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.

Benjamin Britten based his Young Personss Guide to the Orchestra on the theme of this mans Abdelazar. This mans mentor composed the masque Venus and Adonis and was named John Blow. His compositions were collected by his widow in Orpheus Britannicus, whose preface was written by a son of this mans contemporary and friend John Playford. He composed operas based on King Arthur and Spensers The Faerie Queen, and another of his operas contained the noted aria When I am Laid in Earth. For 10 points, name this English Baroque composer of Dido and Aeneas.
Fine Arts

Believed to be the source for the Cambodian god Preas Prohm, this god once had his beard turned red by the powerful weapon of Jalamdhara and gave qualified immortality to Taraka. He was charmed by an arrow into screwing his daughter immediately after the birth of Kama. The temple at Pushkar is one of the few dedicated to this god, who sprouted a new head to look at Satarupa every time she moved. Born with a thousand thighs, heads, arms, and eyes as the being Purusha, he is attended by the swan Hamsa, and his wife is the goddess of learning Sarasvati. His masculine name is similar to the neuter word for the principle underlying the universe, as well as to the name of the highest caste. FTP, name this often four-headed and four-handed creator-god of Hinduism.
Social Science

During this war, Jorg Jenatsch took control over a controversial court in Valtellina and sentenced the head of the Planta family to be pinned to the floor with an axe, which he then eagerly carried out personally. The resulting Bundner Wirren, or Confusion of the Leagues, had to be put down by Henri de Rohan, whose own revolts during this conflict forced the Treaty of Montpellier. One general in this war was hacked to death in bed by Scotsmen under Walter Leslie. Southern Europe's last major bubonic plague outbreak occurred after the death of three Gonzaga brothers triggered the War of the Mantuan Succession. It saw Spanish tercios win at Nordlingen but fail disastrously at Breitenfeld, leading to the death of the County of Tilly. Wallenstein lost at its Battle of Lutzen, which claimed the life of Gustavus Adolphus. For 10 points, name this massive European conflict resolved by the Peace of Westphalia.
History