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The musicologist Gerald Abraham has suggested that Claude Debussy drew inspiration for his String Quartet from this composer’s only surviving complete string quartet, whose last movement is a G minor Saltarello. A B minor piece by this composer is sometimes performed with a choir entering after the violins play off beat F-sharp trills on the words “Slay him! The Christian's son has bewitched…” A suite by this composer concludes with a solo violin and viola with string orchestra accompaniment in its (*) “Rigaudon” fifth movement. This composer wrote a “suite (-5[1])in olden style” to celebrate the playwright Ludvig Holberg. (10[2])A solo timpani roll opens this composer’s A minor Piano Concerto. The sections “Morning Mood” and “In the Hall of the Mountain (10[1])King” appear in, for 10 points, what Norwegian composer’s Peer Gynt Suite? ■END■

ANSWER: Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg
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