For 10 points, name this Russo-French composer of the Symphony of Psalms who took a break from writing The Song of the Nightingale to pen the ballets The Firebird and The Rite of Spring.
The death of Alphonse Onnou prompted this man to compose his Elegy for solo viola. A second movement passacaglia gives the theme for the double fugue in the "Gigue" in his Septet, while "Excentrique" and "Cantique" sections mark his Three Pieces for String Quartet. This man is the subject of Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schonberger's book The Apollonian Clockwork, and Robert Craft saw a "chord of death" in the instrumental Postlude following the Libera Me in this man's last work. This composer of the Requiem Canticles was commissioned by Robert Woods Bliss to write his Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks". He also composed a work that opens setting the words "Exaudi orationem meam" to an E-minor triad. For 10 points, name this Russo-French composer of the Symphony of Psalms who took a break from writing The Song of the Nightingale to pen the ballets The Firebird and The Rite of Spring.
The death of Alphonse Onnou prompted this man to compose his Elegy for solo viola.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky