30Q #72

[Trumpetmaster]

OK, I have selected a work for 30Q #72.
Let the games begin!

[Shapley]

Let us begin, again, indeed,
(say I, hiding my smirk).
With the questions let us proceed.
Does an orchestra perform this work?

As for the composer who penned the composition,
was he born 'ere the advent of steam navigation?
Within the Church did he hold a musical postion?
Did the Rhine River flow past his birth nation?

[Trumpetmaster]

Let us begin, again, indeed,
(say I, hiding my smirk).
With the questions let us proceed.
Does an orchestra perform this work?

As for the composer who penned the composition,
was he born 'ere the advent of steam navigation?
Within the Church did he hold a musical postion?
Did the Rhine River flow past his birth nation?

Shapley,
Can you be a bit more specific on the Steam Engine.
Don't want to steer you in the wrong direction...

See Below


Early industrial steam engines were designed by Thomas Savery (the "fire-engine", 1698) but it was Thomas Newcomen and his "atmospheric-engine" of 1712 that demonstrated the first operational and practical industrial engine. Together, Newcomen and Savery developed a beam engine that worked on the atmospheric, or vacuum, principle. The first industrial applications of the vacuum engines were in the pumping of water from deep mineshafts. In mineshaft pumps the reciprocating beam was connected to an operating rod that descended the shaft to a pump chamber. The oscillations of the operating rod are transferred to a pump piston that moves the water, through check valves, to the top of the shaft. Early Newcomen engines operated so slowly that the valves were manually opened and closed by an attendant. An improvement was the replacement of manual operation of the valves with an operation derived from the motion of the engine itself, by lengths of rope known as potter cord (Legend has it that this was first done in 1713 by a boy, Humphrey Potter, charged with opening the valves; when he grew bored and wanted to play with the other children he set up ropes to automate the process.)[4]

[Trumpetmaster]

#1 Does an orchestra perform this work?
YES

#2 Was the composer born before the advent of Steam Navigation?
Robert Fulton used the Watt steam engine to power the first
commercially
successful steamboat in 1807.
Composer born after 1807

#3 Did the composer hold a position in the church?
NO

#4 Does the Rhine River flow past the birth place of the composer?
YES

[navneeth]

Was the composer born after 1850?

Composed within 30 years of composer's birth?

Is there a part for a (instrumental) soloist/soloists?

If the answer is 'No' to the above question, is the composition a symphony?

[Trumpetmaster]

#1 Does an orchestra perform this work?
YES

#2 Was the composer born before the advent of Steam Navigation?
Robert Fulton used the Watt steam engine to power the first
commercially
successful steamboat in 1807.
Composer born after 1807
#3 Did the composer hold a position in the church?
NO

#4 Does the Rhine River flow past the birth place of the composer?
NO (correction)

#5 Was the composer born after 1850?
NO

#6 Was the work composed within 30 years of the composers Birth?
NO


#7 Is there a soloist/soloists?
YES

[navneeth]

Are there more than one solo instrument?

If NO, then is the instrument a stringed one?

[Trumpetmaster]

#1 Does an orchestra perform this work?
YES

#2 Was the composer born before the advent of Steam Navigation?
Robert Fulton used the Watt steam engine to power the first
commercially
successful steamboat in 1807.
Composer born after 1807

#3 Did the composer hold a position in the church?
NO

#4 Does the Rhine River flow past the birth place of the composer?
NO (correction)

#5 Was the composer born after 1850?
NO

#6 Was the work composed within 30 years of the composers Birth?
NO


#7 Is there a soloist/soloists?
YES

#8 Is there more than 1 solo instrument?
NO

#9 Is the instrument Stringed?
YES

[navneeth]

Is it a violin?

If yes, is the composer Mendelssohn, Brahms or Bruch?

[Trumpetmaster]

Please note...

Answer to Question 4 is NO....
my error....

The Rhine does not flow past the composers birthplace
so I will ignore question is composer Mendelsohn, Brahms, or bruch...

sorry...

Question #10
Is the solo instrument a violin?

NO

[Shapley]

I see you have found the solution
to your question about steamboat evolution.
However, is there any chance,
that the composer was born in France?

'Ere the composer from his life departed,
had the twentieth century started?
Composed in a major key,
could this composition be?

Let me ask, as I need to know:
Is the stringed instrument played with a bow?
To further help me solve this riddle,
is the instrument bigger than a fiddle?

[Trumpetmaster]

I see you have found the solution
to your question about steamboat evolution.
However, is there any chance,
that the composer was born in France?

Shapley, sorry... my error on Question #4 the answer is NO .
I have corrected the previous posts....
'Ere the composer from his life departed,
had the twentieth century started?
Composed in a major key,
could this composition be?

Let me ask, as I need to know:
Is the stringed instrument played with a bow?
To further help me solve this riddle,
is the instrument bigger than a fiddle?

[Trumpetmaster]

#1 Does an orchestra perform this work?
YES

#2 Was the composer born before the advent of Steam Navigation?
Robert Fulton used the Watt steam engine to power the first
commercially
successful steamboat in 1807.
Composer born after 1807

#3 Did the composer hold a position in the church?
NO

#4 Does the Rhine River flow past the birth place of the composer?
NO (correction)

#5 Was the composer born after 1850?
NO

#6 Was the work composed within 30 years of the composers Birth?
]NO


#7 Is there a soloist/soloists?
YES

#8 Is there more than 1 solo instrument?
NO

#9 Is the instrument Stringed?
YES

#10 Is the instrument a Violin?
NO

#11 Did the composer die before the start of the 20th century?
YES

#12 Is the work in a major key?
YES

#13 Is it a stringed instrument with a bow?
YES

#14 Is the instrument bigger than a fiddle?
YES

[Catmando]

Is the stringed instrument solo a cello?

[Trumpetmaster]

#15 Is the stringed instrument a Cello?

YES

[Catmando]

Is the composer Camille Saint-Saens or Antonin Dvorak?

[Trumpetmaster]

#16
Is the composer Camille Saint-Saens or Antonin Dvorak?

NO

[Catmando]

Is the composer Robert Schumann?

[navneeth]

If not Schumann, then Edouard Lalo?

[Trumpetmaster]

#17 Is the composer Robert Schumann?


NO

Please check the correction to question #4