FOREIGN MUSICIANS' NAMES ANGLICISED
-Artists frequently choose foreign names because they are more striking. and we remember the names of foreign composers easily for this same reason. When some of the latter are translated into English, however, they do not seem nearly so striking and they are in fact, often quite common names in their own country. Ouiseppe Verdi becomes in English, Joseph Green, Wagner becomes Cartwrighl, Bach 'becomes Brook, and Weber, Weaver. Some names are less common when translated. and while Strauss, or Si rails, is one of the commonest mimes in Germany, its translation is Nosegay, which is quite unknown here. Handel means trade of commerce; Haydn, heather, and Himrnel, heaven ; Loewo is Lion ; Cheruhini :i little cherub; Rossini the small red one; Schumann, shoe man, presumably the, cobbler; Sehoiiberg, beautiful mountain : Tito Mnlte.i was simply Timothy Matthews, or be- would have been had lie been an Englishman with an English name.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 16 July 1929, Page 2
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