famous names in this genre that will sound strange to German ears. Great music and musicians, though.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:04 am

ZoltÃ¡n KodÃ¡ly

goldtuba · Post by **goldtuba** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:22 am

Bix Beiderbecke

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:09 pm

Not a composer, but a real guy I've met:

Bentley Erdwurm

MA

9811matt · Post by **9811matt** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:54 pm

From the German Band genre...

Bruno Balz