Question
Rachmaninoff’s fast recording of this sonata’s third movement grows to a roar that, after a tranquil trio, resumes at a roar then recedes. A final fortissimo is the only dynamic in this sonata’s presto, whose single line drifts up and down in unpedaled sotto voce e legato triplet 8th notes “gossiping in unison.” Some editions lack a repeat sign between this sonata’s 4-bar grave (“gra-vay”) introduction and doppio movimento. This sonata’s 1½-minute perpetuum mobile (“MO-bee-lay”) finale was called the first atonal piece by Ligeti, “wind howling (*) around graves” by Arthur Rubinstein, and sphinxlike by Schumann, who derided the composer’s discomfort with form and said this sonata “bound together his four unruliest children.” Its third movement, inspired by Beethoven’s 12th, is a morbid cortège in B-flat minor. For 10 points, what middle piano sonata written at George Sand’s house contains a march that was played at the composer’s own funeral? ■END■
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 14 | 64% | 7% | 43% | 133.89 |