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One of this composer's works intersperses the words of the gospel with the lyrics of Picander, including the aria "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani." This composer wrote six suites for unaccompanied cello in addition to the St. Matthew Passion. He wrote six concertos as a job application for Margrave Christian Ludwig. The composer of the Brandenburg Concertos, this man wrote a prelude and fugue in every major and minor key in another work. For 10 points, name this Baroque composer of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
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J S Bach
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This composer was given the task of improvising on a "Royal Theme" provided to him by a monarch, which eventually resulted in his piece The Musical Offering. The fifth part of another work by this composer contains a solo for virtuoso harpsichord. That work was written for the (*) margrave of a certain city. For 10 points, name this German composer whose works include the organ piece Toccata and Fugue in D minor, The Well-Tempered Clavier, and the Brandenburg Concertos
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J S Bach
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In one work by this composer, a solo viola da gamba accompanies an alto soloist singing "Es ist vollbracht." In his Hunting Cantata, a soprano soloist sings the aria "Sheep May Safely Graze." Schlendrian threatens to deny Lieschen a husband if she won't give up the title beverage in his Coffee Cantata. There is a "halo" effect in the strings whenever Jesus sings in another work of his, which was revived by Felix Mendelssohn in 1829. Another work had its Symbolum Nicenum section premiered by this composer's son, Carl Phillip Emanuel. For 10 points, name this composer of the Mass in B minor, St. Matthew Passion, and six Brandenburg Concertos.
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J S Bach
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This man's comical cantata "Be still, stop chattering" is often performed like an opera, and depicts the narrator's addiction to coffee. He used a musical phrase written by Frederick the Great for his Musical Offering. An ominous nine-note phrase opens his composition called Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor. His works include the Mass in B Minor and a collection of twenty-four preludes and fugues entitled The Well-Tempered Clavier. For 10 points, name this German Baroque composer of the Goldberg Variations and the Brandenburg Concertos.
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J S Bach
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The sixteenth of one of this composer's sets is a French overture, and every third piece in that set is a canon. This creator of the Goldberg Variations composed a work in which the string section creates a "halo" around Jesus's words. In addition to creating that work, he wrote a book of 24 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, The Well-Tempered Clavier. For 10 points, identify this Baroque composer of the St. Matthew Passion.
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J S Bach
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The original instrumentation of one of this composer's pieces called for three sections of twenty-four total oboes and two sections of twelve total bassoons, in addition to eighteen brass instruments and percussion. Snare drums underlie the fourth movement of a piece he wrote that contains sections "Paix" and "Rejouissance." A concert of one of his works was marred when a large bas relief of George II fell and caused mayhem. Another of his pieces, which contains the "Hornpipe" movement, was composed to be observed from the royal barge. For 10 points, name this composer of the Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music who wrote the "Hallelujah" chorus for his Messiah.
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Handel
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This composer reworked an instrumental sarabande into the aria Lascia ch'io planga. He called for improvised solo organ pieces to be placed ad libitum into the later of his organ concertos, a genre he invented to show off. The "Hailstone Chorus" appears in the first part of an oratorio by this man whose second part is "The Song of Moses"; that work is Israel in Egypt. One of this man's works includes a suite in G major that has a rigaudon, a minuet, and five shorter, unnamed pieces, as well as a suite in F major that begins with a (*) French overture. That piece was written to be played on barges floating on the River Thames for King George I. For 10 points, name this Baroque composer who wrote Water Music and the oratorio Messiah.
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Handel
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This man's Suite No. 5 in E Major for harpsichord includes a final movement known as "Air and Variations," commonly called "The Harmonious Blacksmith." This composer included the chorus "See, the Conqu'ring hero comes" in one work, and another piece by this man was created for the coronation of King George II and includes text from the first Book of Kings. In addition to Judas Maccabaeus and [*] Zadok the Priest, this man included a movement entitled "La Paix" before "La Rejouissance" in one work, and another includes the "Hallelujah Chorus." For 10 points, name this composer of Music for the Royal Fireworks, and the oratorio Messiah.
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Handel
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Johannes Brahms composed a work for solo piano entitled "Variations and a Fugue on a Theme by" this man, and in one of his works, a solo tenor sings "that her iniquity is pardoned" when addressing Jerusalem in "Comfort ye, my people." One of his works, now used at the [*] coronations of his nation's monarchs, is Zadok the Priest; this composer of The Harmonious Blacksmith included the Birth, the Passion, and the Aftermath in his most famous oratorio. For 10 points, name this German-born British composer of Water Music, whose Messiah features the "Hallelujah Chorus".
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Handel
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A love triangle develops between the two titular characters and the monstrous giant Polyphemus in this composer's Acis and Galatea. This composer created the character of Beauty, who is tempted into hedonism by Pleasure before being reasoned into modesty by Time and Enlightenment, in his oratorio The Triumph of Time and Truth. One of his orchestral works opens with a French overture and is divided into three sections: F major, D major, and G major which premiered when the king requested a concert on the River Thames. In one of his oratorios, the chorus' last two lines are "Blessing and honour, glory and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, forever and ever/Amen". FTP, name this German-born composer of Water Music and Messiah.
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Handel
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This composer wrote a violin piece titled "Music for the Chapel of the Pieta". This composer included a piece called "Suspicious" in a set of works dedicated to Charles VI, entitled The Lyre. A "spirituous non e presto" movement ends his La Stravaganza, and his other concertos include pieces titled "Proteus" and "Goldfinch", as well as a set of twelve collected in L'estro Armonico. This composer featured themes representing "drunkards that have fallen asleep" and a "barking dog" in sonnets that were written to accompany his best-known work, which appeared in The Contest Between Harmony and Invention. For 10 points, name this Italian composer who included "La Primavera" and "L'Autunno" in his The Four Seasons.
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Vivaldi
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This composer's operas include "The Coronation of Darius" and three works based on the work of Ludovico Ariosto, including Orlando Furioso. Seven basses sing "Et in Terra Pax" in this man's second Gloria, and his The [*] Contest between Harmony and Invention includes a set of violin concerti paired with sonnets, whose second movement ends like a thunderstorm in "L'Estate" and whose final staccato movement depicts icy rain in "L'Inverno". For 10 points, name this "Red Priest", the Italian Baroque composer of The Four Seasons.
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Vivaldi
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In one of this composer's operas, Zelim and Melindo are switched at birth by Mamud. The Opus No. 3 of this composer of Truth and Ordeal often features a solo cello, even though it is a set of twelve concerti for one, two, and four violins. His only surviving oratorio was inspired by the beheading of Holerfones. This composer of L'Estro Armanico and Judith Triumphant wrote a piece for solo violin and basso continuo that concerns "The Hunt," "Pleasure," and "The Sea Storm." His best-known works are contained in the larger work called The Contest Between Harmony and Invention. For 10 points, name this "Red Priest" whose contains The Four Seasons.
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Vivaldi
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This man's Opus 3 was a collection of twelve concertos for one, two, or four violins, titled L'Estro Armonico. He wrote three operas based on Orlando Furioso. His concertos for solo violin, including "The Sea Storm," "Pleasure," and "The Hunt," were included in The Contest between Harmony and Invention, the first four pieces of which were accompanied by sonnets describing a goatherd with a faithful dog, lightning and fierce thunder, and icy north winds. Master of violin at a girls' orphanage, he became known as the "Red Priest." For 10 points, name this Venetian composer of The Four Seasons.
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Vivaldi
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Ralph Kirkpatrick catalogued the complete works of one composer with this last name. Another composer with this last name established the allegro-adagio-allegro form of the Italian overture and was a key figure in the development of Neapolitan opera. A composer with this last name traveled to Portugal, where he became the music teacher of the future Spanish queen Maria Barbara, who inspired the creation of hundreds of single-movement binary works. That composer with this last name became famous after his death for his 555 keyboard sonatas. For 10 points, give this last name shared by the Baroque Italian composers Alessandro and Domenico.
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Scarlatti
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Ralph Kirkpatrick catalogued the complete works of one composer with this last name. Another composer with this last name established the allegro-adagio-allegro form of the Italian overture and was a key figure in the development of Neapolitan opera. A composer with this last name traveled to Portugal, where he became the music teacher of the future Spanish queen Maria Barbara, who inspired the creation of hundreds of single-movement binary works. That composer with this last name became famous after his death for his 555 keyboard sonatas. For 10 points, give this last name shared by the Baroque Italian composers Alessandro and Domenico.
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Scarlatti
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This man employed notes marked B sharp that ascend to a high A in the last aria of his cantata "Di Fille vendicarmi vorrei". He wrote an a cappella Mass in G minor, and in another work, the right hand stretches a full octave from high D to low D, before playing a D-E-G triplet. He taught such figures as Barbara of Portugal, a fact reflected in the Iberian influence seen in works like the Fandango in D minor. A "crux" was noted in several of his works by the man who catalogued him, Ralph (*) Kirkpatrick. For 10 points, identify this Italian composer of 555 sonatas, mainly for the harpsichord, the son of Alessandro.
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Domenico Scarlatti
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Johann Hasse's La Contadina premiered during a performance of an opera by one of these composers called Clitarco. Another of them wrote an aria that described the sun rising over the Ganges for his opera Honesty in Love's Affairs; that one also composed the St. Cecilia Mass and the opera Mitridate Eupatore. The catalogue of the works of another of these composers includes the Cat's Fugue and begins with the 30 Essercizi; that catalogue was collected by Ralph Kirkpatrick and contains 555 keyboard sonatas in total. For 10 points, identify this family of Italian Baroque composers that included the aforementioned Pietro, Alessandro, and Domenico.
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Scarlatti
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Johann Hasse's La Contadina premiered during a performance of an opera by one of these composers called Clitarco. Another of them wrote an aria that described the sun rising over the Ganges for his opera Honesty in Love's Affairs; that one also composed the St. Cecilia Mass and the opera Mitridate Eupatore. The catalogue of the works of another of these composers includes the Cat's Fugue and begins with the 30 Essercizi; that catalogue was collected by Ralph Kirkpatrick and contains 555 keyboard sonatas in total. For 10 points, identify this family of Italian Baroque composers that included the aforementioned Pietro, Alessandro, and Domenico.
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Scarlatti
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This composer set works by the poet Hermann Mueller in his song cycle Die schoene Muellerin and another cycle that ends with a musical depiction of a hurdy-gurdy man. This composer of Winterreise also wrote a "Little" and a "Great" C-major symphony. He used the song "Die Forelle" as the basis of his Piano Quintet in A Major. For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of the Trout Quintet who composed hundreds of Lieder in addition to his eighth, "Unfinished" symphony.
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Schubert
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Johann Hasse's La Contadina premiered during a performance of an opera by one of these composers called Clitarco. Another of them wrote an aria that described the sun rising over the Ganges for his opera Honesty in Love's Affairs; that one also composed the St. Cecilia Mass and the opera Mitridate Eupatore. The catalogue of the works of another of these composers includes the Cat's Fugue and begins with the 30 Essercizi; that catalogue was collected by Ralph Kirkpatrick and contains 555 keyboard sonatas in total. For 10 points, identify this family of Italian Baroque composers that included the aforementioned Pietro, Alessandro, and Domenico.
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Scarlatti
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This composer set works by the poet Hermann Mueller in his song cycle Die schoene Muellerin and another cycle that ends with a musical depiction of a hurdy-gurdy man. This composer of Winterreise also wrote a "Little" and a "Great" C-major symphony. He used the song "Die Forelle" as the basis of his Piano Quintet in A Major. For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of the Trout Quintet who composed hundreds of Lieder in addition to his eighth, "Unfinished" symphony.
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Schubert
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While serving as music tutor to the Esterhazy daughters, this man composed a C major sonata for piano four-hands which is known as his "Grand Duo." This man was unable to play his own "Wanderer Fantasy," and he substituted a double bass for one of the violins of the typical lineup for his Piano Quintet in A major. This composer's incidental music to Rosamunde has been suggested as a (*) conclusion to his eighth symphony. For 10 points, name this Romantic German composer of the "Trout Quintet" and the "Unfinished Symphony."
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Schubert
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This composer wrote one song about a man with numb fingers standing on ice, "The Hurdy Gurdy Man." Another of his songs opens with the piano playing triplet Gs at octaves and is about a boy being called to death by an Elf. This composer of the cycle of lieder Winter Journey also wrote the Trout Quintet. This man wrote a string quartet that has a set of variations on his song "Death and the Maiden." This composer of "The Erlking" wrote a symphony in B minor that ends after a sketch for its third movement, his eighth. For 10 points, name this composer of that "Unfinished Symphony."
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Schubert
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The aria "Vedrommi Intorno" is sung by the titular King of Crete in this man's opera Idomeneo. Another of his operas contains the aria "Ho capito, signor, si" and contains the character Leporello, the servant of a character who kills Donna Anna's father and is dragged to hell at the end of the opera. This man composed "The Queen of the Night Aria" for a well-known piece, and in yet another opera with music composed by him, Ferrando and Guglielmo try to seduce each other's wives; that opera is Cosi fan tutte ("TWO"-tee). For 10 points name this Austrian composer of the operas Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.
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Mozart
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The aria "Vedrommi Intorno" is sung by the titular King of Crete in this man's opera Idomeneo. Another of his operas contains the aria "Ho capito, signor, si" and contains the character Leporello, the servant of a character who kills Donna Anna's father and is dragged to hell at the end of the opera. This man composed "The Queen of the Night Aria" for a well-known piece, and in yet another opera with music composed by him, Ferrando and Guglielmo try to seduce each other's wives; that opera is Cosi fan tutte ("TWO"-tee). For 10 points name this Austrian composer of the operas Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.
