Note to players: Composer and type of piece required. The Opus 23 collection of 10 of these pieces was dedicated to the composer’s teacher and cousin Alexander Siloti. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this cycle of pieces completed by an Opus 32 collection in the remaining 13 keys. In cries for an encore, audiences would shout the key of the first of these pieces, which opens with three pounding descending octaves.
ANSWER: preludes by Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
[10e] The opening notes of Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp minor led it to be nicknamed for these instruments “of Moscow.” Rachmaninoff’s first symphony is titled for these large metal instruments, which are sounded by a carillon in clock towers called campanile (“kam-pah-NEE-lay”).
ANSWER: bells
[10m] This other Russian composer of a cycle of 24 preludes in every key included low bells along with a “mystic chord” in The Poem of Ecstasy.
ANSWER: Alexander Scriabin [or Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin]
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