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 by this composer contains movements (-5[1])titled “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples” (15[1])and “The Poet Speaks,” as well as a (15[1])nostalgic movement titled (*) “Traumerei.” 21 (10[1])short pieces 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[1]0[2])

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