The cello opens playing artificial harmonics at the beginning of this composer's second piano trio, after which the violin plays a similar theme beginning a minor third higher.
The cello opens playing artificial harmonics at the beginning of this composer's second piano trio, after which the violin plays a similar theme beginning a minor third higher. The second movement of one work by this composer features the celesta in dialogue with a solo instrument playing the main theme in artificial harmonics, and its first movement develops out of a staccato G-F flat-C flat-B flat motif. Besides his first cello concerto, this man wrote a viola sonata whose third movement quotes the Moonlight Sonata in 4/4 time. His symphonies include one whose fourth movement features the G minor of the tocsin clashes with the G major of the orchestra. He paired the "Elmira" theme with his musical monogram, D-E flat-C-B, in the nocturne third movement of his Symphony No. 10. The fourth movement of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra parodies the 22-bar "invasion theme" of another of this man's symphonies. For 10 points, name this Soviet composer whose symphonies include The Year 1905 and Leningrad.
The cello opens playing artificial harmonics at the beginning of this composer's second piano trio, after which the violin plays a similar theme beginning a minor third higher.
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich