Beethoven’s WoO (“W-O-O”) 78 is a set of seven piano variations on this melody that is paired with a set of five variations on “Rule Britannia.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this melody that is the basis of “My Country, ’Tis of Thee” and the de facto national anthem of England.
ANSWER: “God Save the King” [or “God Save the Queen”]
[10m] This composer used “God Save the King” as the basis for his challenging Opus 9 set of variations. A theme beginning “long A, A A C B A, up to E” opens the 24th and last of a set of works for solo violin by this composer.
ANSWER: Niccolò Paganini
[10h] This American composer wrote a set of variations on “God Save the King” while visiting Geneva. This composer of the symphony A Night in the Tropics employed double variation form in Souvenir de Porto Rico.
ANSWER: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
<MY, Classical Music>