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Topic: Musical Madness 2025! The defending champion is eliminated!  (Read 997 times)

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Link to the form for voting: https://forms.gle/tewbkTJuXLSPyiL49

Pieces in the matches:

Match #59
Liszt - S. 137 no. 5 Feux Follets (1837)
Chopin - Ballade no. 4

Match #60
Liszt - S. 252 Rondeau Fantastique "El Contrabandista"
Liszt - Etudes d'Exécution Transcendante d'Après Paganini no. 4b


Current bracket: https://challonge.com/musicalmadness2025
The first pieces in the Final Four: Czerny - Op. 268 mvt. 4 and Saint-Saëns - Op. 111 no. 6 "Toccata d’Après le Cinquième Concerto."
Eliminated in the Elite Eight: Liszt - Études d'Exécution Transcendante d'Après Paganini no. 3 "La Campanella" and Liszt - Grand Galop Chromatique (defending champion).


Results page on MM website: https://sites.google.com/view/musicalmadness-ps/voting-results
Matches/results spreadsheet: https://1drv.ms/x/c/373bca7cb13fd958/ERCeNi1RJdVCuYiYk2KhQlkBEpSOnfoDFbYla3MknPz-vA?e=oxosxa&nav=MTVfezAwMDAwMDAwLTAwMDEtMDAwMC0wMDAwLTAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMH0
Full results will be added in a couple hours. In the meantime, check the bracket for vote counts!

NOTE: The website page “Schedule for 2025” has (finally) been updated to reflect the delays in the Round of 16.
This thread also doubles as the official discussion thread for these two matches and the results of the previous two.
Voting closes at 5:00 PM on April 7th, 2025 (US Eastern time).

Edit: I fixed the link to the form. Previously it linked to Matches 57-58, but it now correctly links to matches 59-60. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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