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Mozart
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This man's fortieth symphony is sometimes known as the "Great G minor" symphony. He included a five-voice fugato at the end of the fourth movement of his Symphony number 41, or Jupiter symphony. This man's most commonly played piece is probably the serenade usually called "Eine kleine Nachtmusik." He died at the age of thirty five, leaving his Requiem uncompleted. For 10 points, name this Austrian composer known for his apocryphal rivalry with Salieri.
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Mozart
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This composer opened the fourth movement of his second minor-key symphony with a Mannheim Rocket. This composer of the Great G-minor Symphony wrote a well-loved C-minor Piano Concerto No. 24 and an A-major Clarinet Concerto. His wife Constanze lobbied Franz Sussmayer to complete this composer's Requiem. He composed the Prague and Jupiter symphonies, which are found in the Koechel catalog of his works. For 10 points, name this composer who wrote Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and variations on the melody that became Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
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Mozart
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In one opera by this man, the soldiers Ferrando and Guglielmo ("gool-YELL-mo") test their wives by seducing them in the guise of Albanians. This man also wrote an opera in which the title seducer is dragged to hell by the statue of Il Commendatore ("EEL co-MEN-dah-TORR-ee"). For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of the operas Cosi Fan Tutte ("CO-see fan TOO-tee") and Don Giovanni as well as A Little Night Music, who allegedly feuded with Salieri.
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Mozart
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Franz Sussmayr completed this composer's unfinished Requiem after his death. This composer of the "Jupiter" Symphony wrote an opera in which Leporello sings the Catalog Aria and whose title character goes to hell, Don Giovanni, as well as a work in which Tamino defeats the Queen of The Night, The Magic Flute. For 10 points, identify this Classical composer and child prodigy who wrote "Eine kleine Nachtmusik".
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Mozart
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Franz Sussmayr completed this composer's unfinished Requiem after his death. This composer of the "Jupiter" Symphony wrote an opera in which Leporello sings the Catalog Aria and whose title character goes to hell, Don Giovanni, as well as a work in which Tamino defeats the Queen of The Night, The Magic Flute. For 10 points, identify this Classical composer and child prodigy who wrote "Eine kleine Nachtmusik".
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Mozart
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One work by this composer may have been written for his love interest, Therese Malfatti, and is less commonly known as his Bagatelle in A Minor. Another work by this composer received its nickname from the poet Ludwig Rellstab, who was reminded by that piece of Lake Lucerne at night. A symphony by this man ends with voices singing the words to a Schiller poem, and is nicknamed "Choral." For 10 points, name this German composer of Fur Elise and the Moonlight Sonata, whose ninth symphony is set to the poem "Ode to Joy."
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Beethoven
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One of this composer's symphonies has a horn enter a recapitulation of the theme four bars before the rest of the orchestra, and that work's second movement is a funeral march. This composer wrote the "Waldstein" piano sonata and the "Kreutzer" violin sonata. One symphony by this composer opens with a G-G-G-E flat motif. One symphony he wrote sets the (*) Schiller poem "Ode to Joy" for chorus. For 10 points, name this composer of the Eroica symphony, whose 5th symphony has a "fate knocking at the door" theme, and who was deaf when he wrote his 9th.
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Beethoven
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This composer adopted the theme from the finale of his third symphony for a series of fifteen variations for piano in e-flat major. He was praised by Goethe for his incidental music to the play Egmont. This teacher of Carl Czerny included the movement "scene at the brook" in his sixth symphony. This man removed the dedication of his third symphony after Napoleon declared himself emperor. He set a Schiller poem in his "choral" or ninth symphony. For 10 points, name this Romantic German composer who wrote the Moonlight Sonata before going deaf.
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Beethoven
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This composer's Rondo a Capriccio was subtitled "The Rage over a Lost Penny." A theme from his earlier work Gegenliebe was incorporated into an Op. 80 work entitled Choral Fantasy. Another of his works, the Violin Sonata No. 9, is known as the Kreutzer Sonata, while one sonata by this man is subtitled "Quasi una fantasia," his "Moonlight" Sonata. For 10 points, name this composer who sought to portray fate knocking at the door in his Fifth Symphony and incorporated "Ode to Joy" in his Ninth Symphony.
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Beethoven
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One symphonic work by this composer was written for Johann Maelzel's "Panharmonicon," a mechanical contraption that could play military band instruments. Richard Wagner called this composer's frenetic seventh symphony the "apotheosis of the dance." One of his symphonies begins with a short-short-short-long motif that was dubbed "fate knocking on the door." His sixth and third symphonies are the Pastoral and Eroica. For 10 points, name this German composer, whose Choral Ninth Symphony contains a fourth-movement setting of "Ode to Joy."
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Beethoven
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One of this composer's oratorios follows the farmer Simon, who watches his daughter Hanne over the course of a year. This composer wrote twelve symphonies for Johann Peter Salomon. The six string quartets in his opus twenty, Sun Quartets, helped earn him the nickname "the father of the String Quartet." His ninety-fourth symphony takes its name from a (*) sudden fortissimo note on the timpani in the middle of the soft second movement, which was allegedly included to wake up sleeping members of the audience. For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of the Surprise Symphony
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Haydn
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This composer wrote a capriccio in G major called Acht Sauschneider mussen sein. This composer's twenty-fifth piano trio had a third movement in the Hungarian style, leading to its nickname, the "Gypsy Rondo." One of his last symphonies uses a theme from one of his concerti for lira organizzata punctuated by percussion outbursts, while another opens with a drum roll. One work by this composer has an andante second movement with consistent (*) staccato bassoons and plucked strings. He wrote a symphony in which players leave the stage after their parts end, and one named for a sforzando early in its second movement. For 10 points, name this composer of over 100 symphonies, including the "Clock," "Surprise," and "Farewell" symphonies
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Haydn
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This composer created such works as the six "Sun" and six "Erdody" string quartets. In the final adagio of one of his symphonies, the performers gradually leave the stage until two muted violins remain. Another symphony is notable for a sudden fortissimo chord in its andante second movement. For 10 points, identify this composer of the Creation oratorio and London Symphonies, which include ones nicknamed "Farewell" and "Surprise.
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Haydn
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This composer created such works as the six "Sun" and six "Erdody" string quartets. In the final adagio of one of his symphonies, the performers gradually leave the stage until two muted violins remain. Another symphony is notable for a sudden fortissimo chord in its andante second movement. For 10 points, identify this composer of the Creation oratorio and London Symphonies, which include ones nicknamed "Farewell" and "Surprise.
