Packet 9: Tossup 10

Television footage from Vladimir Horowitz’s 1986 Moscow performance of (15[1])a piece by this composer fades into a gray-haired man with a single teardrop running down his cheek. The movements Knecht Ruprecht and a Happy Farmer (15[1])appear in this composer’s (15[1])Album (15[1])for the Young. (15[2]-5[3])A piano suite (15[3]-5[1])by this composer (15[1])contains (15[1])movements (-5[1])titled (-5[1])“Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” (15[1])and “The Poet Speaks,” (-5[2])as well as a (15[1])nostalgic (15[1])movement titled (*) “Traumerei.” (10[1])21 (10[1])short pieces (-5[1])make up a piano suite by this man depicting a masked ball before Lent. For 10 points, name this German Romantic composer of Carnaval (-5[1])and Scenes from (10[1])Childhood, (10[2])who (10[1])dedicated (10[1]-5[1])many of his works to his wife, (10[2])Clara. ■END■ (10[12]0[6])

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