Klarinet Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 2005/02

From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: Re: [kl] name, nearly OT
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:21:38 -0500

Bill wrote:

<<
According to
> http://www.stringsinthemountains.org/m2m/name.htm
in addition to "Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophillus Amadeus
Mozart", Mozart's father attempted to add "Sigismundus", but this didn't
stick. I wonder what Sigismundus means? "Follower of the world"
>>

This is a latinization of "Siegmund", and means as much as "he who conquers
the world". Siegmund you will recognize from this antisemite's opera's "Der
Ring der Nibelungen".

Rien

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