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Haydn
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This composer was commissioned by Hieronimo Graf von Colloredo to write six duos for viola and violin, of which he only finished four due to illness. This man wrote incredibly high notes for trumpet, surpassing those even for the flute, in his difficult Trumpet Concerto in C Major. His better-known choral works include six Te Deums, the Missa in Honorem Sanctae Ursulae, and the Missa Hispanica, as well as a work composed on the death of Archbishop (*) Sigismund von Schrattenbach, his Missa pro defunctis. He was aided in writing two duets for the court of Salzburg by another composer, who was accidentally given credit for his 25th symphony. For 10 points, identify this Austrian composer who was a huge influence on Mozart, the brother of the king of the string quartet, Joseph.
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Haydn
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This composer created such works as the six "Sun" and six "Erdody" string quartets. In the final adagio of one of his symphonies, the performers gradually leave the stage until two muted violins remain. Another symphony is notable for a sudden fortissimo chord in its andante second movement. For 10 points, identify this composer of the Creation oratorio and London Symphonies, which include ones nicknamed "Farewell" and "Surprise.
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Haydn
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This composer was commissioned by Hieronimo Graf von Colloredo to write six duos for viola and violin, of which he only finished four due to illness. This man wrote incredibly high notes for trumpet, surpassing those even for the flute, in his difficult Trumpet Concerto in C Major. His better-known choral works include six Te Deums, the Missa in Honorem Sanctae Ursulae, and the Missa Hispanica, as well as a work composed on the death of Archbishop (*) Sigismund von Schrattenbach, his Missa pro defunctis. He was aided in writing two duets for the court of Salzburg by another composer, who was accidentally given credit for his 25th symphony. For 10 points, identify this Austrian composer who was a huge influence on Mozart, the brother of the king of the string quartet, Joseph.
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Haydn
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One of his masses is notable for the timpani part and is entitled "Mass in Time of War." He spent much of his career with the Esterhazy family, for whom he wrote the Morning, Noon, and Evening symphonies. Later in his career, he composed the oratorio "The Seasons" in response to an earlier oratorio based on the Book of Genesis, "The Creation." During his lifetime, he composed 104 symphonies, the last twelve of which were written in a certain European capital and include "The Miracle" and "The Surprise" symphonies. Often credited with inventing the forms of symphony, concerto, string quartet, and sonata, for 10 points, name this Austrian composer of the London Symphonies.
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Haydn
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The dissonant minor second intervals of this composer's fifth etude led to its nickname, "Wrong Note." This composer's Opus twenty-eight preludes include one nicknamed "Raindrop." His piano works include his Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, as well as the "Military" and "Heroic" (*) polonaises (pol-uh-NEYZ-ess). He composed many mazurkas inspired by dances from his home country, and carried on a ten-year relationship with George Sand. For 10 points, name this man who was inspired by the November Uprising to compose his "Revolutionary" etude (EY-tood), a Polish pianist and composer from the first hald of the nineteenth century.
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Chopin
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The dissonant minor second intervals of this composer's fifth etude led to its nickname, "Wrong Note." This composer's Opus twenty-eight preludes include one nicknamed "Raindrop." His piano works include his Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, as well as the "Military" and "Heroic" (*) polonaises (pol-uh-NEYZ-ess). He composed many mazurkas inspired by dances from his home country, and carried on a ten-year relationship with George Sand. For 10 points, name this man who was inspired by the November Uprising to compose his "Revolutionary" etude (EY-tood), a Polish pianist and composer from the first hald of the nineteenth century.
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Chopin
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An E-minor composition by this man uses minor second intervals to produce dissonant "wrong note" sounds. He composed a G-flat major work in which the right hand plays arpeggios consisting almost entirely of sharps and flats. This composer of the Black Key Etude wrote a work that was compared to a dog chasing its tail. He honored his home nation by writing a solo piano work that venerates the November Uprising. For 10 points, name this composer of the Revolutionary Etude and the "Minute Waltz," a prolific writer of nocturnes and polonaises from Poland.
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Chopin
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The dissonant minor second intervals of this composer's fifth etude led to its nickname, "Wrong Note." This composer's Opus twenty-eight preludes include one nicknamed "Raindrop." His piano works include his Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, as well as the "Military" and "Heroic" (*) polonaises (pol-uh-NEYZ-ess). He composed many mazurkas inspired by dances from his home country, and carried on a ten-year relationship with George Sand. For 10 points, name this man who was inspired by the November Uprising to compose his "Revolutionary" etude (EY-tood), a Polish pianist and composer from the first hald of the nineteenth century.
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Chopin
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An E-minor composition by this man uses minor second intervals to produce dissonant "wrong note" sounds. He composed a G-flat major work in which the right hand plays arpeggios consisting almost entirely of sharps and flats. This composer of the Black Key Etude wrote a work that was compared to a dog chasing its tail. He honored his home nation by writing a solo piano work that venerates the November Uprising. For 10 points, name this composer of the Revolutionary Etude and the "Minute Waltz," a prolific writer of nocturnes and polonaises from Poland.
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Chopin
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One of this composer's works features only sixteen measures of the second theme in the dominant key of D-flat major and, except for measure sixty-six, is played only using the black keys of the piano. One of his works, sometimes called "The Shepherd Boy," got another nickname from Robert Schumann. This composer wrote pieces subtitled "Aeolian Harp," "Winterwind," and "Tristesse." This composer tried to depict a dog chasing its tail in a piece that oddly takes about ninety seconds to play titled The Minute Waltz. For 10 points, name this piano virtuoso who wrote The Revolutionary Etude and many mazurkas and polonaises
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Chopin
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The dissonant minor second intervals of this composer's fifth etude led to its nickname, "Wrong Note." This composer's Opus twenty-eight preludes include one nicknamed "Raindrop." His piano works include his Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, as well as the "Military" and "Heroic" (*) polonaises (pol-uh-NEYZ-ess). He composed many mazurkas inspired by dances from his home country, and carried on a ten-year relationship with George Sand. For 10 points, name this man who was inspired by the November Uprising to compose his "Revolutionary" etude (EY-tood), a Polish pianist and composer from the first hald of the nineteenth century.
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Chopin
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An E-minor composition by this man uses minor second intervals to produce dissonant "wrong note" sounds. He composed a G-flat major work in which the right hand plays arpeggios consisting almost entirely of sharps and flats. This composer of the Black Key Etude wrote a work that was compared to a dog chasing its tail. He honored his home nation by writing a solo piano work that venerates the November Uprising. For 10 points, name this composer of the Revolutionary Etude and the "Minute Waltz," a prolific writer of nocturnes and polonaises from Poland.
