Classical Music
TRIVIA QUIZ ANSWERS
- If you were in Vienna in the late 19th century and had gone to the coffeehouse The Red Hedgehog you might have seen a composer who was a regular there. Who?
A: Johannes Brahms
- Antonin Dvorak wrote some of his most beloved music while living in a small Midwestern town name it.
C: Spillville, Iowa
- Which composer was nicknamed the red priest?
B. Antonio Vivaldi
- Giuseppe Tartini wrote a famous violin sonata that came to him in a dream. What's the nickname of this piece?
D: The Devil's Trill
- Louis Spohr claimed that he was the person who first introduced to England a musical implement that is now very well known. What was Spohr referring to?
C: the conductor's baton
- This composer spent the last weeks of his life sick in bed, reading the novels of James Fennimore Cooper. Which composer was this?
A: Franz Schubert
- Name the composer who spent part of his life running an orange plantation in Florida.
D: Fredrick Delius
- What great composer is nicknamed Papa?
A: Franz Joseph Haydn
- This has to do with the title of Handel's Water Music. It's called that because:
B: it was first performed on a barge on the River Thames
- The music of Bach fell into obscurity after his death, until another great composer mounted a famous revival of the St. Matthew Passion. Who was this composer?
A: Felix Mendelssohn
- Frederic Chopin is unusual because he composed almost exclusively for one instrument. What instrument?
A. the piano
- One of the most famous operettas is "Die Fledermaus". What does "Die Fledermaus" mean?
C: the bat
- One of the following composers did NOT compose music based on the theme of the four seasons: Which one?
B: Brahms
- Jean Sibelius is his country's most famous composer. What country?
B: Finland
- Who was the first composer to have one of his works performed in space?
A: Dmitri Shostakovich
- According to the Guiness Book of World Records, who is the most prolific of all composers?
C. Telemann
- What well-known composer & pianist was married in the Hollywood Bowl?
C: Percy Grainger
- Some of the most visible concerts and recordings recently have been the ones featuring the Three Tenors. Which of these does not fit?
D. Carlo Bergonzi
- Who was nicknamed the dean of Afro-American composers?
A. William Grant Still
- If you listened to Minnesota Public Radio during the summer Olympics, you heard a new piece called Javelin commissioned especially for the Olympics, by an acclaimed young composer. Who wrote Javelin?
A: Michael Torke
- What famous composer was also a professional chemist and the author of "On the Analogy of Arsenical with Phosphoric Acid"?
D: Alexander Borodin
- The Pulitzer Prize in music has only been given to a film score once. What composer won it?
A. Virgil Thomson
- Before he took up conducting, Toscanini played in the orchestra what instrument?
A. Cello
- Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony makes use of a familiar hymn. Which one?
A: A Mighty Fortress is Our God
- Every year at King's College, Cambridge, a Festival of Lessons and Carols is presented. How many Lessons?
D. Nine
- Who wrote the Farewell Symphony? At the end of which the musicians gradually stop playing and leave the stage...
C. Franz Joseph Haydn
- Everyone has heard the operatic excerpt in which a singer repeats, "Figaro, Figaro, Figaro." What opera does it come from?
B. Rossini: The Barber of Seville
- To whom did Beethoven originally plan to dedicate his Third Symphony (the "Eroica")?
A. Napoleon
- This composer was born in New Orleans, died in Brazil, and is buried in Brooklyn who is he?
B. Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- Salzburg, Austria is the setting of the musical The Sound of Music what is its other musical claim to fame?
C: birthplace of Mozart
Classical Music Trivia Quiz
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