Question
As a music critic, this man published over 800 articles using a pseudonym with three asterisks, in which he expressed his dislike of music written before Beethoven and denounced modernists like Vincent d’Indy (“van-SAWN dan-DEE”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this amateur composer and military engineer, whose music reached a peak of popularity during World War I with his anti-German one-act opera Mademoiselle Fifi.
ANSWER: César Cui (“KYOO-ee”)
[10e] Cui was a member of a group of this many Russian nationalist composers that was dubbed the “Mighty Handful,” although that did not stop him from lambasting fellow member Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov.
ANSWER: five [accept “The Five” or “The Mighty Five”]
[10m] Cui harshly criticized Anton, a virtuoso pianist from this family whose pedagogy emphasized Western European methods. Nikolai, another virtuoso from this family, became a champion of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.
ANSWER: Rubinstein family [accept Anton Rubinstein or Nikolai Rubinstein]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| Cambridge A | Cambridge B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford C | Cambridge C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial B | Durham A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Edinburgh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Sheffield | KCL | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Kiel | Bristol | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford B | Durham B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Warwick | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |