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 by singing (15[1])“bimm, 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 set the poem “Urlicht” in his Resurrection Symphony? ■END■

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