King William’s College Kwizz 2019. FT Round 8

#7: I have a vague hunch there may be a classical work titled Goyescas, but I’m not sure. Also unsure about Catalan composer.

#8: Clearly a Nobel Prize question; there was a Spaniard called Cajal y Ramon, or possibly Ramon y Cajal , who received the Physiology or Medicine prize for his study and drawings of brain cells, or something like that.

Wiki-confirming and completing my own two attempts:

#7: “Goyescas, Op. 11, subtitled Los majos enamorados (The Gallants in Love), is a piano suite written in 1911 by Spanish composer Enrique Granados[*]. This piano suite is usually considered Granados’s crowning creation and was inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, although the piano pieces have not been authoritatively associated with any particular paintings. The suite forms part of the standard Romantic piano repertoire.”

*) He was indeed Catalan.

#8: “Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist, specializing in neuroanatomy, particularly the histology of the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906, with Ramón y Cajal thereby becoming the first person of Spanish origin to win a scientific Nobel Prize. His original investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him a pioneer of modern neuroscience. Hundreds of his drawings illustrating the delicate arborizations (“tree growing”) of brain cells are still in use for educational and training purposes.”