The teacher of Yehudi Menuhin, he spent over twenty years writing an opera about the entire life of Oedipus.
In one of his concerts, this composer seemingly gave into an anti-Semitic crowd by choosing not to play a piece by Ernest Bloch, only to play Maurice Ravel's Kaddish instead. This composer indicated saltando bowing to imitate the sound of a cricket and used high-pitched trills to represent a bird in a cage in two of his ten Impressions d'Enfance. One of his pieces begins with the oboes and clarinets alternately playing the melody of the drinking song "I Have a Coin, and I Want a Drink," and later quotes the folk tune Ciocarlia. His collaboration with Merri Franquin led him to compose Legende, a mainstay of the modern trumpet repertoire. This composer included a wind machine in the score of his symphonic poem about a storm at sea, Vox maris. The teacher of Yehudi Menuhin, he spent over twenty years writing an opera about the entire life of Oedipus. For 10 points, name this violin virtuoso who composed the opera Oedipe and paid homage to the music of his home country in his two Romanian Rhapsodies.
In one of his concerts, this composer seemingly gave into an anti-Semitic crowd by choosing not to play a piece by Ernest Bloch, only to play Maurice Ravel's Kaddish instead.
George Enescu