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The soloist in this composer’s first cello concerto enters with the melody [read slowly] “G, F-flat, up to C-flat, long B-flat,” (20[1])which he transposed and quoted in a later string quartet. (20[1])This composer’s first violin concerto consists of a nocturne, scherzo (“SCAIR-tzo”), passacaglia (20[2])(“pahss-uh-CALL-ya”), and burlesque. (20[1])This composer (20[1])wrote his second piano concerto in F major (20[1])for his (20[1])son Maxim. (20[2])While staying (20[1])in Dresden to write the score (20[1])to the film Five Days, Five Nights, (20[3])this composer wrote a C minor (*) string quartet, his eighth, which he dedicated (10[1])“to the (10[1])victims (10[1])of (10[1])fascism (10[3])and the war.” (10[4])This (10[1])composer (10[1])wrote an “invasion theme” for (10[1])his (10[1])seventh symphony. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the cryptogram D-S-C-H (10[1])represents what composer of the (10[1])Leningrad Symphony? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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