The scherzo of this composerâs first violin concerto begins with the soloist giving octave downbeats to accompany a quick 3/8 melody in the flute and bass clarinet.
The scherzo of this composerâs first violin concerto begins with the soloist giving octave downbeats to accompany a quick 3/8 melody in the flute and bass clarinet. One of this composerâs cello concertos begins with the soloist playing what sounds like âG-E-B-B-flatâ [read slowly], although it is in E-flat major. The development of the first movement of his fifth symphony begins with a low âshort-short-longâ piano figure and the French horns loudly playing the first theme at the bottom of their range. This composerâs first cello concerto has a brass section of just one French horn, and his C-minor first piano concerto uses an orchestra of just strings and one trumpet. His A-minor first violin concerto consists of a nocturne, scherzo, passacaglia, and burlesque. His fifth symphony begins with a leap up a minor sixth in the low strings, which play in canon with the violins. For 10 points, name this composer who wrote his fifth symphony after being denounced by Stalin.
The scherzo of this composerâs first violin concerto begins with the soloist giving octave downbeats to accompany a quick 3/8 melody in the flute and bass clarinet.
Dmitri [Dmitriyevich] Shostakovich