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How many times did George Crumb set the poetry of Federico García Lorca to music?

  • Three

  • Eleven

  • Seven

  • Twenty

Answer

George Crumb set the poetry of Federico García Lorca to music eleven times, in a series of works that began in 1962 with "Three Madrigals" and ended in 2000 with "Nocturne I: After Lorca". The works are all settings of poems by Lorca, and they are all written for solo instruments or small ensembles.
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