C minor - 2025 ACF Nationals

Bonus

From his first piano sonata onward, Beethoven was fond of prestissimo (“preh-STEE-see-moh”) passages for piano. For 10 points each:

[10e] A prestissimo finale ends his Piano Sonata No. 5, Opus 10 No. 1, his first to employ this key’s stormy “mood.” Beethoven chose this minor key with three flats again for his Pathétique Sonata.

ANSWER: C minor [reject “C” or “C major”]

[10m] The prestissimo coda to this piano sonata’s rondo features octave glissandi for the right hand. Beethoven dedicated this C-major piano sonata to its namesake nobleman.

ANSWER: Waldstein Sonata [or Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Opus 53 (accept either underlined portion)]

[10h] This Beethoven sonata’s prestissimo middle movement and short first movement are dwarfed by its variations finale, marked “Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung (“guh-ZAHNG-foll, mit IN-nick-ster EMP-fin-dung”).” Its opening movement begins with a repeated rising third, falling fourth melody in a sixteenth – dotted eighth rhythm.

ANSWER: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Opus 109 [accept either underlined portion]

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Total	Parts
Chicago A	North Carolina A	10	0	10	E
Georgia State	NYU	10	0	10	E
Iowa State	Cornell A	10	10	20	EM
Minnesota	Harvard	10	10	20	EM
Northwestern	Illinois A	10	10	20	EM
Penn State	Waterloo B	10	0	10	E
Stanford	Columbia A	10	10	20	EM
Toronto A	Indiana	10	10	20	EM
Toronto C	Virginia Tech	10	0	10	E
UC Berkeley B	British Columbia	10	0	10	E
Virginia	Columbia B	10	0	10	E
Waterloo A	WUSTL A	10	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	12	14.17	100%	42%	0%