Question
A scathing review by Rudolf Louis provoked this composer to reply with “I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me!” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this German composer who borrowed a lilting, dotted theme in A major from an earlier composer for a set of variations and a fugue.
ANSWER: Max Reger (“RAY-gur”) [or Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger]
[10e] Reger took the theme from his Variations and Fugue from this composer’s 11th piano sonata, whose third movement is a “Rondo alla Turca.”
ANSWER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
[10m] A rare example of a triple-sharp appears in the second of Reger’s two sonatas for this instrument. Mozart’s Kegelstatt trio features piano, viola, and this instrument played by Anton Stadler.
ANSWER: clarinet [accept basset clarinet]
<Claremont, Classical Music>
Summary
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| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
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| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
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| Florida B | Florida State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | UCF B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UCF C | Valencia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan D | Michigan C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke | Wake Forest | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Liberty A | Liberty C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina | UNC C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC B | UNC D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia A | William & Mary | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Case Western A | Michigan B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan State | Kenyon | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana A | Illinois C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Missouri | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WashU A | WashU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Wisconsin A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Winona State | Carleton | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Brandeis B | Tufts A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard B | UMass Boston | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgetown B | Notre Dame A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Iowa | Northwestern B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Notre Dame C | Stanford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Dartmouth A | BU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Alberta | UW B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UBC | UW A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| ASU | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| TAMU | Texas B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech D | Louisville A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Tennessee A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton A | Bristol | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Southampton B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge C | Durham | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE | Warwick B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Manchester | Oxford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge E | NYU C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sheffield | Oxford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge D | Oxford C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Warwick A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia C | George Washington A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | George Washington B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vassar A | Haverford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| ESF A | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| RIT A | Binghamton A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell D | RIT B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Haverford B | Penn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | John Jay College | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |