The "30 years" movement of Charles Alkan's Grande Sonata is named after this subject.
The "30 years" movement of Charles Alkan's Grande Sonata is named after this subject. The fourth movement of Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel alludes to this subject as a brief comic relief. Although it's not part of Songs and Dances of Death, Modest Mussorgsky wrote a song that was inspired by this subject for soprano voice, although it is now mostly sung by bass. The opening theme of another work inspired by this subject contains the (*) first published example of twelve tone row in Western music. The composer of that work later added a "Chorus Mysticus" section to its finale, which also shares its name with the finale of Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand. For 10 points, name this German legend in which a scholar makes a deal with the devil in exchange for unlimited knowledge.
The "30 years" movement of Charles Alkan's Grande Sonata is named after this subject.
Damnation of Faust [or Doctor Faustus; or redemption of Faust; accept anything that indicates that it’s the Faust mythos; antiprompt on Gretchen or Mephistopeles]