1 Kompianist
A composer who plays a bit
2 Geiger counter
Metronome for violinists
3 Dirgent
Very slow, morbid conductor
4 Konzertscheisster
Artists agent
5 Kontrabass
A fish served upside down
6 Fach off
Variable singer
(c) NL
Feel free to add more….
He is already music director of the Metropolitan…
The tenor Ian Bostridge shocked Symphony Hall Birmingham…
The ARD competition has sacked Liang Wang, principal…
The conductor continues his agitation for a new…
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“Die Frau ohne Stimme” — Opera without voices
Let’s make this one compound word:
diefrauohnestimme
The Messiah:
The first Black American man that wins the Queen Elizabeth Violin Competition (A Black American Woman would be too easy).
This is more along the lines of Mr. Lebrecht’s suggestion.
Note that in German you can find words like;
—
JonasKaufmannssingenunzufriedenheitssyndrom.
—
This (single word) would mean:
The Syndrome Resulting form the Unsatisfaction which is Provoked by Jonas Kaufmann’s Singing.
A word such as this would be created if the concept were frequently used.
So I guess it exists already.
and the point of all this is…?
Fun.
Meistercurse
Kranjan’s legacy
Excuse the typo – Karajan’s legacy of curse…
Why apologise? Kranjan is brilliant!
It must be my German non existing sense of humour …
I’ll let a Danish genius add some musical word play at its best:
A Mozart Opera
https://youtu.be/RtDX1Vl-Jxk
Or, for some German speaking humour, I highly recommend (the Austrian/American) Georg Kreisler:
Der Musikkritiker
https://youtu.be/sRqb252w_vI
Überhohen – Sir Simon Rattle
Hundinger: An outstanding Wagnerian bass performance.
“Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings leider”
(from an Australian newspaper)
Englischhorn
Snowden
Faggot – a blow instrument
Da Brat shits
Kontrafaggot
homophobe
Yes, many of his tempos were slow but Otto Klemperer deserves better than this with his photo posted in this terrible article. He was one of the greatest conductors of all time and an acknowledged expert on Beethoven. Shame on these people who put together this nonsense.
Fleischkopf und Härtel – a not very bright publishing house.