Packet 4: Tossup 4

A performance of one of this composer’s concertos was the first time that pianist Đặng Thái Sơn played with an orchestra. (10[1])The finale of this composer’s first piano concerto opens with the strings playing the fortissimo unison eighth notes C-sharp, D-sharp, down to G-sharp, (10[2])falsely suggesting that the movement is in C-sharp minor. It is disputed whether the Larghetto movement of this composer’s first piano concerto was inspired by a man named Tytus, who may have been his lover. This composer’s only two piano concerti, which are in E major and F minor, (10[2])were premiered in 1830. This composer’s (10[1])variations on Mozart’s (10[1])“La ci (10[1])darem (10[1])la mano” (10[3]-5[1])led Robert (10[2])Schumann (10[1])to say (10[1])of him, (10[1])“Hats off, gentlemen, a genius!” For 10 points, the international piano competition named (10[1])for what composer includes prizes for piano concerto, mazurka, and polonaise? (10[2])■END■ (10[1])

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