Question
Answer the following about compositions inspired by their composers' experiences as ambulance drivers during World War I. For 10 points each:
[10e] This French composer's time as an ambulance driver during the war led him to dedicate each of the six movements of his Le Tombeau de Couperin (“COO-peh-ron”) to his friends who died on the battlefield.
ANSWER: Maurice Ravel [or Joseph-Maurice Ravel]
[10m] This symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams includes a second-movement trumpet cadenza inspired by hearing a bugler playing a seventh instead of an octave. The fields of France are evoked in this successor to his A London Symphony.
ANSWER: Pastoral Symphony [or Symphony No. 3]
[10h] This teacher of Bohuslav Martinů, was an ambulance driver on the Western Front, which may have inspired the sometimes discordant melodies of his ballet Bacchus et Ariadne. He wrote The Spider's Banquet a year before the war.
ANSWER: Albert Roussel [or Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel]
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