Johannes Brahms supposedly slept through a performance of this composer's poorly received piano sonata.
One of this composer's pieces begins with a descending G Phrygian scale marked sotto voce (soh-toh VO-chay), which is followed by a marcato theme played in the le᥸ hand that is revisited in the F-sharp-major Adagio sostenuto movement. In another of this composer's pieces, which was prepared in a De Profundis version by Ferruccio Busoni, a col legno ("coal" LANE-yo) in the strings represents the clattering of bones. Johannes Brahms supposedly slept through a performance of this composer's poorly received piano sonata. This man used repeated thirds to imitate a galloping horse in his Mazeppa, which can be found alongside his piece Feux Follets (foo foh-LAY) in a work of twelve compositions for solo piano. For 10 points, what 19th-century composer wrote Totentanz, the Piano Sonata in B Minor, and the Transcendental Études?
One of this composer's pieces begins with a descending G Phrygian scale marked sotto voce (soh-toh VO-chay), which is followed by a marcato theme played in the le᥸ hand that is revisited in the F-sharp-major Adagio sostenuto movement.
Franz Liszt [or Franz Joseph Liszt; or Liszt Ferencz; or Liszt Ferenc]