This piece’s Allemande is the longest one that its composer wrote for its instrument. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this piece whose manuscript explicitly states “for five strings.” That fifth string is helpful for reaching the G5s in this piece’s 12/8 (“twelve-eight”) Prelude.
ANSWER: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite No. 6 in D major [accept BWV 1012; prompt on cello suite; prompt on J. S. Bach’s cello suites]
[10e] This composer may have played a five-stringed cello in performances of his sonata “L’Imperatrice” (“leem-pay-rah-TREE-cheh”) One of this composer’s cello quintets includes his “celebrated minuet.”
ANSWER: Luigi Boccherini (“boh-keh-REE-nee”) [or Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini]
[10m] This other composer may have written his Cello Concerto in A major for a five-string cello. Fritz Kreisler wrote a popular cadenza for a different piece that this composer based on a satanic nightmare.
ANSWER: Giuseppe Tartini
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