Question

Cécile Chaminade’s (“say-SEEL sha-mee-NAHD’s”) solo piano piece Lolita is also called an “Espagnol” (“ess-pang-YOL”) piece in this genre. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this musical genre whose Italian name refers to its quick, freeform character. The theme of an A minor piece in this genre is inverted in the 18th variation of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
ANSWER: caprices [or capriccios; accept Caprice Espagnol; accept 24 Caprices for Solo Violin]
[10e] Chaminade associated her composing style with this musical movement. Composers like Hector Berlioz are also part of this broad movement, which emphasized powerful emotions and followed after the Classical period.
ANSWER: Romantic period [or Romantic era or Romanticism or Romanticists]
[10h] This composer praised Chaminade after hearing her play her own pieces on the piano when she was eight. Pablo de Sarasate (“sa-ra-SAH-tay”) wrote a “fantasy” based on a work by this composer of two L’Arlésienne (“lar-lays-YEN”) suites.
ANSWER: Georges Bizet (“bee-ZAY”) [or Alexandre César Léopold Bizet] (Sarasate wrote the Carmen Fantasy, based on Bizet’s opera Carmen.)
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