Niccolò Paganini - 2024 ACF Regionals

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
Maryland B (UG)	GWU B (Grad)	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
Iowa State	Minnesota C	10	10	10	30
Arizona State	Minnesota B	10	0	0	10
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
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
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
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