For 10 points, name this creator of The Four Temperaments, The Inextinguishable, and the Sinfonia Expansiva, a Danish composer.
His last works were based on his religious readings and include the Three Motets and Twenty-Nine Preludes, an organ piece, as well as a modern reinterpretation of the toccata form called the Commotio. He claimed that some of his works promoted the "vegetative principle," as in the tone poem Saga Dream and the Helios overture. He declared his intent to abandon the innovations of his previous work by subtitling his sixth symphony the Sinfonia Semplice, and this man's second symphony includes a part dubbed "phlegmatic," as it assigns one movement to each of the medieval humors. For 10 points, name this creator of The Four Temperaments, The Inextinguishable, and the Sinfonia Expansiva, a Danish composer.
His last works were based on his religious readings and include the Three Motets and Twenty-Nine Preludes, an organ piece, as well as a modern reinterpretation of the toccata form called the Commotio.
Carl August {Nielsen}