Answer the following about compositions inspired by their composers' experiences as ambulance drivers during World War I. For 10 points each:
[10e] This French composer's time as an ambulance driver during the war led him to dedicate each of the six movements of his Le Tombeau de Couperin (“COO-peh-ron”) to his friends who died on the battlefield.
ANSWER: Maurice Ravel [or Joseph-Maurice Ravel]
[10m] This symphony by Ralph (“RAYF”) Vaughan Williams includes a second-movement trumpet cadenza inspired by hearing a bugler playing a seventh instead of an octave. The fields of France are evoked in this successor to his A London Symphony.
ANSWER: Pastoral Symphony [or Symphony No. 3]
[10h] This teacher of Bohuslav Martinů (“MAHR-tee-noo”) was an ambulance driver on the Western Front, which may have inspired the sometimes discordant melodies of his ballet Bacchus et Ariadne. He wrote The Spider's Banquet a year before the war.
ANSWER: Albert Roussel [or Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel]
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