Thursday, March 31, 2005

Riddle Me This

What do the following four musical pieces have in common?
1. "String Quartet in C major ("Emperor"), No. 3, 2nd Movement", and
2. the pre-WWI Austrian National Anthem, and
3. the Christian hymns such as,"Word of God, Across the Sea" or
4. "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken"

Numbers 2, 3, and 4 are based the first piece. It, in turn, was written by Franz Josef Haydn.

Today, 31 March, is Haydn's 273rd birthday.

6 comments:

史路比 said...

wah... seems that you know lot about music, your blog is worth reading~ ^^

L'envoi said...

Why, thank you for your kind words, Snoopy. :)

Have you ever read Robert Short's "The Gospel According to Peanuts" ?

史路比 said...

you deserve it! ^^ do tell us more about music.

by the way, have you heard something about "Evangelicals and Catholics Together?" what's your view on it?

史路比 said...

aiyaya... miss your question!!!

yes, i've been read one written in Chinese, very interesting indeed.

L'envoi said...

I shall write a piece regarding Evangelicals and Catholics.

史路比 said...

that's great! ^O^