Composer and genre required. A melody from the second of these pieces was reworked into a song whose speaker asks a lover to visit “before the thrush sings in the wood,” which sets a poem by Hermann Lingg and is the second of its composer’s Opus 105, his Five Songs. The second of these pieces opens with an unaccompanied French horn call, and has a heavy second-movement scherzo that its composer ironically called a “tiny wisp.” Before a performance of the first of these pieces, the question “who is the boss: the soloist or the conductor?” was posed by Leonard Bernstein, referring to the slow tempo choice of Glenn Gould. These two pieces are in D minor and B-flat major, and were written with encouragement from the composer’s mentor Clara Schumann. For 10 points, name these pieces for keyboard and orchestra by the composer of A German Requiem. ■END■
ANSWER: piano concertos by Johannes Brahms [prompt on concertos or concerti in place of “piano concertos”]
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