Bonus
A scathing review by Rudolf Louis provoked this composer to reply with “I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me!” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this German composer who borrowed a lilting, dotted theme in A major from an earlier composer for a set of variations and a fugue.
ANSWER: Max Reger (“RAY-gur”) [or Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger]
[10e] Reger took the theme from his Variations and Fugue from this composer’s 11th piano sonata, whose third movement is a “Rondo alla Turca.”
ANSWER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
[10m] A rare example of a triple-sharp appears in the second of Reger’s two sonatas for this instrument. Mozart’s Kegelstatt trio features piano, viola, and this instrument played by Anton Stadler.
ANSWER: clarinet [accept basset clarinet]
<Claremont, Classical Music>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 62 | 14.68 | 89% | 57% | 2% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 67% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 14.00 | 90% | 50% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |