[Shaughnessy]

Bizet - Carmen (1875)
Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 2 (1868)
Smetana - Má vlast (1874 - 1879)

 

[Shaughnessy]

Puccini - La bohème (1893 - 1895)
Verdi - Otello (1887)
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (1865)

 

[Shaughnessy]

Beethoven - Fidelio - (1805)
Verdi - La traviata (1853)
Wagner - Parsifal (1882)

 

[Shaughnessy]

Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)
Rossini - The Barber of Seville (1816)
Wagner - Das Rheingold (1869)

 

[Shaughnessy]

Wagner - Siegfried ( 1871)
Verdi - Il trovatore (1853)
Puccini - Manon Lescaut (1893)

 

[Shaughnessy]

Bellini - Norma (1831)
Leoncavallo - Pagliacci (1892)
Verdi - Aida (1871)

 

[Shaughnessy]

Berlioz - Les Troyens (1858)
Rossini - Guillaume Tell (1829)
Verdi - Macbeth (1847)

 

[Shaughnessy]

I believe that this piece forms part of the Suite Española no. 1 that is already in the game.

The piece, which lasts around six minutes in performance, was originally written for the piano and set in the key of G minor. It was first published in Barcelona, by Juan Bta. Pujol & Co., in 1892 as the prelude of a three-movement set entitled Chants d'Espagne.

The name Asturias (Leyenda) was given to it posthumously by the German publisher Hofmeister, who included it in the 1911 "complete version" of the Suite española, although Albéniz never intended the piece for this suite. Despite the new name, this music is not considered suggestive of the folk music of the northern Spanish region of Asturias, but rather of Andalusian flamenco traditions (although the drama of the music is congruent with the landscape of the region of Asturias). Leyenda, Hofmeister's subtitle, means legend.

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[Shaughnessy]

Delibes - Lakmé (1883)
Massenet - Manon (1884)
Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana (1890)

 

[Shaughnessy]

In other words, what Shaughnessy quotes is only part of the story. Asturias (Leyenda) forms part of the suit española and the inclusion of Asturias as a separate piece after the whole suite was included in the game is not correct.

In other words, what Shaughnessy quotes is the only part of the story that really matters -

"The name Asturias (Leyenda) was given to it posthumously by the German publisher Hofmeister, who included it in the 1911 "complete version" of the Suite española, although Albéniz never intended the piece for this suite."

Thus, as per the expressed desire of the composer who actually wrote the work in question, as opposed to the completely arbitrary - almost capricious - actions of a German publisher who unilaterally altered the works of a Spanish composer against said composer's expressed intentions, Asturias (Leyenda) should not have been considered part of the suit española and thus the inclusion of Asturias as a separate piece after the whole suite was included in the game is correct.

However, Shaughnessy will graciously concede that a fluent speaker of Spanish of unknown origin has the edge on being able to copy and paste Wikipedia articles in Spanish with greater skill and dexterity than an English/Irish speaker born in Dublin, Ireland.

But that's just about all that I would be willing to concede.

 

[Shaughnessy]

I am not a Spaniard.

No need to apologize - I changed it to a "fluent speaker of Spanish of unknown origin" - If it wasn't for the Spanish, and based solely on temperament, I would have thought you were Irish...

 

[Shaughnessy]

# 291 - Bruckner - Symphony # 3 in D minor (1873 -1889)
# 292 - Donizetti - Don Pasquale (1843)
# 293 - Wagner - Lohengrin (1850)

Note: Wagner now has 10 selections and is ineligible for further selections as per OP's statement of intent.

Only 7 selections remain - again as per OP's statement of intent in post # 97.