Round 9: Tossup 10

Television footage from Vladimir Horowitz’s 1986 Moscow performance of 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 appear in this composer’s Album for the Young. A piano suite (-5[1])by this composer contains movements titled “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” and “The Poet Speaks,” (-5[1])as well as a nostalgic movement titled (*) “Traumerei.” 21 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 and Scenes from Childhood, who dedicated many of his works to his wife, Clara. ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Robert Schumann [prompt on Schumann]
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