Question

This composer described their D minor string quartet as the “kind of thing that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death.” The scherzo movement of a symphony by this composer opens with the timpani playing a solo in the rhythm ‘long, [emphasise] long, long, short, short, long, long’, accompanied by pizzicato chords in the lower strings. It’s not Tchaikovsky, but that first symphony by this composer opens with a long (*) clarinet solo in E minor over a timpani roll. This composer, whose only mature period string quartet was ‘Voces intimae’, wrote (10[1])a C major seventh symphony in one movement. (10[1])The hymn tune (10[1])for ‘Be Still, My Soul’ is taken from a nationalistic tone poem by this composer that had to masquerade under alternative titles such as A Scandinavian Choral March. For 10 points, name this composer of Finlandia. ■END■

ANSWER: Jean Sibelius [or Johan Julius Christian Sibelius]
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Summary

2023 UMN COOT08/19/2023Y3100%0%0%100.33