Question
This composer had a frosty relationship with Johannes Brahms after being told to discard his lieder and start taking counterpoint lessons, leading to singers refusing to perform his music for fear of being blacklisted. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Austrian composer best known for his tonally ambiguous musical settings of poems by Eduard Mörike and Joseph Eichendorff and for his comic opera Der Corregidor.
ANSWER: Hugo Wolf [or Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf]
[10m] Wolf’s best-known instrumental work is a Serenade named for this country whose main theme is based on the piffero, an ancient oboe. Richard Strauss was sued for plagiarism based on his tone poem titled Aus (“owss”) [this country].
ANSWER: Italy [or Italia; or Italien; accept Italian Serenade or Italienische Serenade; accept Aus Italien or From Italy, Op. 16]
[10e] Hugo Wolf wrote an astonishing 51 art songs based on this German author, whose Erlkönig inspired a lied by Franz Schubert and whose Faust inspired an opera by Charles Gounod.
ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (“GUR-tuh”)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 10.00 | 89% | 11% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 20% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 63% | 38% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Cambridge A | Bristol | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Oxford A | Cambridge B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cambridge C | Oxford B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Durham A | Durham B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Oxford C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial B | Kiel | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Edinburgh | KCL | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Warwick | Sheffield | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |