Questions 12-15 refer to the following passage.

Select the sentence in the third paragraph that gives evidence for the idea that Szymanowska’s work laid the foundation for at least one future composer.

Transcribed Image Text:

Line (5) Women played a substantial role in the furthering of the Polish art song in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. One notable woman from this time period was Maria Szymanowska, who was both a concert pianist and a composer. Szymanowska was a member of the Warsaw Music Society who contributed pieces to a cycle entitled Historical Songs. Her songs are by far (10) the most creative and individualistic of the cycle. In addition, Szymanowska composed more than one hundred other pieces, mostly for the piano, including six romances.