Round 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 the world “gute nacht” on his way to the gallows. A movement by this composer begins with a children’s choir imitating bells (15[1])by singing “bimm, (15[1])bamm.” This composer of “Der Tamboursg’sell” forbade performances of his song (*) “Liebst du um Schönheit.” In the fourth of five movements in this composer’s second symphony, an alto sings a poem beginning “O Red Rose.” This composer’s wife accused him of “tempting Providence” by setting Friedrich Ruckert’s Kindertotenlieder. For 10 points, what husband of Alma Schindler (10[1])set the poem “Urlicht” in his Resurrection Symphony? ■END■

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