Round 1: Tossup 17

Just before this movement's retransition, winds and strings trade pianissimo B diminished seventh chords before the first theme loudly returns on the pitches A-flat and F. In “New Horizons in Music Appreciation,” Gifford Nielsen and Peter Schickele (“SHICK-uh-lee”) commentate over this movement as if it’s a football game. When this movement recapitulates a half cadence ending with a fermata on G, the first oboe plays an unexpected adagio cadenza. A motif introduced in this movement, which inspired the start of (*) Tchaikovsky’s fourth symphony, later interrupts its symphony’s joyous finale in the parallel C major. This Allegro con brio movement begins with strings and clarinets playing “G, G, (10[2])G, long E-flat.” For 10 points, “fate knocks at the door” in what movement that opens a Beethoven symphony? ■END■

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