Round 13: Tossup 12

A piano piece by this composer begins with planed parallel fifths that depict the title building “in a sweetly sonorous fog.” Like many of his works, a piece by this composer whose title can be translated as “veils” or “sails” is based on the whole-tone scale. This composer included “Dialogue of the wind and the sea” in a set of three “symphonic sketches.” This composer of “The Sunken Cathedral” used Hokusai’s print The Great Wave off Kanagawa on the cover of his orchestral suite La Mer (“MARE”). A poem by Paul Verlaine (“vair-LEN”) inspired this composer’s Suite Bergamasque (“berg-ah-MASK”) for piano. For 10 points, what founder of musical impressionism wrote “Clair de Lune?” ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Claude Debussy [or Achille-Claude Debussy]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Elliot EarleySheffield BEdinburgh A11010

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
Southern CaliforniaMain1100%0%69.00
Eastern Canada (2)Main1100%0%69.00
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain2100%0%64.50
NortheastMain4100%0%92.25
SoutheastMain1100%0%30.00
UK (North)UK1100%0%110.00