Personally, I think that Michael Thames and Matanya Ophee are one and the same person - the timing is just too weird: one goes, the other one arrives... But I don't recall M.O. mentioning being a luthier or M.T. mentioning publishing. Maybe it's a case of split personality? Alain
Howard Posner wrote: >Get your tickets to this flame war early... > >Matanio Opheo wrote: > > > >>If you are saying that some Austrians used Italianized names, you are >>breaking the lock on an open door. We know that already. If you >>intimate that just because one Austrian football coach working in >>Italy had an Italianized name, then an Austrian guitarist who was >>born in 1818 and was never in Italy could also have an Italianized >>name, without any evidence that he was so called, then allow me to >>introduce you to Giovanni Sebastiano Bach, Francesco Haydn, Roberto >>Schumann, Francesco Dolcevillico (Franz Suessmayr) and Federico Handel. >> >> > >I don't know about them, but Beethoven's original title page for his >third symphony said, in his handwriting: > >Sinfonia Grande >Intitolata Buonaparte > > del Sigr > >Luigi van Beethoven > >According to Ferdinand Ries, when he learned that Napoleon had >crowned himself emperor, Beethoven scratched out "Buonaparte," >leaving a hole in the page. A new title page for the first edition >says: > > S I N F O N I A E R O I C A > > composta >per festiggiare il sovvenire di un grand Uomo > e dedicate >A Sua Altessa Serenissima in Principe di Lobkowikz > da > Luigi van Beethoven > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >
