Answer the following about violin concertos written in the overused key of D major, for 10 points each.
[10e] The poor reception of this composer’s D major violin concerto led its dedicatee to turn his violin upside down and improvise at its premiere. The D major “Ode to Joy” was included in this composer’s ninth symphony.
ANSWER: Ludwig van Beethoven
[10m] Emile Sauret wrote a fiendishly difficult cadenza for this composer’s D major first violin concerto. The final movement of this composer’s second violin concerto was reworked into Franz Liszt’s etude “La Campanella.”
ANSWER: Niccolo Paganini
[10h] This composer used a quirky scherzo marked “Vivacissimo” in his D major first violin concerto. This composer used the same key for a symphony whose classical imitations include a third movement “Gavotte.”
ANSWER: Sergei Prokofiev [or Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev]
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