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A three-movement symphony titled for this character starts with low strings holding an A-flat, then arpeggiating four augmented triads in an early use of a tone row. This is the first title character of a cantata that won a 19-year-old Lili Boulanger ("boo-lawn-ZHAY") the Prix de Rome. An 1846 légende ("lay-ZHAHND") dramatique titled for this character features a traditional Hungarian march. A setting of "Veni, creator spiritus" and a depiction of this man (20[1])make up Mahler's (*) Eighth Symphony. The "Dance of the Sylphs" appears in Berlioz's cantata The Damnation of [this man], (10[1])who also titles an opera by Charles Gounod. For 10 points, what legendary scholar inspired Franz Schubert's "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel" and Franz Liszt's Mephisto Waltzes? ■END■

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