surprise Issue 6 (2025-6)

Does everything named after musicians have anything to do with music?

#name_alsomatters

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Does everything named after musicians have anything to do with music?

We will never know whether any of the following musicians ever wished to have anything named after them, but that’s how history has put it. Apart from musical instruments wearing names of their creators (bandoneon after Heinrich Band, saxophone after Adolphe Sax, heckelphone after Wilhelm Heckel), there are specific phenomena strongly associated with some composers, conductors, and performers.

The phenomena can be beautiful, funny, or surprising, while they all demonstrate such "tributes" can greatly vary depending on what audience sees as the most extraordinary and curious fact about the person behind it.

Liszt effect

Spanish Rhapsody by F.Liszt

Follow the pianist’s hands and you will get the idea.😊