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This composer rewrote the Gloria of one mass after reusing the melody of a contredanse from the final love duet of an earlier similarly-titled oratorio. A dark trumpet fanfare introduces the Kyrie (“KEE-ree-ay”) of a mass by this composer titled for “troubled times.” A soft (-5[1])pizzicato note in one of this composer’s oratorios precedes a fortissimo C (10[1])major chord on the word “light.” In (-5[1])a bass aria, this composer used a piccolo to depict a plowman whistling by quoting a melody (-5[1])from one of his symphonies consisting of the eighth notes [read slowly] “C, C, E, E, (10[1])G, (10[1])G, long E.” This composer of the oratorios The Seasons and The Creation wrote many masses while he was the Kapellmeister for the (-5[1])Esterházy family. For 10 points, name this “father of the (10[1])string quartet” who also wrote the “Farewell” and (10[1])“Surprise” (10[2])symphonies. ■END■

ANSWER: Franz Joseph Haydn
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