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The Stone Breakers
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Gustave Courbet
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symphony based on its composer’s vacation to Spillville, Iowa
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New World Symphony
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New World Symphony
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Antonín Dvořák
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Toccata and Fugue in D minor
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J S Bach
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24 preludes and fugues
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Well-Tempered Clavier
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Golden Temple is in this city
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Amritsar
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Voodoo spirits such as Papa Legba
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Ioa
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Lyric Pieces
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Edvard Grieg
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collection written for the 200th birthday of a Norwegian-born playwright.
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Holberg Suite (Edvard Grieg)
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painting that depicts multiple images of the Venus de Milo in addition to a bullfighter
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The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Dali)
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Wife of Salvador Dali
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Gala Dali
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sect of Mahayana Buddhism is based on tantras
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Esoteric
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1883 eruption created the loudest noise in recorded history
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Krakatoa
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aria in which the Queen of the Night tries to persuade Pamina to kill her rival Sarastro.
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Der Holle Rache`
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Doctor Atomic
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John Coolidge Adams
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opera set in South Carolina
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Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)
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Rhapsody in Blue
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George Gershwin
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Biblically-inspired song in Porgy and Bess
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It aint necessarily so
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people who sculpted the Chimera of Arezzo
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Etruscans
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metal used for most of Auguste Rodin’s sculptures
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Bronze
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Concerto for Lute and Plucked Strings
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Vivaldi
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continuously crescendoing work that begins with a snare ostinato and a flute playing the main theme
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Bolero
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Russian ballerina who commissioned Bolero
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Rubinstein
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five-movement suite written to celebrate the signing of the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
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Music for the Royal Fireworks
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who wrote the coronation anthem Zadok the Priest
Handel
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capital at Basseterre, smallest carribean country
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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21 nocturnes and the Revolutionary Étude
Chopin
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The sight of a small dog chasing its tail supposedly inspired this famous Chopin piece
Minute Waltz
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Nessun dorma
Puccini
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Lauretta threatens to throw herself into the Arno if her father does not approve of her marriage to Rinuccio
O mio babbino caro (Puccini)
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24 Caprices
Paganini
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Pesaro Madonna
Titian
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title figure wears a bracelet on her right arm, and her right hand holds a bunch of flowers
Venus of Urbino (Titian)
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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.
Koans
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Zen is said to have been originated from this sermon Siddhartha Gautama gave to his disciples
Flower sermon
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Orchestras tune to this instrument
Oboe
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Oboe Sonata in D Major
Camille Saint-Saens
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book containing hymns mostly dedicated to Agni and Indra
Rig Veda
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group of French composers
Les six
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Group of Russian composers
The five
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Desiccated Embryos
Satie
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contemporary art museum in Washington, D.C., that contains works by Jeff Koons in its sculpture garden
Hirshhorn museum
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Suite containing morning mood
Peer Gynt (Grieg)
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work inspired by a speech by Vice President Henry A. Wallace
Fanfare for the common man (Copland)
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The Night Cafe
Van Gogh
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L'Absinthe
Degas
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Diego De Landa led an inquisition against this civilization during the 1560s
Mayans
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Closing lines in Antony and Cleopatra delivered by this man
Octavius Caesar
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Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell
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Protagonist of this play dances the Tarantella
A Doll's House (Ibsen)
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Lowest female voice type
Contralto
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Anvil Chorus
Troubador (Verdi)
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Sonata for this instrument begins with arpeggiated C sharp minor chords
Piano
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First horse to win an undefeated triple crown
Seattle Slew
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Character that becomes an assistant to yacht owner Dan Cody
Jay Gatsby
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Worlds largest lake
Caspian sea
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Capital of Azerbaijan
Baku
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25th amendment allows position to be filled
Vice President
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First published poet in the American colonies
Anne Bradstreet
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Title of Anne Bradstreet's only poetry collection
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
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Two members of this family wrote Sisters First
Bush
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5th Mughal emperor
Shah Jahan
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Shah Jahan built this mausoleum
Taj Mahal
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Taj Mahal is in this city
Agra
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Operation Euphrates Shield
Turkey
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Oceans of Wisdom
Hokusai
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Active Imagination
Carl Jung
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Major export of Newcastle
Coal
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York River
Virginia
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Second capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
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Native American chief's confederacy
Powhatan's confederacy
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Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central
Diego Rivera
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Battle of Germantown (revolutionary war)
Philadelphia
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Cells that transmit signals across a synapse
Neurons
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Lobe that contains the primary auditory cortex
Temporal lobe
