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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Southampton B | 19 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Harvard A | 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 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 101 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan C | Michigan State | 101 | -5 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | Harvard B | 101 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 108 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri | Illinois B | 108 | 10 |
| Audrey Evans | Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 108 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 108 | -5 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 108 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Stanford 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 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Missoui S&T | 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 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 129 | -5 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 129 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | UCLA | 129 | 10 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western A | 129 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 129 | 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 |
| Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | Virginia A | 132 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF B | 133 | 0 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Winona State | 133 | 0 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |