Round 6: Tossup 9

At the age of 14, this musician was brought to live at Stepleton House in England under the patronage of Peter Beckford. A different composer asserted that this man “has not a kreuzer’s worth of taste or feeling” and called him “a mere mechanic.” A simple piano piece by this composer begins with a quarter note C, eighth notes E and C, and two staccato (-5[1])G quarter notes. (10[2]-5[1])This (10[1])[emphasize] foreigner (10[1])played his Opus 24 No. 2 Sonata in B-flat major during an event judged by Emperor Franz Joseph II to have ended in a draw. (10[2])Carl Czerny (10[1]-5[2])(“CHAIR-nee”) created a (10[1])“Nouveau” sequel to a collection (10[1])of 100 (10[1])pieces (-5[1])by (10[1])this composer, which was satirized in the first movement of Debussy’s Children’s Corner (10[1])suite. For 10 points, what Italian (10[1])“father of the pianoforte” (10[1]-5[1])composed the étude collection Gradus ad Parnassum (10[1])and faced off against Mozart in a 1781 (10[1])piano duel? ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

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