Round 12: Tossup 15

Upon hearing this piece, its dedicatee wrote that with “Beethoven dead” only its composer “could revive him.” This piece’s soloist enters with the slow 3/4 melody “D, long B, C, long low E,” over G major harp arpeggios. In this piece’s third movement, an introduction featuring piccolo and oboe leads to an English horn solo imitating pifferari bagpipers. This piece’s first movement (-5[1])reuses a melody from its composer’s Rob Roy overture and depicts its title character “in the Mountains,” and its later movements depict a “March of the Pilgrims” and an “Orgy of the Brigands.” (-5[1])After (-5[1])seeing the amount of rests in the solo (-5[1])part, Niccolò Paganini declined to perform this piece, which was loosely inspired by a Lord Byron poem. For 10 points, name this symphony featuring solo viola by Hector Berlioz. ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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