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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 (10[1])soft (10[1])pizzicato (10[1])note in one of this composer’s oratorios precedes a fortissimo C major chord (10[1])on the word “light.” (10[1])In a (10[1])bass aria, this composer used a piccolo to depict a plowman whistling by quoting a melody from one of his symphonies consisting of the eighth notes [read slowly] “C, C, E, E, G, G, (10[1])long E.” This composer of the oratorios (-5[1])The Seasons and The Creation wrote (10[2])many masses while he was the Kapellmeister for the Esterházy family. For 10 points, name this “father of the string quartet” who also wrote the “Farewell” and “Surprise” symphonies. ■END■

ANSWER: Franz Joseph Haydn
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