Musical Madness 2026! All-Stravinsky GRAND FINAL + awards voting!

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Link to the form for voting: https://forms.gle/dYSqFWTYG1H2PUXy7

Pieces in the matches:
Stravinsky/Agosti - The Firebird
Stravinsky - Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka

Awards voting:
Third place match
Upset Award
“Cinderella” Award

Current bracket: https://challonge.com/musicalmadness26

Winners of the previous matchups: The Firebird and Petrushka. Full results are available on challonge.

This thread also doubles as the official discussion thread for this match and the results of the previous one.

Voting closes at 8:00 PM on April 9th, 2026 (US Eastern time). Results will be posted at 8:00 PM on April 10th, 2026 (US Eastern time).

Apologies for this match being delayed a few minutes.

[the_franzliszt]

Ughhh....ummm, there is way harder piano repertoire than Stravinsky, but I guess I will go with,

Petrouchka
3rd place winner, Ravel, Cziffra does not deserve it
Cinderella story: Faure Ballade
Upset: Tiger Waltz (Didnt look at every single matchup in the category)

[thorn]

I went the same except Cziffra for 3rd place (I prefer the Ravel but I'm being fair)

And a nomination I totally forgot to make but think is the sort of piece that would've done well is the final movement of Bartok's Out of Doors. One of the hardest LHs I've ever seen. The complete suite is still my favourite Bartok though!

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Petrouchka
3rd place winner, Ravel, Cziffra does not deserve it
Cinderella story: Faure Ballade
Upset: Tiger Waltz (Didnt look at every single matchup in the category)

Mostly same here, though I think La Valse actually is more difficult than the Cziffra and I went with Chopin Ballade no. 4 beating La Fantaisie Roumaine for the upset (mostly because I thought it deserved a vote even though Tiger Rag beating Eritaña is probably going to win in a landslide lol).

And a nomination I totally forgot to make but think is the sort of piece that would've done well is the final movement of Bartok's Out of Doors. One of the hardest LHs I've ever seen. The complete suite is still my favourite Bartok though!

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Honestly I'm not really a fan of Out of Doors. I'm thinking about including his Sonata next year, though.

Honestly, I have so many pieces in mind for next year lmfao.

[thorn]

Honestly, I have so many pieces in mind for next year lmfao.

If an avenue is made for including less common pieces next year I might shamelessly nominate one of my own transcriptions xD

[liszt-and-the-galops]

If an avenue is made for including less common pieces next year I might shamelessly nominate one of my own transcriptions xD

Honestly, I don't really like the idea of people being able to nominate their own pieces. Transcriptions are definitely more of a grey area though; I'll think about it. :)

[thorn]

I said that tongue in cheek, I wouldn't actually lol.

But the part about somehow making space for uncommon rep was serious.

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Voting is now closed and final results will be posted at 10:00 PM tomorrow (US Eastern)!