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: He used "La Follia" as the basis for his last original solo piano composition, Variations on a Theme of Corelli. Unsatisfied with his revisions of his second piano sonata, he gave Horowitz authority to change it however he pleased. Glazunov's drunken conducting of his first symphony sent him into a three-year-long depression, which he once consulted Tolstoy about. He wrote an Elegiac Trio after the death of Tchaikovsky, who was set to conduct his symphonic fantasy The Rock. He referred to his third piano concerto, written for his first American tour, as "a piece for elephants". A painting by Bocklin inspired his Isle of the Dead, and he also set Poe's The Bells to music. FTP, identify this Russian composer who used a caprice for solo violin as the basis for arguably his most famous work, Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini.

SOLUTION: Fine Arts

PROBLEM: The losers standard-bearer, Sir Percival Thirwall, did not let the banner fall, even though both of his legs had been cut off. Some historians believe that the battle was fought closer to the villages of Dadlington and Stoke Golding. One of the more important casualties was Thomas Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, while real command on the winners side rested with John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford. Though the battle began well for the loser, the tide turned when Sir William Stanley led his troops into the fray on the side of the winner. FTP identify this battle that saw the end of the house of York when Henry Tudors forces defeated Richard III.

SOLUTION: History

PROBLEM: The work opens with a theme in cellos and basses that borrows from the composer's discarded overture Rob-Roy, and an alternating semitone interval with the lower or upper note is found throughout the work. Concluding with Orgy of the Brigands, the composer imitated the wandering pifferari in the work's second movement, "Serenade of a mountaineer of the (*) Abruzzi to his mistress. " First created to allow the composer Nicol Paganini to showcase his newly acquired Stradivari viola, FTP, name this Berlioz work, which features the viola as a melancholy dreamer from a Byron work who travels through a certain Mediterranean nation.

SOLUTION:
Fine Arts