This Composer celebrated his "unmotivated joy" over an infamous murder-suicide with the funeral march In Memoriam.
This Composer celebrated his "unmotivated joy" over an infamous murder-suicide with the funeral march In Memoriam. This man substituted a soloist cadenza for the sonata form first movement of piece that ends with ascending sixteenth notes in its notoriously imposing third movement, his Violin Concerto in D minor. Tritones dominate this man's sad, austere Symphony no. 4 in A Minor, which was partially inspired by his battle with (*) throat cancer. A meeting between Don Juan and Death inspired one theme in this man's D major second symphony, while he depicted a sick mother awakening and dancing with "strange visionary couples" before dying in his Valse Triste. This man composed seven symphonies and the tone poem Tapiola, in addition to the Karelia Suite and Kullervo Symphony, For 10 points, name this man who used the Kalevala as the basis for his Finlandia.
This Composer celebrated his "unmotivated joy" over an infamous murder-suicide with the funeral march In Memoriam.
Jean {Sibelius}