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What's the longest name in music?
We think this chap, born #OnThisDay in 1812, might be the winner.
He was a well-known figure in London musical life in the mid 19th-century.
His full name was: Louis George Maurice Adolphe Roche Albert Abel Antonio Alexandre Noë Jean Lucien...
We think this chap, born #OnThisDay in 1812, might be the winner.
He was a well-known figure in London musical life in the mid 19th-century.
His full name was: Louis George Maurice Adolphe Roche Albert Abel Antonio Alexandre Noë Jean Lucien...
...Daniel Eugène Joseph-le-brun Joseph-Barême Thomas Thomas Thomas-Thomas Pierre Arbon Pierre-Maurel Barthélemi Artus Alphonse Bertrand Dieudonné Emanuel Josué Vincent Luc Michel Jules-de-la-plane Jules-Bazin Julio César Jullien.
Or Louis-Antoine Jullien for short!
Or Louis-Antoine Jullien for short!
His full name came about after his father Antoine had asked members of an orchestra to volunteer as his infant’s godfather. They all volunteered, so he was baptised with all their names!
Louis-Antoine Jullien seems to have been something of a character and showman, if this depiction of him standing astride a cannon, from a ‘Gun Polka’ sheet music dedicated to him, is anything to go by.
He achieved great successes, helping to spotlight some important British singers during his time in London. Sadly he was later hit by severe financial losses, often due to the lavish nature of his productions. He was imprisoned for debt in 1859, and died in an asylum in 1860…
...but he was fondly recalled by The Musical World: ‘he elicited at first the unconscious attention, and then the enthusiastic appreciation, of the vast multitudes that besieged his concerts, and that not merely in London but all over the provinces of Great Britain and Ireland.’
