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 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Purdue | 63 | -5 |
| Ivvone Zhou | Penn A | Vassar A | 63 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial B | 67 | -5 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 67 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 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 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Michigan A | 95 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Sheffield | 95 | 10 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | Yale A | 95 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan C | Michigan State | 101 | -5 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | Harvard B | 101 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 101 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 108 | -5 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri | Illinois B | 108 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Stanford B | 108 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 108 | 10 |
| Audrey Evans | Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 108 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 108 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | John Jay College | 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 |
| 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 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT A | 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 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western A | 129 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 129 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 129 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 129 | -5 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | UCLA | 129 | 10 |
| Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | Virginia A | 132 | 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 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF B | 133 | 0 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida B | 133 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Winona State | 133 | 0 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 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 |
| 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 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | Chicago A | 133 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Georgetown B | 133 | 0 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Southampton A | 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 |