Composer and genre required. One of these works is the last track of an album marketed as “The Legendary 1965 Recording” of Martha Argerich. One of these works in E major begins with a passage in double octaves, where the right hand alternates single notes and octaves, and the left hand does the opposite, in a thirty-second, double-dotted-eighth rhythm. In the middle section of one of these pieces, the left hand repeats the sixteenth-note ostinato E, D-sharp, C-sharp, B in octaves. One of these works in E-flat is preceded by a G-major “Andante Spianato.” The first of these works in their composer’s Opus 40 features the genre’s typical rhythm of eighth, two sixteenths, and four eighths in 3/4 time. For 10 points, pieces nicknamed “Military” and “Heroic” are examples of what nationalistic dances by the composer of the Minute Waltz? ■END■
ANSWER: polonaises by Frédéric Chopin [or polonaises by Frédéric François Chopin; or polonaises by Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin]
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= Average correct buzz position