Question
Sergei Prokofiev’s 4th Piano Concerto was performed in this manner by Maurice Rapp at its premiere. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this unusual performance method called for in a number of piano pieces commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein.
ANSWER: played with the left hand [accept one handed or played with one hand]
[10e] Wittgenstein premiered this French composer’s two-movement Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. This composer’s other works include the ballet Daphnis et Chloe and a popular Boléro.
ANSWER: Maurice Ravel [or Joseph Maurice Ravel]
[10h] This composer wrote a virtuosic Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand at the request of one-handed pianist Otakar Hollmann. A pipe organ solo makes up the lengthy “Postludium” section of a mass by this composer that uses Old Slavonic text.
ANSWER: Leoš Janáček [or Leo Eugen Janáček] (The other piece is the Glagolitic Mass.)
<Ethan Ashbrook, Fine Arts - Music - 1900 to 1970> ~20858~ <Editor: Young Lee>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
Data
| Kinkaid | Belmont | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Canyon Crest | Thomas Jefferson B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Detroit Catholic Central A | Dallas County | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Northmont A | Choate Rosemary Hall | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Plymouth | Richard Montgomery | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Solon | St. Mark's | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson A | Barrington A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson C | Chattahoochee A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Hinsdale Central | Winston Churchill B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |