This composer wrote an opera based on a Henrik Hertz play named Iolanta. Another of his operas features a "Letter aria" and centers on the daughters of Madame Larina. His final completed symphony refe
This composer wrote an opera based on a Henrik Hertz play named Iolanta. Another of his operas features a "Letter aria" and centers on the daughters of Madame Larina. His final completed symphony references the Orthodox requiem and includes a limping waltz in 5/4. A more famous composition by this composer of Symphony (*) Pathetique ends with the hymn "God Save the Tsar" after suppressing the anthem "La Marseillaise," which represents Napoleon's attack on Russia. For ten points, name this Russian composer who showed the death of Lensky in his opera Eugene Onegin and used cannon fire in his 1812 Overture.
This composer wrote an opera based on a Henrik Hertz play named Iolanta.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky