Richard Mühlfeld - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This musician’s performance of concerti by Weber and Spohr at a festival in Meiningen inspired a frequent collaborator to come out of retirement. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this man whom that composer nicknamed “Fräulein Klarinette” (“FROY-line kla-ree-NET”). From 1891 to 1894, this musician premiered that composer’s clarinet trio, clarinet quintet, and two clarinet sonatas.

ANSWER: Richard Mühlfeld

[10e] This composer wrote those pieces for Mühlfeld. This Romantic composer paid homage to his ex-fiancée Agathe in his second string sextet, and he also wrote A German Requiem.

ANSWER: Johannes Brahms

[10m] Joseph Joachim (“YO-sef YO-ah-kim”) called Brahms’s F minor piece for this ensemble the greatest chamber work since the death of Schubert. Schubert wrote an A major piece for an unusual one of these ensembles containing a double bass.

ANSWER: piano quintet [prompt on quintet or Trout Quintet]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	0.00	0%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	7.78	67%	11%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	7.14	57%	14%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	10.00	67%	11%	22%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
UBC B	McGill A	0	10	0	10
Central Florida C	Central Florida B	0	0	0	0
Florida B	Florida A	0	0	0	0
Florida C	Central Florida A	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
William and Mary	Duke	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	James Madison A	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Virginia	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Chicago C	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Chicago E	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	Illinois A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Illinois C	0	0	0	0
Indiana B	Northwestern D	0	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Indiana C	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	NC State B	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	NC State A	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin A	Brandeis B	0	0	0	0
Brown	Bowdoin B	0	10	10	20
MIT	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
Southern Connecticut State	Dartmouth B	0	0	0	0
Harvard B	Yale	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	VCU	0	10	0	10
Washington B	Carleton College	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Claremont	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Minnesota A	10	10	0	20
Missouri A	Washington A	10	10	0	20
Murray State A	Texas A	0	0	0	0
Texas B	Texas A&M A	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Bruin	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	0	0
Louisville B	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
Mississipi State	Georgia Tech B	0	0	0	0
Tennessee A	Sewanee	0	0	0	0
WashU A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh B	Imperial C	0	10	0	10
John Jay	Catholic	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Georgetown	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Vassar	Maryland B	0	0	0	0
NYU A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
NYU C	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	0	0
Rutgers B	Rutgers A	0	0	0	0
Swarthmore	Maryland C	0	10	0	10
LSE	Bristol	0	0	0	0
Cambridge B	Imperial A	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Durham	City St. George's	0	10	0	10
UCL	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	RIT	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0
Penn State	Cornell A	0	10	0	10