At its closing, this composer directed the Hamburg State Opera, which was the first company north of Italy to produce public operas. For 10 points each:
[10m] What godfather of C. P. E. Bach wrote a suite sometimes titled Hamburger Ebb und Fluth and a set of three “productions” meant to be played at meals?
ANSWER: Georg Philipp Telemann (The piece is Tafelmusik.)
[10e] Telemann’s Hamburger Ebb und Fluth suite is more typically given this title. Handel wrote three suites with this title that premiered on the River Thames.
ANSWER: Water Music [or Wassermusik]
[10h] The Hamburg-born composer Johann Mattheson is best known for an opera about this historical figure. A scene from a 19th-century opera titled for this person begins with 38 bars of alternating A-flat dominant seventh and D dominant seventh chords.
ANSWER: Boris Godunov [or Tsar Boris; or Boris Feodorovich Godunov; or Boris Goudenow; reject “Boris I”] (The second sentence describes the “Coronation Scene” from Modest Mussorgsky’s opera.)
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