The first movement of this piece opens with the violins playing a descending F-sharp minor arpeggio. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this symphony whose final movement consists of a Presto section followed by a long Adagio coda in which the musicians snuff out candles as they drop out of the orchestra.
ANSWER: Farewell Symphony [accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, Haydn’s Symphony No. 45; prompt on partial answers]
[10e] This composer wrote the Farewell Symphony to convince his patron, Prince Esterházy, to allow his musicians to return home. Other symphonies by this composer include London and Surprise.
ANSWER: Joseph Haydn [or Franz Joseph Haydn]
[10h] After the first oboe and second horn, this instrument is the next to leave in the final movement of Haydn’s Farewell Symphony. Thaddäus von Dürnitz may have been the dedicatee of Mozart’s only surviving concerto for this instrument, which is in B-flat major.
ANSWER: bassoon [or fagotto]
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