Question

Despite its name, this work is [emphasize] not its composer’s final work, as he wrote and dedicated a piece that he called his “last rose” to the Moravian soprano Maria Jeritza (“HAIR-it-sa”) two months later. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this song cycle that quotes a motif from its composer’s tone poem Death and Transfiguration after the soprano sings its final words, “Is this, perhaps, death?”
ANSWER: Four Last Songs [or Vier Letzte Lieder]
[10e] This composer’s Four Last Songs describes how summer lingers on “by the roses” before “slowly it closes its large / eyes grown weary.” This composer also wrote Also Sprach Zarathustra.
ANSWER: Richard Strauss [prompt on Strauss]
[10m] Many composers have adapted Thomas Moore’s poem “The Last Rose of Summer” into pieces using this musical form. Robert Schumann exclaimed, “Hats off, gentlemen; a genius!” in response to one of these pieces by Frédéric Chopin for piano.
ANSWER: theme and variations [accept any answer containing variations]
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Syracuse+RochesterCornell MATLAB010010
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