TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
PROBLEM: This composer reworked an instrumental sarabande into the aria Lascia ch'io planga. He called for improvised solo organ pieces to be placed ad libitum into the later of his organ concertos, a genre he invented to show off. The "Hailstone Chorus" appears in the first part of an oratorio by this man whose second part is "The Song of Moses"; that work is Israel in Egypt. One of this man's works includes a suite in G major that has a rigaudon, a minuet, and five shorter, unnamed pieces, as well as a suite in F major that begins with a (*) French overture. That piece was written to be played on barges floating on the River Thames for King George I. For 10 points, name this Baroque composer who wrote Water Music and the oratorio Messiah.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: A member of the Alcmaeonid family he was born under a family curse incited by his great-grandfather. Peisistratus exiled him and his family, but he returned twenty years later, and during the reign of Hippias convinced the Delphic oracle to tell Sparta to help overthrow the tyranny. Gaining power in 510, he broke the traditional aristocracy, instituting a system of the ten tribes of Attica.. FTP,  identify this Athenian tyrant who created the council of 500 in order to favor equal rights for all citizens.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: One of this mans protagonists dies when he blows up his palace after his mother Fides sings the aria Ah my son. In Act III of another of this composers operas, a hurricane begins to rise as Nelusko sings a ballad about the monster Adamastor. The protagonist of that opera by this man sings O Paradise! upon arriving in Selikas homeland. This composer of operas about John of Leyden and Vasco da Gama created a work in which Bertram summons a ballet of debauched nuns to tempt the title character, who is engaged to Isabelle. Another of his operas centers on Raoul de Nagis and culminates in the St. Bartholomews Day Massacre. For 10 points, name this composer of such operas as Le Prophete, LAfricaine, Robert le Diable, and Les Huguenots.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts