The horns play octaves to break from a piano and timpani duet at the beginning of this composer's first concerto.
The horns play octaves to break from a piano and timpani duet at the beginning of this composer's first concerto. G-sharp and C-sharp are added to a pantomime chord that is modified throughout "The Chase," the final piece in a suite by this composer. A xylophone solo in one of his compositions exemplifies his style of "night music." This composer of Music for Strings, Percussion, and (*) Celesta used the "intermezzo interrotto" fourth movement of one piece to parody the "invasion theme" from the Leningrad Symphony; that work is better known for featuring sets of two instruments playing together in its second movement "Game of Pairs." This composer of Concerto for Orchestra arranged 153 piano pieces in order of difficulty for another collection. For 10 points, name this Hungarian composer of Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Mikrokosmos.
The horns play octaves to break from a piano and timpani duet at the beginning of this composer's first concerto.
Béla Bartók