Question
This composer’s Opus 18 and 36 string sextets have been credited with the revival of the genre in the late Romantic era. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer whose other innovatively-scored chamber works include an E-flat major horn trio as well as a quintet and two sonatas written for clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld.
ANSWER: Johannes Brahms
[10e] Among the most memorable Brahms-influenced string sextets is Transfigured Night, which is by this composer and founder of the Second Viennese School.
ANSWER: Arnold Schoenberg
[10h] Schoenberg’s orchestration of this Brahms chamber work includes a xylophone among its anachronistic percussion choices. This G minor piece’s finale is a challenging presto marked Rondo alla zingarese.
ANSWER: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 [or Brahms’s First Piano Quartet; accept Opus 25]
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