Teacher: 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.
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In one work this author details the life of a tomb-maker who makes extra money by playing the organ at an insane asylum, while another of his novels sees Swartz give a refugee proper documentation only after he tells him his life story in the title Portuguese city. In addition to The Black Obelisk and The Night in Lisbon, he also wrote about Robert and Otto selling their auto workshop and visiting Patrice in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium in his novel The Three Comrades, while the turbulent life of the German surgeon Ravic is told in The Arch of Triumph. Another of his novels, The Road Back, is thought to be a sequel to his most famous book, in which the patriotic teacher Kantorek convinces Paul Bumer and his friends to join the Germany Army during World War I. For 10 points, name this German author who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front.
Solution: Literature
Reason: The text is talking about an author and their works, so it belongs to theliterature category.

Now, solve this instance: In one work by this composer, the overture of a Richard Wagner opera is intentionally mangled as if being sight-read by a spa orchestra early in the morning. One of this composer's important early works is a setting of a fifteen-poem cycle about the life of the Virgin Mary, Das Marienleben. William Furtwangler's attempted staging of an opera by this composer eventually culminated in his resignation from the Staatsoper and Berlin Philharmoniker. Another work by this composer includes twelve fugues with eleven linking interludes and a prelude and postlude that are retrograde inversions of each other. This composer was a leading proponent of Gebrauchsmusik, and often played in a trio with Szymon Goldberg and Emanuel Feuermann. Yet another work by this composer was written in just six hours upon hearing of the death of King George V and is scored for orchestra and viola, an instrument of which he was a master. That work is Trauermusik, and other works include Ludus Tonalis and Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber. For 10 points, identify this righteous anti- dodecaphonist whose first symphony was based on themes from his opera Mathis der Maler.
Student:
Fine Arts