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Chopin
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One of this composer's works features only sixteen measures of the second theme in the dominant key of D-flat major and, except for measure sixty-six, is played only using the black keys of the piano. One of his works, sometimes called "The Shepherd Boy," got another nickname from Robert Schumann. This composer wrote pieces subtitled "Aeolian Harp," "Winterwind," and "Tristesse." This composer tried to depict a dog chasing its tail in a piece that oddly takes about ninety seconds to play titled The Minute Waltz. For 10 points, name this piano virtuoso who wrote The Revolutionary Etude and many mazurkas and polonaises
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Chopin
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The third movement of this composer's second piano sonata in B-flat minor contains an often-performed funeral march. This composer popularized a musical form developed by John Field with his short piano nocturnes, and wrote an etude played only on black keys. This Romantic composer predominantly composed pieces for the piano such as the Heroic Polonaise, the Fantasie-Improptu in C sharp minor, and the Revolutionary Etude. For 10 points, name this nineteenth century Polish composer of the Minute Waltz.
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Chopin
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The dissonant minor second intervals of this composer's fifth etude led to its nickname, "Wrong Note." This composer's Opus twenty-eight preludes include one nicknamed "Raindrop." His piano works include his Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, as well as the "Military" and "Heroic" (*) polonaises (pol-uh-NEYZ-ess). He composed many mazurkas inspired by dances from his home country, and carried on a ten-year relationship with George Sand. For 10 points, name this man who was inspired by the November Uprising to compose his "Revolutionary" etude (EY-tood), a Polish pianist and composer from the first hald of the nineteenth century.
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Chopin
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An E-minor composition by this man uses minor second intervals to produce dissonant "wrong note" sounds. He composed a G-flat major work in which the right hand plays arpeggios consisting almost entirely of sharps and flats. This composer of the Black Key Etude wrote a work that was compared to a dog chasing its tail. He honored his home nation by writing a solo piano work that venerates the November Uprising. For 10 points, name this composer of the Revolutionary Etude and the "Minute Waltz," a prolific writer of nocturnes and polonaises from Poland.
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Chopin
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One of this composer's works features only sixteen measures of the second theme in the dominant key of D-flat major and, except for measure sixty-six, is played only using the black keys of the piano. One of his works, sometimes called "The Shepherd Boy," got another nickname from Robert Schumann. This composer wrote pieces subtitled "Aeolian Harp," "Winterwind," and "Tristesse." This composer tried to depict a dog chasing its tail in a piece that oddly takes about ninety seconds to play titled The Minute Waltz. For 10 points, name this piano virtuoso who wrote The Revolutionary Etude and many mazurkas and polonaises
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Chopin
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The third movement of this composer's second piano sonata in B-flat minor contains an often-performed funeral march. This composer popularized a musical form developed by John Field with his short piano nocturnes, and wrote an etude played only on black keys. This Romantic composer predominantly composed pieces for the piano such as the Heroic Polonaise, the Fantasie-Improptu in C sharp minor, and the Revolutionary Etude. For 10 points, name this nineteenth century Polish composer of the Minute Waltz.
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Chopin
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This man composed a Grand Duo for piano and cello based on Meyerbeer's opera Robert the Devil, and eight of this man's works make up the Mikhael Folkine ballet blanc "Les Sylphides," and another work contains three repetitions of a D-flat Major melody interrupted by one in C sharp minor and is entitled "Raindrop," This man's second piano sonata alludes to Beethoven's 32nd sonata and is nicknamed "Funeral March," and the left hand rapidly plays a sequence of harmonic minor scales in "Revolutionary Etude." Most famous for his preludes and nocturnes, for 10 points, identify this Polish-French composer of the "Minute Waltz."
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Chopin
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This composer included an allegretto quasi menuetto second movement in his 1st Sonata for Cello and used stanzas from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter for his Alto Rhapsody. This creator of Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel wrote a first symphony sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." He used the text of Luther's translation of the Bible for a choral work written after the death of his mother, the (*) German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture, and a famous Lullaby.
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Brahms
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This composer included an allegretto quasi menuetto second movement in his 1st Sonata for Cello and used stanzas from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter for his Alto Rhapsody. This creator of Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel wrote a first symphony sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." He used the text of Luther's translation of the Bible for a choral work written after the death of his mother, the (*) German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture, and a famous Lullaby.
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Brahms
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One of this man's compositions is sometimes called Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale as it is unclear if Haydn composed the central theme. He wrote a D-minor work as a dramatic companion to another work which reworked various student drinking songs. This composer of the Tragic Overture and (*) Academic Festival Overture wrote a first symphony which evoked Beethoven, and used the Luther Bible rather than Latin for his German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of a famous lullaby.
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Brahms
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This composer included an allegretto quasi menuetto second movement in his 1st Sonata for Cello and used stanzas from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter for his Alto Rhapsody. This creator of Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel wrote a first symphony sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." He used the text of Luther's translation of the Bible for a choral work written after the death of his mother, the (*) German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture, and a famous Lullaby.
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Brahms
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One of this man's compositions is sometimes called Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale as it is unclear if Haydn composed the central theme. He wrote a D-minor work as a dramatic companion to another work which reworked various student drinking songs. This composer of the Tragic Overture and (*) Academic Festival Overture wrote a first symphony which evoked Beethoven, and used the Luther Bible rather than Latin for his German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of a famous lullaby.
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Brahms
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Like Rachmaninoff, he used the twenty-fourth caprice for his Variations on a Theme of Paganini. He used the drinking song "Gaudeamus Igitur" (GOW-day-ey-mus EE-gih-tour) as the basis for a work written upon receiving an honorary degree from Breslau, his Academic Festival Overture. This longtime friend of Clara Schumann composed a (*) German Requiem seven years before premiering a symphony nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this German composer, who also wrote a notable lullaby.
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Brahms
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This composer included an allegretto quasi menuetto second movement in his 1st Sonata for Cello and used stanzas from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter for his Alto Rhapsody. This creator of Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel wrote a first symphony sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." He used the text of Luther's translation of the Bible for a choral work written after the death of his mother, the (*) German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture, and a famous Lullaby.
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Brahms
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One of this man's compositions is sometimes called Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale as it is unclear if Haydn composed the central theme. He wrote a D-minor work as a dramatic companion to another work which reworked various student drinking songs. This composer of the Tragic Overture and (*) Academic Festival Overture wrote a first symphony which evoked Beethoven, and used the Luther Bible rather than Latin for his German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of a famous lullaby.
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Brahms
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Like Rachmaninoff, he used the twenty-fourth caprice for his Variations on a Theme of Paganini. He used the drinking song "Gaudeamus Igitur" (GOW-day-ey-mus EE-gih-tour) as the basis for a work written upon receiving an honorary degree from Breslau, his Academic Festival Overture. This longtime friend of Clara Schumann composed a (*) German Requiem seven years before premiering a symphony nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this German composer, who also wrote a notable lullaby.
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Brahms
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This composer's reputation improved dramatically after Arthur Schoenberg wrote an essay championing his music as progressive. This illness of Clara Schumann inspired this composer's Four Serious songs. He included student songs such as "We Have Built a Stately House" and "Gaudeamus Igitur" in a piece this man composed upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau. That work is this composer's Academic Festival Overture. For 10 points, name this composer of the German Requiem, who is grouped with Bach and Beethoven as the "three B's."
