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Leopold Godowsky’s heavily virtuosic incomplete solo piano transcription of three of these pieces followed a complete effort by Joachim Raff. Joseph Joachim recommended that Clara Schumann burn a complete piano accompaniment to these pieces by her husband. (10[1])The “Westphal” and “Kellner” manuscripts are often cited as authoritative in preparing editions of these pieces, along with that of the composer’s wife Anna (10[1])Magdalena. The galanteries (10[2])of these six-movement pieces, (10[1])which transition between minuet, bourree, (10[1])and gavotte, (10[2]-5[1])are the only (10[1])structural (10[1])differences between them. The D major sixth of these pieces was written for an instrument (10[1])with five strings. (10[1]-5[2])These (10[1]-5[1])solo pieces were considered studies until the 20th century, (10[2])when Pablo (10[1])Casals (10[1])began to perform (10[1])them. (10[1])For 10 points, name these six large-scale works for solo string instrument by a Baroque (-5[1])composer. (0[1])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: J. S. Bach’s cello suites [accept Johann Sebastian Bach in place of “J. S. Bach”; prompt on cello suites by asking “by what composer?”; prompt on suites]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2492%0%21%90.64

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Max BrodskyIllinois ASouth Carolina A3610
Natan HoltzmanStanford AYale A6010
Drake EshlemanIndiana AMIT A6310
Jacob EgolDuke ACornell A6310
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AFlorida A6710
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BHouston A7210
Arjun NageswaranHarvard AToronto A74-5
Anson BernsBrown AMaryland A7410
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AVanderbilt A7410
Karan GurazadaTexas ANorthwestern A7710
Shardul RaoMinnesota ACornell B7810
Daniel YangChicago BOhio State A9310
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BVirginia A96-5
Robert CondronChicago CUC Berkeley A9610
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AChicago A96-5
Vishal KanigicherlaPenn AGeorgia Tech B97-5
Aum MundheRutgers AYale B9710
Vinu HariharUC Berkeley BJohns Hopkins A10610
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BMichigan A10610
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AColumbia A10810
Kevin ParkClaremont AMcGill A10910
Michael MaysImperial AFlorida B11210
Ameya PhadnisRutgers BNYU A11310
Ani PerumallaPenn State AIowa State A128-5
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BPenn A1290
Sky LiToronto AHarvard A13010
Joseph ChambersVirginia AWUSTL B13010
Matt JacksonChicago AWUSTL A13010