Performers/Composers with ridiculous last names...

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

Randy Beschorner · Post by **Randy Beschorner** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:09 am

It's a short name, but I love the look of the inexperienced announcer who salutes the composer of "Entrance of the Gladiators," Julius Ernst Wilhelm FuÄ

sungfw · Post by **sungfw** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:07 am

Roger Bobo

Theophilus Gibber: singer, brother-in-law of Thomas Arne (composer of Rule Britannia); the awfulest given name and surname for a singer ever.