Question

A violin sonata by this composer opens with the piano playing an unaccompanied tone-row theme in both hands spaced two octaves apart, before the soloist enters in the 9th bar. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata is quoted in the adagio final movement of this composer’s Viola Sonata, his final work. Six adagio movements make up this composer’s (15[1]-5[1])15th and final (15[1])string quartet. This composer wrote (15[1])another quartet while in Dresden (15[1])to create the score (15[2])for the film (*) Five Days, Five Nights. That C-minor 8th string quartet makes extensive use of the theme “D, E-flat, (10[1])C, B-natural,” (10[1])a musical cryptogram of this composer’s name. (10[1]) For 10 points, what Soviet composer commemorated WWII (10[1])soldiers in a quartet dedicated to “victims of fascism and war” and his “Leningrad” Symphony? (10[2])■END■

ANSWER: Dmitri Shostakovich [or Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich]
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Summary

2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y4100%50%25%97.50
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y8100%50%0%79.13

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Raymond WangCornell EarthRIT54-5
Stan MelkumianPurdue ASIUE A5415
Jeremy CummingsWUSTLPurdue B5715
Robert CondronChicago AMissouri6215
Samarth RamChicago BChicago D6715
Forrest WeintraubColumbia Ly-αCornell Wind7115
Jiming ChenCornell FireRochester B7115
Dennis YangMichigan AOhio State A9110
Ezra SantosChicago CMichigan B9310
Rohan NavaneethaOhio State BPurdue C10010
Jacob GoodsonOhio State CSIUE B10910
Chris ScheriRITCornell Earth12410
Darryl WangRochester ARochester C12410