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.
Which enormously influential classical composer spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Hungarian aristocratic Esterhazy family?
What event does Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture commemorate?
What are the four operas Rhinegold, Valkyries, Siegfried and Twilight of the Gods, all written by the German composer Richard Wagner collectively called?
What are the surnames of the Three Tenors?
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?
Which British composer wrote the theme music for the film Murder on the Orient Express?
Which composer’s real first names are Hoagland Howard?
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?
Which composer wrote much of his finest music when he was deaf?
Which composer transcribed birdsong and incorporated it into much of his work?
Who joined Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti to tour, and record as The Three Tenors?
Which composer was born on exactly the same day as TV evangelist Pat Robertson?
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?
Which American composer is renowned for ‘4 minutes 33 seconds’ in which the audience is left waiting for a single note to be played?
What musical masterpiece commemorates a battle fought at a place called Borodino?
What did tenor Richard Versalle do at a Metropolitan Opera performance, after delivering the line: ” Too bad you can only live so long”?
RULE BRITANNIA’ IS THE WORK OF WHICH COMPOSER?
WHOSE ‘VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY PAGANINI’ IS A STANDARD PART OF THE PIANO REPERTOIRE?
WHO WROTE THE FIREBIRD SUITE AND THE EBONY CONCERTO FOR A SWING BAND?
What classical conductor won posthumous Grammy Awards in 1991, 1992, and 1993?
What famous character in literature was inspired by an Augustinian monk named Alonso Quizado?
What is the name for the art of clipping hedges into shapes called?
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?
What academy is sometimes dubbed “Canoe U.”?
WHAT ‘G’ WAS THE COMPOSER OF PORGY AND BESS?
WHO COMPOSED PETER AND THE WOLF?
What type of music would you associate with Maria Callas?
Which set of 30 keyboard techniques were written by Johann Sebastian Bach to reportedly cure insomnia?
In music, how many quavers equal a minim?
Who developed the 12-tone system of composition?
WHO WROTE THE SHOW COMPANY?
Which Hamburg born composer founded the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1841?
Who wrote the opera Cunning Little Vixen?
Which opera did Bizet write just before his death in 1875?
Who wrote the waltz called the Blue Danube?
What did opera great Luciano Pavarotti do for a living before he became a professional tenor?
WHO COMPOSED THE BALLET MUSIC SWAN LAKE IN 1877?
Who composed the opera Cosi Fan Tutte?
What was the nationality of composer Aaron Copland?
Franz Liszt was the farther in law of what composer?
What tenor’s passions were summarized by his wife with: “For a plate of spaghetti, he’d leave home. For another woman? Never”?
What relation was George Gershwin to Ira?
WHAT ‘RC’ BY WAGNER IS PERFORMED EVERY YEAR AT BAYREUTH?
Which composer’s life story was chronicled on the big screen in A Song to Remember?
Beethoven gave up what while writing his ninth symphony?
What are the surnames of the Three Tenors?
What instrument did “King of Jazz” orchestra leader Paul Whiteman play when he launched his musical career with the Denver Symphony?
Who composed the coronation anthem first played for England’s King George II in 1727 and used at British coronations ever since?
WHAT ‘V’ WAS A 19TH-CENTURY ITALIAN OPERA COMPOSER?
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