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: One of his works argues that rationality is the core of all reality, and states that there is no reality besides that which is shaped by the mind; a condensed version of this work can be found in his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. One of his works divides the title concept into abstract, moral and ethical spheres, and posits the idea that free will can only be realized in systems of property rights and contracts. In addition to the aforementioned Science of Logic, another work relies on the thesis-antithesis-synthesis method, and includes discussions of Absolute Knowing and the master-slave dialectic. FTP, name this German philosopher and author of The Philosophy of Right and Phenomenology of Mind.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: of this man's early poems uses the phrase "Master of the still stars and of the flaming door" to describe "The Valley of the Black Pig," while another notes "The fascination of what's difficult/ Has dried the sap out of my veins. " One of his war poems notes "We, who seven years ago/ Talked of honour and of truth,/ Shriek with pleasure if we show,/ The weasel's twist, the weasel's tooth," and another implores "Come build in the empty house of the stare"; those are (*) "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" and "Meditations in Time of Civil War. " In addition to referring to his "Decrepit age that has been tied to me/ As to a dog's tail," leaving him "A tattered coat upon a stick," his later work sees him dream "of a Ledaean body, bent/ Above a sinking fire" while describing his school inspections, and also describing "A sudden blow: the great wings beating still" in another poem that plays on the same myth. For 10 points, name this poet of "Among School Children," "The Stolen Child" and "Easter, 1916. "

SOLUTION:
Literature