Pieces by this composer make up Tai Murray’s debut recording, which Harmonia Mundi released in 2012. A single-movement sonata by this composer begins with a recitative (“reh-sit-uh-TEEV”)-like whole-tone scale that ascends three octaves as it grows louder and slightly faster. The slow movement of another of this composer’s sonatas is a set of six variations on a G-major sarabande theme whose last bar is in 5/4 (“five-four”). This composer intermixed the “Dies irae” with J. S. Bach’s E-major violin partita in the prelude of a sonata with movements titled “Malinconia,” “Danse des ombres” (“donce day ZOM-bruh”), “Les Furies,” and “Obsession.” Contemporaries like George Enescu and Jacques Thibaud (“tee-BOH”) were dedicatees of this composer’s six solo violin sonatas, while this composer was himself the dedicatee of the violin sonata by his compatriot César Franck (“say-zar FRONK”). For 10 points, name this violin virtuoso from Belgium. ■END■
ANSWER: Eugène Ysaÿe (“oo-ZHEN ee-ZYE”) [or Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe]
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