Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

Answer the following about C minor symphonies that, like Beethoven’s fifth, end in a major key, for 10 points each.

[10m] This symphony’s composer remarked that “any donkey” could see the similarity between the C major theme of its finale and the “Ode to Joy” in Beethoven’s 9th. This symphony’s perfectionist composer spent 21 years writing it, premiering it in 1876.

ANSWER: Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor [or Brahms’s First Symphony; accept Brahms’s Opus 68]

[10e] A choral finale in E-flat major, rather than C major, ends this composer’s second symphony, “Resurrection.” The Adagietto of this composer’s fifth symphony is often described as a love letter to his wife Alma.

ANSWER: Gustav Mahler

[10h] This C minor symphony ends with a grand C major coda that ties themes from the rest of the symphony, followed by “blazing calm.” Sergiu Celibidache (“CHELL-ee-bee-DOCK-eh”) conducted a 103-minute recording of this penultimate symphony with the Munich Philharmonic.

ANSWER: Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 [or Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony]

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Tufts B	Boston College B	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin B	Clark House	0	0	0	0
MIT	Amherst	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Boston College A	10	10	10	30
Harvard	Yale	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Truman	Missouri	0	10	0	10
WashU	Squidward Community College	10	10	0	20
Penn State	Pitt	10	0	0	10
RIT	Maryland	0	10	0	10
UF A	UF B	10	10	0	20
UCF A	UF C	0	10	0	10
Florida Tech	Valencia	0	0	0	0
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
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