Note to players: Two answers required. Embedded “short-short-short-long” rhythms in the opening fanfare of one of these two symphonies gives it the nickname “fate” shared by the main theme of the other of these symphonies. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two sequentially numbered cyclical symphonies in F minor and E minor that are peppered with rhythms echoing Beethoven’s Fifth. Between these two numbered symphonies, their composer wrote the more explicitly programmatic Manfred symphony.
ANSWER: Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies No. 4 AND 5 [accept answers indicating the Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 and Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 by Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky; prompt on partial answer]
[10m] Despite being based on a military tune, the solo for this instrument that opens Mahler’s Fifth symphony is often compared to the opening motif of Beethoven’s Fifth.
ANSWER: trumpet
[10e] Similarities like the underlying “short-short-short-long” rhythms in this composer’s first symphony led to its nickname of “Beethoven’s Tenth.” This composer incorporated a “lullaby” into the second of his four symphonies.
ANSWER: Johannes Brahms
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