Question

This country inspired a dark piano work with an opening triplet motif of [read slowly] D, C-sharp, F-sharp, then (10[1])long E-sharp. Paris’s Revue musicale popularized a composer from this country by publishing her salon piece “A Maiden’s Prayer.” A wind chorale consisting (10[1])of three four-chord gestures opens the Piano Concerto No. 2 in E major by a composer born in this country who wrote the popular encore piece Étincelles (“ay-tan-SEL”). This country’s pianist Julian Fontana shared rooms with a composer who dedicated a piece to him written in one of this country’s five national dance forms. An F-sharp minor Opus 44 “Tragic” piece in that form by a composer from this country is often grouped with (10[1])the “Military” (10[1])and a piece nicknamed by George Sand, (10[2])the “Heroic.” For (10[2])10 points, the mazurka is a dance from what home country of Frédéric Chopin? ■END■

ANSWER: Poland [or Republic of Poland; or Rzeczpospolita Polska] (Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska composed “A Maiden’s Prayer.” Moritz Moszkowski composed the Piano Concerto No. 2 in E major, Op. 59.)
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