Question
Answer the following about famous owners of the many notable violins made by Giuseppe Guarneri, for 10 points each.
[10e] One of Guarneri’s violins is nicknamed “Il Cannone” based on the powerful sound that it created in the hands of this Italian virtuoso, who is best-known for a set of 24 violin caprices.
ANSWER: Niccolò Paganini
[10h] One of the best-known Guarneris is named for its ownership by this 19th-century Belgian violinist whose pupils included Eugène Ysaÿe (“oo-ZHEN ee-ZYE”). His seven completed violin concertos include his fifth in A minor, nicknamed Le Grétry.
ANSWER: Henri Vieuxtemps (“on-REE vyoo-TAWM”) [or Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps]
[10m] The last known Guarneri was owned for several decades by Ole Bull (“OO-luh BOOL”), an influential violin virtuoso from this country. Another composer from this country wrote a Piano Concerto in A minor strongly influenced by Robert Schumann.
ANSWER: Norway [or Kingdom of Norway or Kongeriket Norge] (The composer is Edvard Grieg.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 11 | 13.64 | 100% | 27% | 9% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley C | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford C | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Binghamton | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | RIT A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| RIT B | Cornell C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty A (Grad) | Duke A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| GWU A (UG) | JMU B (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| JMU A (UG) | Liberty B (DII) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC D (DII) | Liberty C (DII) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| William & Mary A (UG) | Roanoke College A (DII) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A (Grad) | UNC B (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UNC C (UG) | Virginia A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia B (UG) | Maryland C (DII) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC A (Grad) | Virginia C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC A (Grad) | Virginia C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC A (Grad) | Virginia C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC A (Grad) | Virginia C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC A (Grad) | Virginia C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC A (Grad) | Virginia C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC A (Grad) | Virginia C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC A (Grad) | Virginia C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont A | Iowa A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UBC A | Michigan State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | Rice A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Sorbonne | Iowa B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A&M A | UW A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Appalachian State | Texas A&M B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State | Minnesota C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Arizona State | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Haverford | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| John Jay | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia C | Rowan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan B | Michigan A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Michigan C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Kenyon | Ohio State B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Sheffield | Bristol | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Warwick | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Durham A | Imperial A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford C | Durham B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Geodesic | Vanderbilt B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Alabama | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Harding | MTSU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech B | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Tennessee | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland B (UG) | GWU B (Grad) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |