When writing her Fantasia Fugata, Amy Beach took inspiration from this composer by placing her cat Hamlet on her piano to improvise a theme. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer who transcribed the subject of one of his 555 keyboard sonatas from an incident in which his cat Pulcinella walked across his harpsichord.
ANSWER: Domenico Scarlatti [or Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti; prompt on Scarlatti]
[10e] For his Old American Folk Songs, this composer wrote an original setting of the song “I Bought Me a Cat.” This composer of Rodeo included variations on “Simple Gifts” in his ballet Appalachian Spring.
ANSWER: Aaron Copland
[10h] This piece’s movement “Mi-a-ou” is not named for a cat, but is this piece’s eponymous young girl pronouncing her brother Raoul’s name. This suite for piano four-hands by Gabriel Fauré also includes a “Kitty-Valse.”
ANSWER: Dolly Suite
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