Another composer from this city wrote the opera The Pyramids of Babylon as well as a comic opera continuation of Mozart's The Magic Flute.
This city was home to a composer of four solo and double clarinet composers, Franz Tausch. Another composer from this city wrote the opera The Pyramids of Babylon as well as a comic opera continuation of Mozart's The Magic Flute. A piece named for a musical innovation from this city opens by quoting another composer's Symphony in E-flat; that 11-minute piece was written by John Corigliano for this city's orchestra. This city's namesake "crescendo" and "climax" were introduced by the father of its most famous composer, Johann Stamitz. The most famous musical idea named for this city appears as a "D-F-A-D-F-A" motif in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 and also names the ascending D-major scale that opens Mozart's Paris Symphony. More famously, that musical idea from this city begins the same composer's best known serenade. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik opens with, for 10 points, what city's namesake "rocket"?
This city was home to a composer of four solo and double clarinet composers, Franz Tausch.
Mannheim (accept Mannheim Rocket)