Packet 7: Bonus 9

A high violin solo plays throughout this piece’s lengthy G-major “Benedictus.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1824 choral work. The “Et vitam venturi” section of its “Credo” movement is often considered a prime example of its composer’s insensitive treatment of the human voice.
ANSWER: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa solemnis [prompt on mass or Beethoven’s mass]
[10h] The premiere of Missa solemnis was organized by this Russian aristocrat who initiated Beethoven’s “late string quartet” phase by commissioning his Opus 127, 130, and 132 quartets.
ANSWER: Nikolai Borisovich Galitzin
[10e] The original finale of the second Galitzin quartet was a “Grosse” movement in this contrapuntal genre, in which music is generated by imitation of a subject.
ANSWER: fugue [or fuge; accept Grosse Fuge]
<Bruin, Classical Music> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown

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