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A 2023 Thomas Guthrie opera titled for this singer features music originally written for members of this singer’s family. The names of this singer and a sister, Sophie (“so-FEE-eh”), were written above a sighing motif in a B-flat major piano sonata fragment. Music written for this singer includes an E-flat major “Christe Eleison” with a near-two octave jump on the final cadential chord and an F major “Et incarnatus est,” both in an incomplete C minor mass. This singer employed Maximilian (*) Stadler to manage her estate. This singer wrote a biography of her first husband with her second husband, Georg Nikolaus von Nissen. (10[1])This woman’s husband wrote a symphony in four days in Linz on her first trip to her in-laws in Salzburg. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this woman (10[1])who claimed she gave “scraps of paper” to Franz Xaver Süssmayr (10[1])to complete the last work of her husband, Wolfgang Amadeus (-5[1])Mozart. ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Constanze Weber Mozart [prompt on Constanze; prompt on Mozart or Weber]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sky LiSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country10110
Maude-Sophie Lockmanas rational as the square root of two power bottomsYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit124-5
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha12710
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere13810
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 148-5
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers1500
Jared HeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitas rational as the square root of two power bottoms1500

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