This composer included a polacca and a minuet in a set of five “country dances” for violin and piano. At age nine, this composer wrote an entirely pizzicato duo for violin and cello titled Water Droplets. This composer used a question-and-answer motif in the violin and cello to open a five-movement string quartet in D minor, which concludes with a furious folk dance. During his nearly thirty-year retirement, this composer made a string orchestra and timpani orchestration of his Andante festivo for string quartet. A piece by this composer depicts a sick woman who dances more and more energetically before Death arrives at her door. This composer vowed to give up drinking in 1908, a year before the publication of his Voces intimae quartet. This composer published two extracts from music for the play Kuolema as a “Scene with Cranes” and a “Valse Triste.” For 10 points, name this composer of Finlandia. ■END■
ANSWER: Jean Sibelius [or Johan Julius Christian Sibelius]
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