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Brahms
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This composer included an allegretto quasi menuetto second movement in his 1st Sonata for Cello and used stanzas from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter for his Alto Rhapsody. This creator of Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel wrote a first symphony sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." He used the text of Luther's translation of the Bible for a choral work written after the death of his mother, the (*) German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture, and a famous Lullaby.
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Brahms
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One of this man's compositions is sometimes called Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale as it is unclear if Haydn composed the central theme. He wrote a D-minor work as a dramatic companion to another work which reworked various student drinking songs. This composer of the Tragic Overture and (*) Academic Festival Overture wrote a first symphony which evoked Beethoven, and used the Luther Bible rather than Latin for his German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of a famous lullaby.
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Brahms
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Like Rachmaninoff, he used the twenty-fourth caprice for his Variations on a Theme of Paganini. He used the drinking song "Gaudeamus Igitur" (GOW-day-ey-mus EE-gih-tour) as the basis for a work written upon receiving an honorary degree from Breslau, his Academic Festival Overture. This longtime friend of Clara Schumann composed a (*) German Requiem seven years before premiering a symphony nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this German composer, who also wrote a notable lullaby.
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Brahms
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This composer's reputation improved dramatically after Arthur Schoenberg wrote an essay championing his music as progressive. This illness of Clara Schumann inspired this composer's Four Serious songs. He included student songs such as "We Have Built a Stately House" and "Gaudeamus Igitur" in a piece this man composed upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau. That work is this composer's Academic Festival Overture. For 10 points, name this composer of the German Requiem, who is grouped with Bach and Beethoven as the "three B's."
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Brahms
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This composer used themes by Haydn, Handel, and Paganini as basis for sets of variations, a form that he first ported to the orchestra as an independent piece with no soloist. The oboe is prominent in the second movement of his D-major violin concerto. He wrote a set of twenty-one dances, originally for piano four hands, including a fifth entry based on a csardas of Keler Bela. He used the text of the Luther Bible to compose a piece inspired by the death of his mother and the attempted suicide of Robert Schumann. His first symphony is sometimes dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this composer who wrote A German Requiem and the Hungarian Dances.
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Brahms
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This composer included an allegretto quasi menuetto second movement in his 1st Sonata for Cello and used stanzas from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter for his Alto Rhapsody. This creator of Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel wrote a first symphony sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." He used the text of Luther's translation of the Bible for a choral work written after the death of his mother, the (*) German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture, and a famous Lullaby.
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Brahms
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One of this man's compositions is sometimes called Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale as it is unclear if Haydn composed the central theme. He wrote a D-minor work as a dramatic companion to another work which reworked various student drinking songs. This composer of the Tragic Overture and (*) Academic Festival Overture wrote a first symphony which evoked Beethoven, and used the Luther Bible rather than Latin for his German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of a famous lullaby.
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Brahms
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Like Rachmaninoff, he used the twenty-fourth caprice for his Variations on a Theme of Paganini. He used the drinking song "Gaudeamus Igitur" (GOW-day-ey-mus EE-gih-tour) as the basis for a work written upon receiving an honorary degree from Breslau, his Academic Festival Overture. This longtime friend of Clara Schumann composed a (*) German Requiem seven years before premiering a symphony nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this German composer, who also wrote a notable lullaby.
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Brahms
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This composer's reputation improved dramatically after Arthur Schoenberg wrote an essay championing his music as progressive. This illness of Clara Schumann inspired this composer's Four Serious songs. He included student songs such as "We Have Built a Stately House" and "Gaudeamus Igitur" in a piece this man composed upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau. That work is this composer's Academic Festival Overture. For 10 points, name this composer of the German Requiem, who is grouped with Bach and Beethoven as the "three B's."
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Brahms
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This composer used themes by Haydn, Handel, and Paganini as basis for sets of variations, a form that he first ported to the orchestra as an independent piece with no soloist. The oboe is prominent in the second movement of his D-major violin concerto. He wrote a set of twenty-one dances, originally for piano four hands, including a fifth entry based on a csardas of Keler Bela. He used the text of the Luther Bible to compose a piece inspired by the death of his mother and the attempted suicide of Robert Schumann. His first symphony is sometimes dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this composer who wrote A German Requiem and the Hungarian Dances.
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Brahms
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This composer used an unusual structure for his Sonata for cello and piano, which begins with a "Prologue" and features the cello imitating the lute Pierrot uses to sing to the moon. One pieces opens with rising parallel fifths, inspired by the Javanese gamelan and evokes an underwater building near the Island of Ys. He quoted the Scottish folk song "Keel Row" in the "Gigues" section of his musical triptych Images, and included the pieces "The Submerged Cathedral" and "Footsteps in the Snow" in his Preludes. This composer wrote a tone poem with sections about the "dialogue between the wind" and the title entity, and the third section of his Suite Bergamasque takes its title from a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, name this French Impressionist composer who wrote "Clair de Lune" and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
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Debussy
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This composer included an allegretto quasi menuetto second movement in his 1st Sonata for Cello and used stanzas from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter for his Alto Rhapsody. This creator of Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel wrote a first symphony sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." He used the text of Luther's translation of the Bible for a choral work written after the death of his mother, the (*) German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture, and a famous Lullaby.
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Brahms
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One of this man's compositions is sometimes called Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale as it is unclear if Haydn composed the central theme. He wrote a D-minor work as a dramatic companion to another work which reworked various student drinking songs. This composer of the Tragic Overture and (*) Academic Festival Overture wrote a first symphony which evoked Beethoven, and used the Luther Bible rather than Latin for his German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of a famous lullaby.
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Brahms
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Like Rachmaninoff, he used the twenty-fourth caprice for his Variations on a Theme of Paganini. He used the drinking song "Gaudeamus Igitur" (GOW-day-ey-mus EE-gih-tour) as the basis for a work written upon receiving an honorary degree from Breslau, his Academic Festival Overture. This longtime friend of Clara Schumann composed a (*) German Requiem seven years before premiering a symphony nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this German composer, who also wrote a notable lullaby.
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Brahms
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This composer's reputation improved dramatically after Arthur Schoenberg wrote an essay championing his music as progressive. This illness of Clara Schumann inspired this composer's Four Serious songs. He included student songs such as "We Have Built a Stately House" and "Gaudeamus Igitur" in a piece this man composed upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau. That work is this composer's Academic Festival Overture. For 10 points, name this composer of the German Requiem, who is grouped with Bach and Beethoven as the "three B's."
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Brahms
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This composer used themes by Haydn, Handel, and Paganini as basis for sets of variations, a form that he first ported to the orchestra as an independent piece with no soloist. The oboe is prominent in the second movement of his D-major violin concerto. He wrote a set of twenty-one dances, originally for piano four hands, including a fifth entry based on a csardas of Keler Bela. He used the text of the Luther Bible to compose a piece inspired by the death of his mother and the attempted suicide of Robert Schumann. His first symphony is sometimes dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this composer who wrote A German Requiem and the Hungarian Dances.
