Klarinet Archive - Posting 000530.txt from 2001/04

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Dauvergne
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 18:52:41 -0400

To Rien,

Thanks - that agrees with and amplifies what I could find in the dictionary.=
=20

ME is the abbreviation for Maine - and you will notice I have changed it to
the full spelling. Even people from other parts of this country have to
ask, sometimes, so I shouldn't assume that folks in other countries would
know. (FYI, Maine is the Northeastern-most state in the union.)

At 22:02 4/22/01 +0200, you wrote:
>At Sat, 21 Apr 2001 19:00:44 -0400 George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org> wrote
>
><<
>
>This morning, Maine PBS played a wind quintet composed by a person whose
>name I got as Antoine de Mirne, but who is probably the Antoine Dauvergne
>who appears in the Harvard CDM. (And who I suspect spelled his name
>d'Auvergne, since he was born in Moulins [1713] which is in the province of
>Auvergne.) A search of the Sneezy composer database turns up only an
>instrumental group "d'Auvergne", but no person. Is anyone familiar with
>this wind quintet and its composer?
>George Kidder
>Bar Harbor, ME
>
>>>
>
>Antoine d'Auvergne, sometimes spelled as "Dauvergne", was borne in Moulins
>de Clermont-Ferrand on October 3, 1713 and died in Lyon in February 1797.
>His first job was with the Grand Op@-----. Later=
he
>became superintendant (I hope that 's the right translation). He was mainly
>a composer of operas in the genre "comique" and "trag=E9die-lyrique" (comec
>and tragic-lyrical operas), but also a few motets and a few instrumental
>works. Alas I don't know his quintet. Hope you enjoyed it.
>
>By the way: which state is indicated by "ME"?
>
>Rien
>
>
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George Kidder
Bar Harbor, Maine

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