Packet 2: Bonus 14
Some commentators have suggested that this piece’s turbulent C-minor middle movement was inspired by the death of the composer’s mother, Anna Maria, the previous year. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this piece that is unusual for dividing the viola section in two and for having a solo viola part that is notated in D major but sounds in E-flat major, because the solo viola is tuned a half-step sharp.
ANSWER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major [or K. 364; prompt on sinfonia concertante by asking “whose sinfonia concertante?”]
[10e] The Sinfonia Concertante is one of the first pieces Mozart wrote after returning to this city in 1779. Mozart was born in this Austrian city.
ANSWER: Salzburg
[10m] An article by musicologist Caryl Clark reimagines that the violin part in the Sinfonia Concertante was premiered by this French composer of African descent who led the Concert de la Loge Olympique and composed the opera L’amant anonyme (“la-MAWN ah-no-NEEM”).
ANSWER: Joseph Bologne [or Chevalier de Saint-Georges]
<Virginia Tech, Classical Music> | B. Prelims 2 - Northwestern A + Virginia Tech + Brown + Penn State
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 15.71 | 95% | 62% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | UCF | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgetown | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech A | WashU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois A | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois B | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | Pittsburgh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland B | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU B | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| North Carolina | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Bruin | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Swarthmore | Texas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia | Cambridge | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 15.71 | 95% | 62% | 0% |