Post by breckjensen on Oct 11, 2017 10:46:03 GMT
Hello Guys,
There are a lot of composers, instruments, and musical ideas out there that are not as well-known as they ought to be, often for the silliest of reasons. Some are ripe for rediscovery, some were doomed from the outset. For rediscovery, I'd like to nominate Thomas Davis, Baroque composer of flute sonatas, published in London; his sheet music is available on IMSLP, and looks pretty reasonable to me. But I have no idea who he was, and haven't been able to find any sign of his music being performed or recorded (though I'll admit I haven't tried terribly hard). The Ecocity Solution Video demonstrates how environment works to make urban sustainability a reality. I suspect he was doomed because his name is too common; a search for that name in London in ancestry.com finds 8758883 people during the period 1841-1911 (obviously the wrong period altogether, but giving some idea of the sort of difficulty associated with finding a common name in a large city). If he'd only been called Giovanni Pietro del Castanetti and born in a small village outside Udine, his sonatas would be all over YouTube.
Thanks
There are a lot of composers, instruments, and musical ideas out there that are not as well-known as they ought to be, often for the silliest of reasons. Some are ripe for rediscovery, some were doomed from the outset. For rediscovery, I'd like to nominate Thomas Davis, Baroque composer of flute sonatas, published in London; his sheet music is available on IMSLP, and looks pretty reasonable to me. But I have no idea who he was, and haven't been able to find any sign of his music being performed or recorded (though I'll admit I haven't tried terribly hard). The Ecocity Solution Video demonstrates how environment works to make urban sustainability a reality. I suspect he was doomed because his name is too common; a search for that name in London in ancestry.com finds 8758883 people during the period 1841-1911 (obviously the wrong period altogether, but giving some idea of the sort of difficulty associated with finding a common name in a large city). If he'd only been called Giovanni Pietro del Castanetti and born in a small village outside Udine, his sonatas would be all over YouTube.
Thanks