The first in a set of three pieces by this composer opens with an E-flat minor theme over triplet arpeggios, followed by a restatement in the parallel major. Extremely slow interpretations of the first movement of a late piano sonata by this composer were popularized by Sviatoslav Richter, who switched from Bösendorfer to Steinway to record a fantasy by this composer that opens with thundering C major chords in a “long, short-short” rhythm. Brahms edited a set of “three piano pieces” by this composer initially intended to be a third set of four impromptus. This composer declared “the devil may play it” in reference to his challenging Wanderer Fantasy. For 10 points, name this German composer whose hundreds of Lieder include settings of Goethe in Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel and Der Erlkönig. ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 126.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 127.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 130.40 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 102.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 116.50 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 98.80 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 40% | 84.33 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 101.33 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 102.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 0% | 84.00 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 128.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Harvard A | 19 | 10 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Southampton B | 19 | 10 |
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | Texas B | 27 | 10 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Iowa | 37 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Maryland A | 42 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Durham | 46 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | UNC B | 49 | -5 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 53 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech C | 60 | -5 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Chicago B | 61 | 10 |
| Ivvone Zhou | Penn A | Vassar A | 63 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Purdue | 63 | -5 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 67 | 10 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 67 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial B | 67 | -5 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago C | 69 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | WashU A | 93 | -5 |
| Luke Robitaille | MIT A | BU | 94 | -5 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | Yale A | 95 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Michigan A | 95 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Sheffield | 95 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 101 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | Harvard B | 101 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan C | Michigan State | 101 | -5 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri | Illinois B | 108 | 10 |
| Audrey Evans | Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 108 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 108 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 108 | -5 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 108 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | John Jay College | 108 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Stanford B | 108 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Oxford C | 111 | -5 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Brandeis A | 113 | -5 |
| Sarah Henderson | Cambridge C | NYU C | 115 | -5 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Missoui S&T | 119 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | UCF C | 119 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT A | 119 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Kenyon | 119 | 10 |
| Joshua Garner | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 119 | 10 |
| Ruth Ní Mhuircheartaigh | Cambridge E | Manchester | 120 | -5 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | WashU B | 122 | 10 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 122 | 10 |
| Catherine Major | Wake Forest | UNC C | 123 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Bristol | 124 | 10 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 125 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | UCLA | 129 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 129 | -5 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 129 | 10 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western A | 129 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 129 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | William & Mary | 132 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | Duke | 132 | 10 |
| Christopher Joseph | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 132 | 0 |
| Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | Virginia A | 132 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 133 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | South Carolina | 133 | 0 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina | UNC D | 133 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Winona State | 133 | 0 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 133 | 0 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Georgetown B | 133 | 0 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF B | 133 | 0 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida B | 133 | 0 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Chicago A | 133 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT A | 133 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | UMass Boston | 133 | 10 |
| Peter Lutz | George Washington B | George Washington A | 133 | 0 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | George Washington B | 133 | 0 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 133 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | ESF A | 133 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 133 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Valencia A | 133 | 10 |
| Xavier Migliaccio | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan D | 133 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Case Western B | 133 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Michigan C | 133 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 133 | 0 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 133 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Southampton A | 133 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Cambridge E | 133 | 10 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Oxford A | 133 | 0 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge C | 133 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Warwick A | 133 | 0 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Oxford B | 133 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Warwick B | 133 | 0 |