An alternative-fact composer

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norman lebrecht

February 21, 2017

So that’s how we’re spelling Honegger in 2017?

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  • Brian says:
    February 21, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    This is clearly a question of stones and glass houses. Only yesterday you wrote “Paavo Jarvi”, Mr Lebrecht.

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    • GB says:
      February 21, 2017 at 2:46 pm

      And is that wrong ?

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      • Bruce says:
        February 21, 2017 at 3:09 pm

        If he’s going on insist on an umlaut from a keyboard that doesn’t have them, then I’m going to have to roll my eyes and say “oh please.”

        (Yes yes, you can hold down your “ALT” key and type 132 — see http://www.alt-codes.net/ — but it’s a pain in the ass)

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        • Mario Denis says:
          February 21, 2017 at 4:10 pm

          Wow Bruce, you are as old as me to remember Ascii codes!!!!!!!!…..they were fun.

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        • Max Grimm says:
          February 21, 2017 at 4:22 pm

          In the absence of the respective keys and instead of all those codes, it is perfectly fine to replace ‘ä’ / ‘ö’ / ‘ü’ with ‘ae’ / ‘oe’ / ‘ue’ and it doesn’t seem as though Norman had issues using Umlaute in the past (https://slippedisc.com/2016/07/paavo-jarvi-rolls-his-own-orchestra/).
          Suffice it to say, Norman forgetting an umlaut on his blog, which he can correct in 5 seconds isn’t in the same category as a music label misspelling a composers name and printing album covers en masse with the misspelling proudly displayed.

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          • Henri-Pierre1958 says:
            February 21, 2017 at 5:03 pm

            It is particularly shameful for the Swiss Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble – bien entendu en Suisse Romande !!!
            Honegger is on each 20 Fr. banknote. The days of decent proof reading – long gone.

          • John Borstlap says:
            February 22, 2017 at 8:02 pm

            The Swiss are famous for their thoroughness and stubborn professionalism, as can be seen in their railway system, their knives, the cleanness of their streets and their excellent hotel manners. When, in the extremely unusual case that they make a mistake, they make it with the same unflinching thoroughness, and they stubbornly finish the production process of their CD irrespective of public outrage.

          • Max Grimm says:
            February 22, 2017 at 9:39 pm

            Well put, John.

  • Pedro says:
    February 21, 2017 at 5:45 pm

    Composer of Joan of Arc at the butcher’s…
    https://slippedisc.com/2017/02/joan-of-arc-wasnt-she-a-nun/

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    • Brian says:
      February 22, 2017 at 1:17 pm

      Hi Pedro, given that your name sounds vaguely Spanish, perhaps you’d care to explain to the good people on this blog the difference between “Feliz año nuevo” and “Feliz ano nuevo”.

      It’s only a tilde…

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  • Mikey says:
    February 21, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    It can’t be worse than the album of the Poulenc sextet entitled “Sextour”.

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    • John Borstlap says:
      February 22, 2017 at 8:04 pm

      Poulenc would have liked that.

      Worse is the poster mistake when in the early 19hundreds Mahler’s 2nd symphony was announced in Parisian streets as written by ‘Malheur’.

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  • Bob Slagle says:
    February 21, 2017 at 8:53 pm

    Gee, this is just a misspelling. I thought it was going to be an article about P.D.Q. Bach. Best wishes Mr. Lebrecht have a wonderful day

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  • jaxon says:
    February 27, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    Wasn’t it the Cleveland Orchestra that put out a recording ~15 years ago that identified the composer as “Hadyn”?

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