This composer set a text by William Wennington beginning “Ah grief to think! Ah woe to name!” in an E-flat major canzonetta titled “La tiranna.” A song by this composer unexpectedly erupts into a vivacious Allegro molto as the singer describes flowers growing on the grave of a dead poet. The end of the first movement of Schumann’s Fantasy in C Major cadences with a quote of a song by this composer whose title translates as “Take, then, these songs.” This composer of Adelaide set six romantic poems by his friend Alois Isidor Jetteles in a work often described as the first song cycle, An die ferne Geliebte. This composer included a lengthy Credo concluding with a fugue in a D major scared vocal piece he dedicated to Archduke Rudolf of Austria. For 10 points, name this German composer who wrote an 1824 Missa solemnis. ■END■
ANSWER: Ludwig van Beethoven
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