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Composer and genre required. A melody from the second of these pieces was reworked into a song whose speaker asks a lover to visit “before the thrush sings in the wood,” which sets a poem by Hermann Lingg and is the second of its composer’s Opus 105, his Five Songs. The second of these pieces opens with an unaccompanied French horn call, (10[1])and has a heavy second-movement scherzo that its (10[1])composer ironically called a “tiny wisp.” (10[2])Before a performance (10[1])of the first of these pieces, (10[1])the question “who is the boss: (10[1])the soloist or the conductor?” was (10[1])posed (10[1])by (10[2])Leonard Bernstein, referring to the slow tempo choice (-5[2])of Glenn Gould. (-5[1])These two pieces are in D minor (-5[1])and B-flat (10[1])major, and were written with encouragement from the composer’s mentor Clara Schumann. For 10 points, name these pieces for keyboard and orchestra by the composer of A German Requiem. ■END■ (10[8])

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