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A slow chamber movement by this composer begins with the 2/4 melody (read slowly) “eighth notes B flat-D-D-B flat, quarter notes E-flat, D, C,” briefly switching to 3/4 in the third bar. This composer commemorated the violinist Ferdinand Laub with an E-flat minor Andante funebre movement in his third and final string quartet. A set of E major variations ends with the return of the theme from the (15[1])opening “Pezzo elegiaco” in this composer’s two-movement (*) Piano Trio in A Minor. This composer, who arranged his first string quartet’s Andante cantabile for cello and orchestra, was commemorated by Rachmaninoff’s second Trio élégiaque. This composer’s string sextet Souvenir de (10[1])Florence was written during a visit to Italy that (10[1])also produced his opera The Queen of Spades. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this Russian composer whose non-chamber works include Swan (10[2])Lake. ■END■

ANSWER: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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