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During World War I, this pacifist composer wrote several elegiac pieces such as a Lament (for Catherine, age 9 “Lusitania” 1915) before turning away from his Edwardian style. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this English composer whose personality is represented by movements like “Aria Italiana” in a set of orchestral variations by his student Benjamin Britten.
ANSWER: Frank Bridge [accept Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge]
[10m] Frank Bridge’s best known suite, whose movements include “Moonlight” and “Storm,” introduced a 10-year-old Britten to modern music and bears striking similarity to this set of orchestral sections that Britten composed for the opera Peter Grimes.
ANSWER: Four Sea Interludes
[10e] Bridge wrote The Sea in 1911 at the coastal town of Eastbourne in Sussex, where six years earlier this French impressionist composer had finished his set of symphonic sketches La mer.
ANSWER: Claude Debussy [or Achille-Claude Debussy]
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Imperial ABristol001010
Cambridge AOxford C001010
Cambridge CEdinburgh0101020
Oxford BImperial B001010
Oxford AKCL001010
KielCambridge B001010
Durham ASheffield10101030
WarwickDurham B001010