Obscure Composers 3: A third and final meditation on fame, obscurity and the meaning of life

"Wonderful compilation" -- Henry Fogel, Dean, Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University; former president, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra League"An enjoyable read, and a great conversation starter." -- James McCarthy, Limelight magazine, Australia"...for those seeking to shake up their listening habits and explore musical rarities -- Opera AmericaA sequel, volume three. Some 90 composers profiled.Provides answers to questions like those found in the Obscure Composers 3 Quiz:1. After his passing, some of his compositions were found as wrappings around rose bushes, and for meat in a butcher shop.2. In his time, this composer was also regarded as the ‘greatest oboe player.’3. The progenitor of the modern symphony.4. The progenitor of the modern piano concerto, wealthy and heralded in life, but died broke.5. He criticized Haydn as a “writer of little songs,” and a “fashion follower.”6. This eminent philosopher was first a composer.7. The teacher of Mozart, Beethoven, Hummel, and Moscheles.8. His eight piano concertos, and 96 operas!, were a direct influence on Mozart.9. His plays provided the basis for the most operas, 200.10. He came in second, his plays were made into 70 different operas.11. Name the four composers who developed 19th nationalist Hungarian music that held interest for Liszt, Bartók, Kodály and Weiner.12. This German romantic was so taken with Mozart he added one of his names to his own. His literary creations outstripped his compositions for fame.13. This 19th century female composer produced 49 opus numbers, including three symphonies and a nonet that helped her get a raise in her post as professor of piano, Paris Conservatory.14. What is a nonet?15. During his own time, he was a) a more popular opera composer than Verdi, and b) founder of the Vienna Philharmonic, and c) passed on much too young at 37, victim of a stroke.16. The greatest violin concerto that no one knows.17. His Symphony No. 7 In the Alps (1877) presaged and may have provided some influence o