Previous posts for August 31st are here: Alma Mahler (2019), Joseph Schillinger (2020), Alan Jay Lerner (2021), and Amilcare Ponchielli (2022)
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Albert Riemenschneider (31 August 1878 – 20 July 950) was an American musician and Bach scholar.
Wie schön leuchtet
One sometimes can improve morale
By reading through a Bach chorale,
And when you do, thank Riemenschneider,
For acting as the hymns’ provider
By collecting them (it was a chore)
In one convenient Schirmer score.
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Johann Paul Aegidius Martin (31 August 1741 – 14 February 1816) was a French composer of German birth best known today for "Paisir d'amour,." Plaisir d'amour," on which the 1961 Elvis Presley pop standard "Can't Help Falling in Love" is based.
Can’t Help Falling
The melodies for Elvis Presley's "Can't Help falling in Love" (1961) and the 20th century Christian hymn "My God Loves Me" are based on Martin's "Plaisir d'amour". -- Wikipedia, s.v. "Plaisir d'amour"
Let’s hope that the outcome would hearten
Old John Paul Aegidius Martin,
If he heard Elvis croon
The “Plaisirs d’amour” tune,
Which he’d put so much feeling and art in.
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