Each member of the Emerson Quartet played two different parts while recording a piece this man wrote at age 16, his String (*) Octet.
This composer's final work was his sixth string quartet, written in memory of his recently deceased sister. Each member of the Emerson Quartet played two different parts while recording a piece this man wrote at age 16, his String (*) Octet. The soloist makes an unusually early entrance in his E minor violin concerto, and this composer's visit to Fingal's Cave inspired his Hebrides Overture. Another of his works includes a braying effect imitating the transfigured Bottom as well as a famous wedding march. For 10 points, name this Jewish-born composer of incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
This composer's final work was his sixth string quartet, written in memory of his recently deceased sister.
(Jakob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn(-Bartholdy)