Re: British given names

R H Draney wrote:

Peter Tan filted:

Indeed, but in the 1950s and 1960s, first names were habitually
anglicised. I've even seen John Sebastian Bach, and certainly Peter
Tchaikovsky. And in an English-speaking context, you'd need to be very
brave to use a name that would raise eyebrows and is mispronounced
all the time.

I wonder how far you'd take that...people allatime used to joke about the
opera composer "Joe Green"...but "Lewis Beethoven"

I believe he sometimes went by "Louis" during his lifetime, as did Spohr.

or "George
Stravinsky"?...(does English even *have* an equivalent of
"Wolfgang"?)...

Not as far as I know, but German has an equivalent of Amadeus, namely
Gottlieb.

and leaving the field of music, how about the famous
Mexican painter "Jim Rivera"?...r

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