Packet 10: Tossup 14

A song by this composer begins with a solo English horn playing the first two notes, then three, then four, of the ascending figure “B-flat, C, E-flat, long G.” In a song by this composer, divisi cellos double an English horn duet before a drummer-boy bids (15[1])the world “gute nacht” on his way to the gallows. (15[2])A movement by this composer begins with a children’s choir imitating bells (15[1])by (15[1])singing (15[2])“bimm, (15[1])bamm.” (15[1])This composer of “Der Tamboursg’sell” forbade performances of his song (*) “Liebst du um Schönheit.” In the (10[1])fourth of five movements in this composer’s second symphony, an alto sings a poem beginning (10[2])“O Red (10[1])Rose.” (10[4])This composer’s wife accused him of (10[1])“tempting Providence” by setting Friedrich Ruckert’s (10[1])Kindertotenlieder. (10[5])For 10 points, (10[1])what husband of Alma (10[1])Schindler (10[2])set the poem “Urlicht” in his Resurrection Symphony? ■END■ (10[2])

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