A popular myth says that this composer was killed out of jealousy by Antonio Salieri. FranzSüssmayr completed this man's unfinished Requiem, and his 41st symphony is nicknamed "Jupiter".The Queen of the Night appears in this man's opera The (*) Magic Flute. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (EYE-nuhKLY-nuh NAHKT-music), or "A Little Night Music", was written by, for 10 points, what Austrian child prodigycomposer?
This artist excluded shadows from his painting Bedroom in Arles. This artist painted numerousself-portraits, including one "With Bandaged Ear", depicting the aftermath of his (*) cutting his ear off.A cypress tree juts into the left side of one famous painting by this artist, which also features a swirling skyabove the village of Saint-Remy. For 10 points, name this Dutch artist of Starry Night.
One work by this composer consists of 30 variations on an aria, of which every third variation is acanon. This composer wrote 24 preludes and fugues, one for every key, in The (*) Well-Tempered Clavier.For 10 points, name this Baroque composer of Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the Goldberg Variations, and theBrandenburg Concerti.
One artwork from this country is titled Fine Wind, Clear Morning, and was created in its ukiyo-estyle. A woodblock artist from this country depicted several suffering boats in The Great Wave Off (*)Kanagawa. That artist, Hokusai, created 36 Views of Mount Fuji, a mountain in, for 10 points, what Asiancountry whose modern art includes graphic novels called manga?
This painting appears opposite the artist's La Disputa. A large marble arch dominates this work,whose central figures hold copies of the books Timaeus and Ethics and which also depicts Averroespeering over Pythagoras's shoulder at Archimedes. Pythagoras, Socrates, and (*) Plato are some of themany philosophers depicted in, for 10 points, what fresco of a namesake Greek city by Raphael?
Mozart owned one of these instruments made by Anton Walter that had levers operated by theplayer's knees. Unlike a harpsichord, which this instrument replaced, this instrument has malletswhich strike its strings. The left una corda (*) pedal on this instrument makes it softer, and its damperpedal causes notes to be sustained longer. For 10 points, what instrument has 88 keys which are white andblack?
One character in this musical describes "knobs on the doors" and "wall-to-wall floors" as attractionsof moving from Puerto Rico to New York in the song "America". This musical's song "I Feel Pretty" issung by Maria, who holds her lover (*) Tony as he dies. For 10 points, name this musical inspired by Romeoand Juliet about a gang war between the Jets and the Sharks, composed by Leonard Bernstein.
A mercury thermometer is one object in this artist’s Why Not Sneeze, Rose Selavy?. This man drew amustache and goatee on the Mona Lisa in his L.H.O.O.Q.. Many people have attempted to (*) pee in hismost famous artwork. For 10 points, name this French Dadaist artist who created Fountain by writing thename "R. Mutt" on a urinal.
This artist founded a movement with Georges Braque, and the suicide of his friend CarlosCasegemas inspired his Blue Period. This artist depicted a melancholy musician in his The Old (*)Guitarist. In another painting, this man depicted a mother grieving her dead son that depicts the bombing ofthe title town during the Spanish Civil War. For 10 points, name this Cubist who painted Guernica.
The tune "Salt Peanuts" was written by one player of this instrument known for puffing his cheeksand playing a bent version of it. In addition to Dizzy Gillespie, this instrument was also played by amusician nicknamed (*) "Satchmo". This was the instrument of the lead artist on the album Kind of Blue. Jazzlegends Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong played, for 10 points, what high brass instrument?
This man showed horses and a carriage with elongated legs in his version of The Temptation of St.Anthony. This man replaced the headset of a telephone with a lobster in one work, and depicted aswarm of ants on one of many melting (*) clocks in his most famous painting. For 10 points, name thisSpanish surrealist painter of The Persistence of Memory.
24 caprices were written for this instrument by one virtuoso player of it, Niccolò Paganini. TheFour Seasons were a set of concerti composed for this instrument by Antonio (*) Vivaldi. Stradivariusmanufactured many high-quality examples of these instruments. The viola is slightly lower-pitched than, for10 points, what smallest string instrument in the orchestra?
Two towers appear on the facade of this city's Reims (RENCE) Cathedral, an early example of HighGothic Architecture. An underground lobby in a museum in this city can be reached by entering an I.M. Pei-designed glass (*) pyramid. A medieval cathedral in this city is currently being rebuilt after a 2019fire. For 10 points, name this city home to Notre Dame and the Louvre (LOOV), the capital of France.
Pauline Bonaparte insisted on posing nude for a sculpture of this deity, whom Titian depicted lyingnude on a red couch in a painting of her "of Urbino". This goddess stands on a seashell in (*) Botticelli'sdepiction of her "Birth". A famous ancient Greek statue of this non-Nike goddess is missing its arms. A statuefrom the island of Milos depicts, for 10 points, what Roman goddess of beauty?
One of this composer's operas includes the character Prince Calaf and the aria "Nessun dorma",and another of his operas features Rodolfo and Mimi and inspired the musical Rent. The aria "Un beldì" is sung by Cio-Cio-San as she waits for (*) Pinkerton in another of this man's operas. For 10 points,name this Italian who composed Turandot, La Bohème, and Madame Butterfly.
In one fresco by this man, St. Thomas raises his index figure in doubt as the central figure stretcheshis hands over a table. Another work by this artist shows a man with four arms inscribed in (*)geometric shapes. This man depicted the wife of Francesco del Giocondo smiling mysteriously in anotherpainting. For 10 points, name this Renaissance artist of Vitruvian Man and the Mona Lisa.
An instrument of this type plays a continuous ostinato for the entirety of Maurice Ravel's Boléro.The tabla is an Indian instrument of this type. A metal kind of this instrument popular in Caribbeanmusic can play several different notes and is called its (*) "steel" type. Timpanis are large, tunableexamples of, for 10 points, what percussion instruments with "bass" and "snare" types?
A young girl dances herself to death as part of a pagan ritual celebrating the start of this season inone ballet. This season appears in the title of a ballet whose premiere in Paris caused (*) riots to breakout. Aaron Copland wrote a ballet named for the "Appalachian" variety of this season. For 10 points, IgorStravinsky wrote "The Rite of" what season that comes after winter?