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Spelling of Handel's original name

Grove's Dictionary Of Music And Musicians gives Händel's original name as Georg Friederich Händel, and that should be the most reliable source. 193.65.105.175 11:33, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mail

Guess what? Cheers, Moreschi ^Talk 21:45, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blast, sometimes it's a bit slow. You may just have to wait. I've a sent a combination of the various ones I sent earlier via the Wikipedia email function, that may be quicker. Cheers, Moreschi ^Talk 21:57, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied in duplicate. Cheers, Moreschi ^Talk 14:32, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied, the reply is slightly more urgent. Cheers, Moreschi ^Talk 20:25, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Berlioz

Sure, no problem - Jay 01:12, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing 2

Hello,

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing 2. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing 2/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pigsonthewing 2/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, David Mestel^(Talk) 21:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Opera genre?

Hey Folantin, I was curious whether you knew anything about what a componimento dramatico is, exactly? I'm trying to figure out whether I can call Maria Margherita Grimani's Pallade e Marte an "opera", since according to the New Historical Anthology of Music by Women it may or may not have been staged, but Grove calls it an opera without any more explanation aside from the genre. Mak (talk) 20:29, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is, indeed, a bit confusing. Someone else calls it an "opus dramaticum", which is once again just a "dramatic work". I've saved the article now, so you may be able to learn a tiny bit about Grimani. She may have been related to Handel's librettist, which is interesting. There are a lot of unknowns, though. Mak (talk) 20:49, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

... for your comments on the assessment drive thread. Every time someone else chimes in, each one of our little group of heretics feels a little less alone. I don't know if it has happened to you yet, but when you spend a couple days writing an article, compiling everything available from several sources, using one's specialist knowledge to put it all together into a coherent whole, and one of those "taggers" tears by and sprays a graffiti "START CLASS" on it, it feels rather like being vandalised. And then when someone objects, and removes the graffiti, they're threatened with admin action. Maybe I'm overreacting, but this "drive" bugs me a lot. Best wishes, Antandrus (talk) 17:07, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]