Like Elgar, this man wrote a work based on the O'Shaughnessy poem "The Music Makers."
Like Elgar, this man wrote a work based on the O'Shaughnessy poem "The Music Makers." He wrote the motet Jesus and the Traders and seven songs for voice and piano called "Belated Melodies." His works for solo piano include "Twenty-Four Little Canons on the Black Keys" and a "Meditation on a Motif of Claude Debussy." Other works include a setting of Psalm 55 based on a translation by Veg, a set of variations based on a song about the delivery of prisoners by the title bird, and a work in which the title character is loved by Empress Marie Louise and that opens with a "musical sneeze." The creator of such works as the Dances of Galanta and the Peacock Variations, for 10 points name this man who wrote about the titular braggart's singlehanded defeat of the Napoleonic army, Hary Janos, and who collected Hungarian folk songs with Bartok.
Like Elgar, this man wrote a work based on the O'Shaughnessy poem "The Music Makers."
Zoltan {Kodaly}