The first of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs is named after this entity, and the last of Edvard Gr
The first of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs is named after this entity, and the last of Edvard Grieg's opus 43 is a lyric piece dedicated to this. Johann Strauss Jr. wrote a waltz for orchestra and solo soprano entitled "Voices of" this, and Jean Sibelius's Improvisation for Orchestra was subtitled "The Sadness of" this. Ludwig van Beethoven's fifth violin sonata is nicknamed this, and Frederick Delius used a clarinet to portray the title bird in his tone poem titled On Hearing the First Cuckoo in this. Schumann's (*) first symphony is nicknamed this, and riots broke out following the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of this. The first concerto in Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons is named after, for ten points, which season that is followed by summer?
The first of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs is named after this entity, and the last of Edvard Grieg's opus 43 is a lyric piece dedicated to this.
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