Round 11: Tossup 17

This composer featured an ironic quotation of Wagner’s Tristan chord in a ragtime-inspired movement from a piano suite by this composer. The first piece in a set of études by this composer is nicknamed “after Carl Czerny” and is “for the five fingers.” Parallel fifths on a pentatonic scale open one entry in this composer’s two books containing 12 preludes each. This composer of “The (*) Sunken Cathedral” composed (10[1])a piece inspired by Paul Verlaine that is followed by a “Passepied” in his Suite Bergamasque. For 10 points, the “impressionist” label was rejected by what French composer of the Children’s Corner Suite and “Clair de Lune?” ■END■

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