Paging obscure cellist, Joseph Luptale, please come to the front desk....

December 1, 2006 7:21 AM

ObscureMusicFilter: I have a friend looking for albums by a cellist named Joseph Luptale.

His last name is spelled with an umlate over the "u".

Friend's s.o. is a big fan, but Google, Yahoo, AllMusic and Wiki all come up blank.

Help me, O hive mind!

posted by bullitt 5 to media & arts (5 comments total)

Maybe there is a typo in the name? I tried Lüptal, Lübtal, Lüptale, Lübtale, Lüptaler, Lübtaler, to no avail.

You can usually find most musicians on google thanks to concert programmes that end up online. When that isn't the case, you most often find at least one relative.

Is there anything more you know about the chap? Maybe references of albums?
posted by stereo at 8:08 AM on December 1, 2006

Sure it's not the Slovakian cellist, Jozef Lupták? He has a bit of press, several Google hits along with cello OR cellist, and is on a few album contributions like this one available Amazon. His name also comes up as Joseph, probably just as an Anglicization.
posted by mdevore at 8:57 AM on December 1, 2006

Thanks for your responses. I will inquire of my friend...
posted by bullitt 5 at 8:59 AM on December 1, 2006

Cellist located! Friend has confirmed Jozef Lupták is the person in question.

I love the Internet :)

Thanks for your work on this, guys!
posted by bullitt 5 at 11:44 AM on December 1, 2006

Also, friend is way, way excited to have found person in question. Nicely done!
posted by bullitt 5 at 11:45 AM on December 1, 2006