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 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial B | 67 | -5 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 67 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago C | 69 | 10 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | WashU A | 93 | -5 |
| Luke Robitaille | MIT A | BU | 94 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Sheffield | 95 | 10 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | Yale A | 95 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Michigan A | 95 | -5 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | Harvard B | 101 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 101 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan C | Michigan State | 101 | -5 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 108 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | John Jay College | 108 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 108 | -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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Missoui S&T | 119 | 10 |
| Ruth Ní Mhuircheartaigh | Cambridge E | Manchester | 120 | -5 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 122 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | WashU 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 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 129 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | UCLA | 129 | 10 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western A | 129 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 129 | -5 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 129 | 10 |
| Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | Virginia A | 132 | 10 |
| Christopher Joseph | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 132 | 0 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | William & Mary | 132 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | Duke | 132 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF B | 133 | 0 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida B | 133 | 0 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT A | 133 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | UMass Boston | 133 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 133 | 0 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 133 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 133 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | ESF 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 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Chicago A | 133 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Winona State | 133 | 0 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 133 | 0 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Georgetown B | 133 | 0 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Southampton A | 133 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Cambridge E | 133 | 10 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Oxford A | 133 | 0 |
| Peter Lutz | George Washington B | George Washington A | 133 | 0 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | George Washington B | 133 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 133 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Valencia A | 133 | 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 |