Question
One composer wrote music for a Cornelia Knight ode about this battle, to be sung by its victorious commander’s lover, then gave it to her along with a copy of his cantata Ariadne in Naxos. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this battle. The apocryphal Vienna performance of that composer’s Missa in Angustiis for this battle’s winning commander on his return home led to the mass’s common nickname.
ANSWER: Battle of the Nile [or Battle of Aboukir Bay] (These pieces are by Haydn.)
[10m] This Beethoven orchestral work was initially played on the Panharmonicon, a mechanical orchestra created by the inventor of the metronome, Johann Maelzel. Dedicated to the later George IV, it quotes “Rule, Britannia” and “God Save the King” to celebrate another French defeat in the Napoleonic Wars.
ANSWER: Wellington’s Victory, or The Battle of Vitoria [accept The Battle of Vitoria; accept either underlined part of Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria; accept Battle Symphony or Siegessinfonie]
[10e] The most famous piece to celebrate a French defeat in the Napoleonic Wars is a Tchaikovsky overture featuring cannon fire, named for this year of the failed French invasion of Russia.
ANSWER: 1812 [accept 1812 Overture]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Thompson et al. | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UBC | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |