Question
Composer and piece required. This symphony’s 40-minute first movement marked Kräftig. Entschieden depicts the awakening of Pan and a Bacchic procession. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this D minor symphony finished in 1895. Its six movements typically take around 100 to 110 minutes to perform, making it the longest symphony in the standard repertoire.
ANSWER: Symphony No. 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler [or Mahler’s 3rd Symphony; or Mahler 3; prompt on partial answer]
[10m] Mahler called the fifth movement of his 3rd Symphony “What [these beings] Tell Me” before dropping the movement titles for publication. Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto was dedicated “to the memory of” one of these beings.
ANSWER: angels [or Engels]
[10e] The opening French horn theme of Mahler’s 3rd closely mimics a pattern in this other Romantic composer’s first symphony. This composer also wrote a famous namesake lullaby.
ANSWER: Johannes Brahms [accept “Brahms’s Lullaby”]
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