Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" inspired the second movement of this composer's First Choral Symphony.
Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" inspired the second movement of this composer's First Choral Symphony. The use of a women's chorus in Debussy's Noctures probably inspired him to add that element to both the original last section of one work, whose form was inspired by Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra, and a lesser known chamber opera called Savitri. In 2000, composer Colin Matthews wrote a new movement for his best known work and dedicated it to his daughter Imogen. Originally that work was entitled Seven Pieces for Large Orchestra and its 1913 first section was completed a year prior to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand with the appropriate subtitle, "the Bringer of War." For 10 points-- who is this English composer of the Planets.
Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" inspired the second movement of this composer's First Choral Symphony.
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