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Area of the brain that controls language comprehension
Vernicke's area
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Good Country People
O Conner
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Country that expelled almost all Asians in 1972
Uganda
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Twin brother of Artermis
Appolo
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Mother of apollo
Leto
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Leto labored for 9 days and nights on this island
Delos
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6th of October bridge crosses Gezira Island
Cairo
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Leader of the free french
Charles De Gaulle
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Leader of Vichy french
Petain
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This opera’s title character sings “En vain pour eviter”
Carmen
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Mack the knife
Kurt Weill
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jazz transformation of Mack the Knife
Louis Armstrong
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Songs and Dances of Death
Mussorgsky
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Vote McGovern
Andy Warhol
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This dance was originally created by German peasants in the 13th century
Waltz
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chiaroscuro style
Woodcutting
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Seagram Murals
Mark Rothko
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Mephisto Waltzes
Lizst
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The Three Graces
Raphael
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created the works Become Water and Inuksut to describe the nature of Alaska
John Coolidge Adams
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A priest’s face nearly fills a church doorway in this work
I and the Village (Chagall)
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Mozart’s final concerto was written for this instrument
Clarinet
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Excavations at a site attributed to this civilization found a painting depicting bull leaping
Minoan
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Self-Portrait with a Dog
Gustave Courbet
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Who Composed Bethena
Scott Joplin
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one of this man’s plays sees Jerry walk into a knife after arguing over the possession of a Central Park bench
Edward Albee
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In a Jean-Leon Gerome painting, a sculptor performs this action to an ivory statue
Kissing
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On the right, a figure sometimes identified as Pomona stands in front of an orange grove
The birth of Venus (Botticelli)
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Hector Berlioz wrote a ninety-minute long work of this type for 100 strings
Requiem
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A solo flute in G Major opens the finale of this composer’s Symphony No. 5
Felix Mendelsson
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the Canzionere, or Songbook, which contains many poems dedicated to Laura
Petrarch
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The subject of this painting wears a crescent tiara
Madame X (John Singer Sargent
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Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc have paintings titled [this color]
Blue
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Two figures walk along a bridge on the left of this painting
The Scream (Munch)
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this performer sang “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” at MLK's funeral
Aretha Franklin
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The tallest mountain in this place is Victoria Peak
Hong Kong
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This composition’s title refers to a collection of over one thousand songs and poems from medieval times that were found in Bavaria
Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)
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“In Spring,” “In the Tavern,” and “Court of Love” are three sections of this piece
Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)
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This piece was originally intended as the second movement of another piece, but the composer decided to make it into a stand alone work after it received a standing ovation at the premier
Adagio for strings
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One of these musical pieces has two versions of its first movement cadenza
Piano Concerto
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Pore Jud is Daid
Oklahoma
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The sixth movement of this piece features a four note “spell” motif and staccato bassoons
The Planets (Holst)
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The Thames, Westminster Bridge is one of close to 30 paintings of the Thames River by one founder of this art movement
Fauvism
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Stars described by this adjective are white dwarfs that no longer emit significant light or heat due to cooling
Black
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This era was divided into three phases, and it received its name from Portuguese word
Baroque
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24 Caprices made for this instrument
Violin
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"Black Mass" sonata
Alexander Scriabin
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The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer
Lucien Freud
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the Screaming Pope series
Francis Bacon
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Rouen Cathedral series
Claude Monet
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Founder of impressionism
Claude Monet
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One of these objects made of Cor-Ten steel sits in the Rothko Chapel
Obelisk
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Rothko Chapel
Houston, Texas
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Its architect intended for visitors to ride to the top of the museum and descend down a single incline while viewing its artworks
Gugenheim museum
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the training of living trees and shrubs into artificial, decorative shapes
Topiary
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March 3rd holiday in Japan
Doll's day
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disappeared while traveling to entertain American troops in France in 1944
Glenn Miller
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Hans von Bülow was the first to play all 32 of Beethoven’s works of this form in a single concert cycle
Piano Sonata
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Who painted The Nightmare
Henry Fuseli
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What country had the Years of Lead
Italy
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What ballet follows 2 newlyweds
Appalachin Spring (Copland)
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What work contains the sections “The Market at Limoges,” “The Hut on Hen’s Legs,” and “The Old Castle,”
Pictures at an exhibition (Mussorgsky)
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Who made Peter and the Wolf
Sergei Prokofiev
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What jazz artist released albums subtitled The Birthday Concert and Mack the Knife
Ella Fitzgareld
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Who choreographed many of Tchaikovsky's works
Marius Petipa
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Who made Ride of the Valkyries
Richard Wagner
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What opera is played annually at the Bayreuth festival
Das Rhinegold (Wagner)
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Who wrote the Chorale Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.
JS Bach
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Franz Liszt wrote six etudes for piano based on works by this composer
Paganini
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Five topless girls and five naked boys taunt each other in this artist’s Young Spartans Exercising
Degas
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This artist painted a series of pastels depicting women bathing in tubs
Degas
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Emmanuel Chabrier wrote an orchestral piece of this type named for España
Rhapsody
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Works numbered from 136 to 146 in the Searle catalogue are these kinds of pieces
Etude
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This composer developed a secret method for playing third harmonics in pieces such as his variations on the aria “Di tanti palpiti.
Paganini
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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Rachmaninov
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typically used to train musicians
Etude
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Used a ricochet playing style
Paganini
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