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Brahms
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This composer used an unusual structure for his Sonata for cello and piano, which begins with a "Prologue" and features the cello imitating the lute Pierrot uses to sing to the moon. One pieces opens with rising parallel fifths, inspired by the Javanese gamelan and evokes an underwater building near the Island of Ys. He quoted the Scottish folk song "Keel Row" in the "Gigues" section of his musical triptych Images, and included the pieces "The Submerged Cathedral" and "Footsteps in the Snow" in his Preludes. This composer wrote a tone poem with sections about the "dialogue between the wind" and the title entity, and the third section of his Suite Bergamasque takes its title from a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, name this French Impressionist composer who wrote "Clair de Lune" and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
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Debussy
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He used parallel chords, or "planing", in a piano work inspired by the myth of Ys, his prelude "The Sunken Cathedral". He parodied Clementi and Wagner in a set of piano pieces which opens with "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" and was written for his daughter. Another piano work by this composer ends with a passepied, but is most famous for a D-flat major third movement inspired by a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, the Children's Corner suite was written by this French Impressionist whose Suite bergamesque includes "Clair de lune".
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Debussy
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This composer included an allegretto quasi menuetto second movement in his 1st Sonata for Cello and used stanzas from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter for his Alto Rhapsody. This creator of Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel wrote a first symphony sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." He used the text of Luther's translation of the Bible for a choral work written after the death of his mother, the (*) German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture, and a famous Lullaby.
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Brahms
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One of this man's compositions is sometimes called Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale as it is unclear if Haydn composed the central theme. He wrote a D-minor work as a dramatic companion to another work which reworked various student drinking songs. This composer of the Tragic Overture and (*) Academic Festival Overture wrote a first symphony which evoked Beethoven, and used the Luther Bible rather than Latin for his German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of a famous lullaby.
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Brahms
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Like Rachmaninoff, he used the twenty-fourth caprice for his Variations on a Theme of Paganini. He used the drinking song "Gaudeamus Igitur" (GOW-day-ey-mus EE-gih-tour) as the basis for a work written upon receiving an honorary degree from Breslau, his Academic Festival Overture. This longtime friend of Clara Schumann composed a (*) German Requiem seven years before premiering a symphony nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this German composer, who also wrote a notable lullaby.
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Brahms
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This composer's reputation improved dramatically after Arthur Schoenberg wrote an essay championing his music as progressive. This illness of Clara Schumann inspired this composer's Four Serious songs. He included student songs such as "We Have Built a Stately House" and "Gaudeamus Igitur" in a piece this man composed upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau. That work is this composer's Academic Festival Overture. For 10 points, name this composer of the German Requiem, who is grouped with Bach and Beethoven as the "three B's."
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Brahms
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This composer used themes by Haydn, Handel, and Paganini as basis for sets of variations, a form that he first ported to the orchestra as an independent piece with no soloist. The oboe is prominent in the second movement of his D-major violin concerto. He wrote a set of twenty-one dances, originally for piano four hands, including a fifth entry based on a csardas of Keler Bela. He used the text of the Luther Bible to compose a piece inspired by the death of his mother and the attempted suicide of Robert Schumann. His first symphony is sometimes dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this composer who wrote A German Requiem and the Hungarian Dances.
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Brahms
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This composer used an unusual structure for his Sonata for cello and piano, which begins with a "Prologue" and features the cello imitating the lute Pierrot uses to sing to the moon. One pieces opens with rising parallel fifths, inspired by the Javanese gamelan and evokes an underwater building near the Island of Ys. He quoted the Scottish folk song "Keel Row" in the "Gigues" section of his musical triptych Images, and included the pieces "The Submerged Cathedral" and "Footsteps in the Snow" in his Preludes. This composer wrote a tone poem with sections about the "dialogue between the wind" and the title entity, and the third section of his Suite Bergamasque takes its title from a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, name this French Impressionist composer who wrote "Clair de Lune" and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
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Debussy
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He used parallel chords, or "planing", in a piano work inspired by the myth of Ys, his prelude "The Sunken Cathedral". He parodied Clementi and Wagner in a set of piano pieces which opens with "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" and was written for his daughter. Another piano work by this composer ends with a passepied, but is most famous for a D-flat major third movement inspired by a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, the Children's Corner suite was written by this French Impressionist whose Suite bergamesque includes "Clair de lune".
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Debussy
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In the second movement of one of this composer's works, a passage evoking La Marseillaise succeeds the Lutheran hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." That work, In Black and White, was composed at roughly the same time as his Cello Sonata. A flute solo represents the title character in his setting of the Mallarme poem (*) Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn. "Play of the Waves" is the title of the second movement of his symphony La Mer. For 10 points, name this French composer whose Suite Bergamesque includes the song "Claire de Lune."
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Debussy
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This composer included an allegretto quasi menuetto second movement in his 1st Sonata for Cello and used stanzas from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter for his Alto Rhapsody. This creator of Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel wrote a first symphony sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." He used the text of Luther's translation of the Bible for a choral work written after the death of his mother, the (*) German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture, and a famous Lullaby.
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Brahms
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One of this man's compositions is sometimes called Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale as it is unclear if Haydn composed the central theme. He wrote a D-minor work as a dramatic companion to another work which reworked various student drinking songs. This composer of the Tragic Overture and (*) Academic Festival Overture wrote a first symphony which evoked Beethoven, and used the Luther Bible rather than Latin for his German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of a famous lullaby.
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Brahms
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Like Rachmaninoff, he used the twenty-fourth caprice for his Variations on a Theme of Paganini. He used the drinking song "Gaudeamus Igitur" (GOW-day-ey-mus EE-gih-tour) as the basis for a work written upon receiving an honorary degree from Breslau, his Academic Festival Overture. This longtime friend of Clara Schumann composed a (*) German Requiem seven years before premiering a symphony nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this German composer, who also wrote a notable lullaby.
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Brahms
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This composer's reputation improved dramatically after Arthur Schoenberg wrote an essay championing his music as progressive. This illness of Clara Schumann inspired this composer's Four Serious songs. He included student songs such as "We Have Built a Stately House" and "Gaudeamus Igitur" in a piece this man composed upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau. That work is this composer's Academic Festival Overture. For 10 points, name this composer of the German Requiem, who is grouped with Bach and Beethoven as the "three B's."
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Brahms
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This composer used themes by Haydn, Handel, and Paganini as basis for sets of variations, a form that he first ported to the orchestra as an independent piece with no soloist. The oboe is prominent in the second movement of his D-major violin concerto. He wrote a set of twenty-one dances, originally for piano four hands, including a fifth entry based on a csardas of Keler Bela. He used the text of the Luther Bible to compose a piece inspired by the death of his mother and the attempted suicide of Robert Schumann. His first symphony is sometimes dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this composer who wrote A German Requiem and the Hungarian Dances.
