During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Duke Piano Area recorded a set of preludes that this composer wrote after failing to place in the Chopin Competition. On his 1992 recording of a piece by this composer whose subject begins “C, long G, C, short G–A–G,” Keith Jarrett played at half speed. In May 2023, Andris Nelsons completed the Boston Symphony’s recording of a cycle of pieces by this composer for Deutsche Grammophon. Tatyana Nikolayeva recorded this composer’s Opus 87 four times, a set of 24 (*) preludes and fugues that he based on her playing The Well-Tempered Clavier. This composer parodied Charles-Louis Hanon in a concerto written for his son’s 19th birthday. This composer’s ballet The Limpid Stream was labeled a “falsehood” after an episode that led him to recant another piece due to formalism. For 10 points, name this composer attacked in the Pravda editorial “Muddle Instead of Music.” ■END■
ANSWER: Dmitri Shostakovich [or Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich] (The pieces in the first clue are his 24 Preludes, Op. 34. The piece in the second clue is the C major fugue from his Op. 87.)
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