Question
A clarinet solo opens the Adagio cantabile second movement of this composer’s third symphony, which is followed by a third movement Scherzo broken up by a woodwind trio. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this composer. This composer of a Nonet for strings and winds was the only woman to serve as a professor at the Paris Conservatory during the 19th century.
ANSWER: Louise Farrenc [accept Jeanne-Louise Dumont]
[10e] Farrenc’s third symphony is in this minor key. Mozart wrote symphonies nicknamed “Little” and “Great” in this relative minor key of B-flat major.
ANSWER: G minor
[10m] Farrenc omitted a full brass section from her third symphony, opting to only use two of these instruments. Haydn’s 31st Symphony is nicknamed for this instrument, which also has a prominent solo in the third movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
ANSWER: French horn [accept “Hornsignal” Symphony]
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 40% | 40% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 60% | 40% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |