This author’s analysis of Beethoven’s piano sonatas reveals an attempt at translating music into images, such as arpeggios into sweeping brooms or modulations into swimming fish. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who wrote in Howards End that “it will be generally admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”
ANSWER: E. M. Forster [or Edward Morgan Forster]
[10h] After a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth in Howards End, Helen accidentally takes an “appalling” one of these objects belonging to Leonard Bast.
ANSWER: umbrella
[10m] In a different Forster novel, Mr. Beebe recalls hearing Lucy Honeychurch play Beethoven’s final piano sonata while staying at a pension in this city. Lucy asks George to retrieve her photographs after witnessing a murder in this city.
ANSWER: Florence [or Firenze] (The novel is A Room with a View.)
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