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Brahms
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This composer used an unusual structure for his Sonata for cello and piano, which begins with a "Prologue" and features the cello imitating the lute Pierrot uses to sing to the moon. One pieces opens with rising parallel fifths, inspired by the Javanese gamelan and evokes an underwater building near the Island of Ys. He quoted the Scottish folk song "Keel Row" in the "Gigues" section of his musical triptych Images, and included the pieces "The Submerged Cathedral" and "Footsteps in the Snow" in his Preludes. This composer wrote a tone poem with sections about the "dialogue between the wind" and the title entity, and the third section of his Suite Bergamasque takes its title from a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, name this French Impressionist composer who wrote "Clair de Lune" and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
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Debussy
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He used parallel chords, or "planing", in a piano work inspired by the myth of Ys, his prelude "The Sunken Cathedral". He parodied Clementi and Wagner in a set of piano pieces which opens with "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" and was written for his daughter. Another piano work by this composer ends with a passepied, but is most famous for a D-flat major third movement inspired by a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, the Children's Corner suite was written by this French Impressionist whose Suite bergamesque includes "Clair de lune".
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Debussy
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In the second movement of one of this composer's works, a passage evoking La Marseillaise succeeds the Lutheran hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." That work, In Black and White, was composed at roughly the same time as his Cello Sonata. A flute solo represents the title character in his setting of the Mallarme poem (*) Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn. "Play of the Waves" is the title of the second movement of his symphony La Mer. For 10 points, name this French composer whose Suite Bergamesque includes the song "Claire de Lune."
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Debussy
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This composer parodied Richard Wagner's "Tristan chord" in a ragtime-inspired movement of a piece meant to evoke childhood. He used a flute solo to open a piece inspired by the frolicking of a Stephen Mallarme (MAH-lar-may) title character. This composer of the Children's Corner also wrote the opera (*) Pelleas and Melisande and a work that depicts the "play of the waves." For 10 points, name French impressionist composer who wrote La Mer and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
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Debussy
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This composer included an allegretto quasi menuetto second movement in his 1st Sonata for Cello and used stanzas from Goethe's Harzreise im Winter for his Alto Rhapsody. This creator of Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel wrote a first symphony sometimes called "Beethoven's Tenth." He used the text of Luther's translation of the Bible for a choral work written after the death of his mother, the (*) German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture, and a famous Lullaby.
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Brahms
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One of this man's compositions is sometimes called Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale as it is unclear if Haydn composed the central theme. He wrote a D-minor work as a dramatic companion to another work which reworked various student drinking songs. This composer of the Tragic Overture and (*) Academic Festival Overture wrote a first symphony which evoked Beethoven, and used the Luther Bible rather than Latin for his German Requiem. For 10 points, name this German composer of a famous lullaby.
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Brahms
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Like Rachmaninoff, he used the twenty-fourth caprice for his Variations on a Theme of Paganini. He used the drinking song "Gaudeamus Igitur" (GOW-day-ey-mus EE-gih-tour) as the basis for a work written upon receiving an honorary degree from Breslau, his Academic Festival Overture. This longtime friend of Clara Schumann composed a (*) German Requiem seven years before premiering a symphony nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this German composer, who also wrote a notable lullaby.
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Brahms
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This composer's reputation improved dramatically after Arthur Schoenberg wrote an essay championing his music as progressive. This illness of Clara Schumann inspired this composer's Four Serious songs. He included student songs such as "We Have Built a Stately House" and "Gaudeamus Igitur" in a piece this man composed upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau. That work is this composer's Academic Festival Overture. For 10 points, name this composer of the German Requiem, who is grouped with Bach and Beethoven as the "three B's."
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Brahms
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This composer used themes by Haydn, Handel, and Paganini as basis for sets of variations, a form that he first ported to the orchestra as an independent piece with no soloist. The oboe is prominent in the second movement of his D-major violin concerto. He wrote a set of twenty-one dances, originally for piano four hands, including a fifth entry based on a csardas of Keler Bela. He used the text of the Luther Bible to compose a piece inspired by the death of his mother and the attempted suicide of Robert Schumann. His first symphony is sometimes dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points, name this composer who wrote A German Requiem and the Hungarian Dances.
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Brahms
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This composer used an unusual structure for his Sonata for cello and piano, which begins with a "Prologue" and features the cello imitating the lute Pierrot uses to sing to the moon. One pieces opens with rising parallel fifths, inspired by the Javanese gamelan and evokes an underwater building near the Island of Ys. He quoted the Scottish folk song "Keel Row" in the "Gigues" section of his musical triptych Images, and included the pieces "The Submerged Cathedral" and "Footsteps in the Snow" in his Preludes. This composer wrote a tone poem with sections about the "dialogue between the wind" and the title entity, and the third section of his Suite Bergamasque takes its title from a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, name this French Impressionist composer who wrote "Clair de Lune" and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
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Debussy
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He used parallel chords, or "planing", in a piano work inspired by the myth of Ys, his prelude "The Sunken Cathedral". He parodied Clementi and Wagner in a set of piano pieces which opens with "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" and was written for his daughter. Another piano work by this composer ends with a passepied, but is most famous for a D-flat major third movement inspired by a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, the Children's Corner suite was written by this French Impressionist whose Suite bergamesque includes "Clair de lune".
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Debussy
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In the second movement of one of this composer's works, a passage evoking La Marseillaise succeeds the Lutheran hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." That work, In Black and White, was composed at roughly the same time as his Cello Sonata. A flute solo represents the title character in his setting of the Mallarme poem (*) Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn. "Play of the Waves" is the title of the second movement of his symphony La Mer. For 10 points, name this French composer whose Suite Bergamesque includes the song "Claire de Lune."
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Debussy
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This composer parodied Richard Wagner's "Tristan chord" in a ragtime-inspired movement of a piece meant to evoke childhood. He used a flute solo to open a piece inspired by the frolicking of a Stephen Mallarme (MAH-lar-may) title character. This composer of the Children's Corner also wrote the opera (*) Pelleas and Melisande and a work that depicts the "play of the waves." For 10 points, name French impressionist composer who wrote La Mer and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
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Debussy
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This man outlined the remaining orchestration of one of his ballets before leaving for Russia to Andre Caplet, a friend who often helped finish his works. This composer of The Toy Box wrote a suite for his daughter Chou-Chou with sections named "Doctor Gradus and Parnassum" and "Golliwog's Cakewalk." This composer adapted a Stephane Mallarme work into a successful symphonic poem. One of his pieces is part of his larger Suite Bergamasque. For 10 points, name this French composer of Children's Corner, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and "Clair de lune."
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Debussy
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