Question
Apocryphally, this symphony’s composer declared “Beethoven won’t object!” when he chose to write it in D minor. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this symphony whose “heavenly finale” was left incomplete at its composer’s death, despite its dedication to “the beloved God.” This symphony’s third movement Adagio was described as a “farewell to life” and contains the entire chromatic scale in its main theme.
ANSWER: Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 [or Bruckner’s Ninth; or Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor; or WAB 109]
[10m] Performances of Bruckner’s Ninth often use his C major setting of this Latin hymn as a final movement. A setting of this hymn by Marc-Antoine Charpentier provides the opening theme for Eurovision.
ANSWER: Te Deum [accept Te Deum laudamus]
[10e] While early drafts of Bruckner’s Ninth quote his Te Deum, later drafts instead quote the “Hallelujah” chorus from this oratorio by Handel.
ANSWER: Messiah [or HWV 56]
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Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 100% | 40% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 25% | 13% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont A | UCSD | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Florida A | Florida State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Valencia A | Florida B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UCF B | UCF C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan B | Kenyon | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan State | Carnegie Mellon A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Michigan C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State B | Case Western A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Michigan D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WashU A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WashU B | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Indiana A | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago D | Indiana B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Missoui S&T | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Missouri | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Winona State | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Carleton | Wisconsin A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Harvard B | BU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Dartmouth A | UMass Boston | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Tufts A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Brown A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Georgetown A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Notre Dame A | Iowa | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern B | Stanford B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue | Notre Dame C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Texas B | TAMU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Texas A | ASU | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech A | Bruin A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Tennessee A | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Bristol | Imperial B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Cambridge A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Oxford C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Cambridge D | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Manchester | Durham | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU C | Warwick A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oxford B | Cambridge C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Sheffield | Warwick B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE | Southampton A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Southampton B | Cambridge E | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Vassar A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | George Washington B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Haverford B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland B | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Haverford A | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| John Jay College | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | George Washington A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| RIT B | Binghamton A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell D | ESF A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| RIT A | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |