The Spanish (Hispanic) composers...none of them
are particularly obscure at all. Granados and de
Falla especially are pretty familiar to pianists, and
Albinez is a legitimate question. All of them came up
elsewhere at some point in my playing career. I don't think
those are overly obscure at
all.
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With respect to Victoria, I would disagree in that
these questions are geared to high school students and
novice college students, not for upper level QB players.
I can't name one work of Granados, even after 5
semesters of music history. Albeniz and de Falla I admit
are knowable, but then again, high school students
cannot be expected to know even one of these. Most of
these students can't even name a single work of Brahms
or any of the Russian Five. There should be
challenging questions in high school play, but this
particular one is of an inappropriate difficulty.
Jason Paik
Washington University Academic Team