Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 - 2025 ACF Regionals

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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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


WashU A	Illinois A	0	10	10	20
WashU B	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Chicago C	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
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
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 A	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
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
Northwestern A	Georgetown A	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame B	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Iowa	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Stanford B	0	0	10	10
Purdue	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Cambridge E	0	10	10	20
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
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
RIT B	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	ESF A	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Cornell C	0	0	10	10