Johann Christian Bach - 2023 ACF Nationals

Question

This composer sued the publisher James Longman, establishing a precedent for the copyright of written musical works. This composer’s Opus 18 includes three symphonies written for two antiphonal orchestras. This composer is credited with giving the first public demonstration of the piano. (-5[1])This composer premiered his cantata Cefalo e Procri at a public concert series he founded with his friend (-5[1])Carl Friedrich Abel. (10[3]-5[3])This composer (10[2])mentored a young Mozart, who (10[1])arranged several of this composer’s sonatas (-5[1])as (-5[1])piano concertos and later described (-5[1])this composer’s death as “a loss to the musical world.” This composer wrote that his brother (10[1])in Berlin “lived to compose,” (10[1])while he “composed to live” (10[1])while working (10[1])as a court musician for (-5[1])Queen Charlotte. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this youngest (10[1])son (-5[1])of J.S. Bach, who composed many works in the (10[1])galant style while living in London. (10[1]) (10[6]0[4])■END■

ANSWER: Johann Christian Bach [or J.C. Bach; prompt on J. Bach or Johann Bach; prompt on the London Bach until “London” is read; reject “Johann Sebastian Bach” or “J.S. Bach”]

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Summary


2023 ACF Nationals	04/22/2023	Y	23	83%	0%	48%	106.53

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Drake Eshleman	Indiana A	Texas A	41	-5
Sky Li	Toronto A	Cornell B	59	-5
Max Brodsky	Illinois A	Penn A	62	-5
Christopher Sims	Northwestern A	UC Berkeley A	62	10
Tracy Mirkin	Florida A	Yale A	62	-5
Aidan Fein	Vanderbilt A	UC Berkeley B	62	-5
Kevin Park	Claremont A	Iowa State A	62	10
Vincent Du	North Carolina A	Chicago C	62	10
Clark Smith	Ohio State A	Chicago A	64	10
Ethan Ashbrook	Minnesota A	MIT A	64	10
Raymond Wang	Cornell A	Stanford A	69	10
Forrest Weintraub	Columbia B	Rutgers B	75	-5
Arya Karthik	Georgia Tech A	Maryland A	76	-5
Matthew Lehmann	WUSTL A	Brown A	81	-5
Arjun Nageswaran	Harvard A	Columbia A	97	10
Alex Pijanowski	Purdue A	Minnesota B	102	10
Aum Mundhe	Rutgers A	WUSTL B	107	10
Arthur Delot-Vilain	Yale A	Florida A	109	10
John Marvin	Chicago B	Duke A	114	-5
Joseph Chambers	Virginia A	Penn State A	119	-5
Tegan Kapadia	Georgia Tech B	Yale B	122	10
Cormac Beirne	McGill A	South Carolina A	123	-5
Vinu Harihar	UC Berkeley B	Vanderbilt A	132	10
Alex Schmidt	Penn State A	Virginia A	138	10
Jacob Egol	Duke A	Chicago B	139	10
Karan Gurazada	Texas A	Indiana A	139	10
Tiffany Zhou	Florida B	Johns Hopkins A	139	0
Halle Friedman	NYU A	Imperial A	139	0
Michael Mays	Imperial A	NYU A	139	10
Richard Niu	Cornell B	Toronto A	139	10
Isak Jatoi	South Carolina A	McGill A	139	0
Caleb Kendrick	Maryland A	Georgia Tech A	139	10
Vaishali Siva	Johns Hopkins A	Florida B	139	0
Michael Li	Brown A	WUSTL A	139	10