Question
Rachmaninoff’s fast recording of this sonata’s third movement grows to a roar that, after a tranquil trio, resumes at a roar then recedes. A final fortissimo is the only dynamic in this sonata’s presto, whose single line drifts up and down in unpedaled sotto voce e legato triplet 8th notes “gossiping in unison.” Some editions lack a repeat sign between this sonata’s 4-bar grave (“gra-vay”) introduction and doppio movimento. This sonata’s 1½-minute perpetuum mobile (“MO-bee-lay”) finale was called the first atonal piece by Ligeti, “wind howling (*) around graves” by Arthur Rubinstein, and sphinxlike by Schumann, who derided the composer’s discomfort with form and said this sonata “bound together his four unruliest children.” Its third movement, inspired by Beethoven’s 12th, is a morbid cortège in B-flat minor. For 10 points, what middle piano sonata written at George Sand’s house contains a march that was played at the composer’s own funeral? ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 14 | 64% | 7% | 43% | 133.89 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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John Lawrence | BHSU B | The Empire Bikes Back | 49 | 15 |
Dylan Minarik | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 64 | -5 |
Richard Niu | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 64 | -5 |
Rahul Keyal | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 66 | -5 |
Vincent Du | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 66 | -5 |
Jorrest Weintraub | The Jeam Team | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 72 | -5 |
Tracy Mirkin | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 89 | -5 |
Kai Smith | Punished "Venom" BHSU | LMM's LLM MLM | 135 | 10 |
Natan Holtzman | Lisan al-Quib | The Oldest Men in the World | 142 | 10 |
William Golden | The Dyatlov Passement incident | We Need New Names | 144 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 147 | 0 |
Christopher Sims | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 147 | 10 |
Ethan Ashbrook | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 147 | 10 |
Eric Chen | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | Les Missourables | 147 | 0 |
Ryan Westbrook | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 147 | 0 |
Sinecio Morales | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 147 | 10 |
Colin Stewart | var merchants | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 147 | 0 |
Kevin Wang | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | The Jeam Team | 147 | 10 |
Charles Hang | Les Missourables | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 147 | 0 |
Anderson Wang | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 147 | 0 |
Jim Fan | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | var merchants | 147 | 0 |
Aidan Mehigan | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 147 | 10 |