When asked if she understands a work by this person, a character asks, “Who could?” and “Why should one?” This person titles a story in which a “stinging frenzy” breaks a thirty-year “inconceivable silence of the plains” for a woman who cries quietly and says, “I don't want to go!” at the end (15[1])of the central event. In another story, Gabriele’s (15[1])tuberculosis worsens after she plays a work by this (*) composer (10[1])for Detlev Spinell. This composer’s influence (10[1])on authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois (10[1])and Charles Baudelaire is (10[1])discussed in an Alex Ross book titled for him. (10[2]-5[1])Aunt (10[2])Georgiana visits (10[2])from Nebraska and attends a matinee of this composer’s music (10[1])in a Willa Cather story. This composer of an (-5[1])opera based on an epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach also wrote (10[1])the antisemitic (-5[1])essay (10[4])“Jewishness in Music.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this composer who inspired Thomas Mann’s story “Tristan.” (10[1])■END■ (10[1])