Previous posts for July 22nd are here: Bobby Sherman (2019) and Luigi Arditi (2020)
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Alan Menken (b. 22 July 1949) is an American composer, songwriter, conductor, music director, and record producer. He is best known for decades of Disney musicals.
Animated Complaint
Alan Menken, can you hear me?
I’ve consider it, and, dear me,
You and all that Disney crew
Have some penance still to do.
Can you right the awful wrongs
Of penning all those Princess songs.
All our children under ten
Know those ditties from your pen;
They listen once, then twice, and then,
Again, and then again, again.
Let me phrase this thing in clear terms,
Stop, please stop, those catchy earworms.
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Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766 – September 17, 1803) was an Austrian composer and conductor, remembered largely for his completion of the Mozart Requiem. NB. In fact, we do not know when he was born, but the site I use (mistakenly) lists him today, and he has to be celebrated sometime, so I went with it.
Or So the Story Goes…
"The widely repeated claim that, on his deathbed, Mozart dictated passages of the Requiem to his pupil Süssmayr is strongly discounted by Solomon, who notes that the earliest reference for this claim dates to 1856. However, Süssmayr's handwriting is in the original manuscript of the Requiem and Sophie Weber did claim to recall that Mozart gave instructions to Süssmayr. - Wikipedia, s.v. "Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
When Mozart, in agony, died,
Herr Süssmayr sat by his side,
And took down some notes
From that greatest of thoats…
Unless, of course, Süssmayr lied.
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