This composer's violin concerto begins with the soloist playing a long D over the piano's glissando G major chord.
This composer's violin concerto begins with the soloist playing a long D over the piano's glissando G major chord. This composer's only string quartet, Opus 11, includes a slow middle movement in B- flat minor that shifts between time signatures such as 4/2, 5/2, and 6/2. His violin concerto ends with a "Presto in moto perpetuo" movement, and his popular concert pieces include Medea's Dance of Vengeance and his overture to The School for Scandal. This composer's String Quartet had its middle movement arranged as a choral setting of the Agnus Dei, and as an orchestral setting that was broadcast at the announcements of the deaths of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. For 10 points, name this composer of Adagio for Strings.
This composer's violin concerto begins with the soloist playing a long D over the piano's glissando G major chord.
Samuel Barber [or Samuel Osborne Barber II]