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Classical Music

Is Classical Music your forte? If you know the difference between Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, this category is the one for you. Measure your skills and let your knowledge come to a crescendo with these questions.

What tenor recieved a record 165 curtain calls at a Berlin opera house in 1988?

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Luciano Pavarotti

Which enormously influential classical composer spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Hungarian aristocratic Esterhazy family?

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Joseph Haydn Isolated from other composers and trends in music until the later part of his long life, he was, as he put it, “forced to become original”. He is often called the “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet” because of his important contributions to these genres

What event does Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture commemorate?

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Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow

What are the four operas Rhinegold, Valkyries, Siegfried and Twilight of the Gods, all written by the German composer Richard Wagner collectively called?

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The Ring Cycle/Wagner’s Ring The operas are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied, an epic poem in Middle High German.

Which American composer is renowned for ‘4 minutes 33 seconds’ in which the audience is left waiting for a single note to be played?

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John Cage.

What are the surnames of the Three Tenors?

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Pavarotti, Carraras, Domingo

Which 20th-century German composer is most famous for his Carmina Burana whose best-known movement is “O Fortuna” referenced in numerous movies and television commercials?

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Carl Orff (1895-1982) It was hugely popular in Nazi Germany after its premiere in Frankfurt in 1937, receiving numerous performances.

Which British composer wrote the theme music for the film Murder on the Orient Express?

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Richard Rodney Bennett.

Which composer’s real first names are Hoagland Howard?

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Hoagy Carmichael.

The Voyager Golden Record is a phonograph record included in the two Voyager spacecraft that contains 27 selected recordings said to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. Who is the most represented artist?

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Johann Sebastian Bach Bach’s compositions comprise three of the 27 recordings chosen.

Which composer wrote much of his finest music when he was deaf?

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Beethoven.

Which composer transcribed birdsong and incorporated it into much of his work?

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Messiaen.

Who joined Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti to tour, and record as The Three Tenors?

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Placido Domoingo.

Which composer was born on exactly the same day as TV evangelist Pat Robertson?

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Stephen Sondheim.

Traditionally believed to be a set of variations from ‘I know that my redeemer liveth’ from Handel’s Messiah, what is the most common name for a melody used by a set of clock bells to strike the hour?

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Westminster Chimes It was written in 1793 for a new clock in St Mary the Great, the University Church in Cambridge and there is some doubt over exactly who composed it. In the mid-19th century the chime was adopted by the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster (where Big Ben hangs), whence its fame spread. It is now possibly the most commonly used chime for striking clocks.

What musical masterpiece commemorates a battle fought at a place called Borodino?

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The 1812 overture

What did tenor Richard Versalle do at a Metropolitan Opera performance, after delivering the line: ” Too bad you can only live so long”?

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Die.

What is the name for the art of clipping hedges into shapes called?

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Topiary

What book by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White that is one of the most influential prescriptive treatments of English grammar in the US is often required reading in high schools?

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The Elements of Style E.B. White is best known as the author of children’s books Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little.

What academy is sometimes dubbed “Canoe U.”?

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The U.S. Naval Academy.

RULE BRITANNIA’ IS THE WORK OF WHICH COMPOSER?

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THOMAS ARNE

WHOSE ‘VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY PAGANINI’ IS A STANDARD PART OF THE PIANO REPERTOIRE?

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RACHMANINOFF

WHO WROTE THE FIREBIRD SUITE AND THE EBONY CONCERTO FOR A SWING BAND?

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IGOR STRAVINSKY

What classical conductor won posthumous Grammy Awards in 1991, 1992, and 1993?

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Leonard Bernstein

What famous character in literature was inspired by an Augustinian monk named Alonso Quizado?

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Don Quixote.

WHO COMPOSED LA BOHEME?

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PUCCINI

WHAT ‘GH’ IS THE COMPOSER OF THE PLANETS?

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GUSTAV HOLST

Backfall, diapason, pallet, gamba, sticker all parts of what?

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Pipe Organ

Which Italian opera composer said ‘In the theater the public will stand for anything except boredom’?

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Verdi

Who wrote “The Planets” suite?

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Gustav Holst

Who, along with Beethoven and Bach, is part of the 3 Bs of music?

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Brahms (1883-1897) Brahms wrote, among others, a number of major works for orchestra, including four symphonies, two piano concertos, and the pair of orchestral overtures. Despite his reputation as a serious composer of complex musical designs, some of Brahms’s commercially successful compositions were aimed at the large contemporary market of domestic music making, and are small-scale and popular in intention

WHO COMPOSED PETER AND THE WOLF IN 1936 (BOTH NAMES)?

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SERGAI PROKOFIEV

WHAT ‘M’ IS A FAMOUS ORATORIO BY HANDEL?

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MESSIAH

Fidelio was the title of whose only Opera?

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Beethoven

What famous American composer has had two of his songs adopted as official state anthems?

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Stephen Foster. His “My Old Kentucky Home” is the state song of Kentucky, and his “Old Folks at Home” is the state song of Florida

Beethoven’s sixth symphony is known as what?

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The Pastoral

Which country did the composer Frederick Delius come from?

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England

WHICH COMPOSER’S WORKS ARE KNOWN BY K-NUMBERS?

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MOZART

FIRST PERFORMED IN 1938, AND COMMONLY CONSIDERED ONE OF THE SADDEST OF ALL CLASSICAL WORKS, WHO COMPOSED ADAGIO FOR STRINGS (IT WAS USED IN THE 1986 FILM PLATOON)?

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SAMUEL BARBER

What sticker message did Capitol Records added to a recording of Delibes’ opera Lakme in 1988 in a bid to boost sales among buyers not ordinarily interested in classical music?

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Includes the Flower Duet from the British Airways TV commercial

What was Beethoven’s first name?

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Ludwig

Which enormously influential classical composer spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Hungarian aristocratic Esterházy family?

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Joseph Haydn Isolated from other composers and trends in music until the later part of his long life, he was, as he put it, “forced to become original”. He is often called the “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet” because of his important contributions to these genres

Due to the large number of languages used in the European Union, its anthem is purely instrumental. Despite this, the German lyrics from what work of Friedrich Schiller, connected to Beethoven, are often sung when the anthem is played?

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Ode to Joy It is best known for its musical setting by Beethoven in the final movement of his Ninth Symphony

WHAT ‘WAM’ WAS THE MOST PROLIFIC OF ALL COMPOSERS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC?

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

WHAT ‘MS’ WAS NOT BEETHOVEN’S NAME FOR HIS OPUS NO. 27 NO. 2 FOR PIANO?

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MOONLIGHT SONATA

Who composed the Four Seasons?

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Vivaldi

Beethoven, Dvorak and Vaughan Williams all wrote the same number of symphonies. How many did they each write?

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Nine

In an opera when is the overture played?

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The Beginning

Who composed the Brandeberg concertos full names?

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Johan Sebastian Bach 29

WHAT ‘MS’ IS A BEETHOVEN PIANO PIECE BEST HEARD AFTER DARK?

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MOONLIGHT SONATA
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