Packet 1: Tossup 2

David Ledbetter’s book Continuo Playing According to this composer is based on exercises this composer wrote for a king’s daughters. Two prelude-fugue pairs (-5[1])by J.S. Bach and four suites by this composer comprise Glenn Gould’s only harpsichord album. (10[1])This composer’s keyboard works were revived in the 19th century as part of a 105-volume Gesellschaft (“guh-ZELL-shahft”) named for him, edited by Friedrich Chrysander. This composer wrote a theme beginning (10[1])with the eighth notes (-5[1])E, G-sharp, F-sharp, high B for a set of E-major variations. (-5[1])An “air” in B-flat-major by this composer was the basis of variations and a fugue by Brahms. (10[3])An orchestral arrangement (10[1]-5[2])of the (-5[1])Sarabande from this composer’s D-minor (-5[1])keyboard (-5[1])suite was used in the film Barry Lyndon. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the striking of an anvil apocryphally (10[3]-5[1])inspired what Baroque composer’s “The Harmonious (10[1])Blacksmith”? (10[3])■END■ (10[5]0[5])

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