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?
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 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?
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”?
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.”?
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?
WHO COMPOSED LA BOHEME?
WHAT ‘GH’ IS THE COMPOSER OF THE PLANETS?
Backfall, diapason, pallet, gamba, sticker all parts of what?
Which Italian opera composer said ‘In the theater the public will stand for anything except boredom’?
Who wrote “The Planets” suite?
Who, along with Beethoven and Bach, is part of the 3 Bs of music?
WHO COMPOSED PETER AND THE WOLF IN 1936 (BOTH NAMES)?
WHAT ‘M’ IS A FAMOUS ORATORIO BY HANDEL?
Fidelio was the title of whose only Opera?
What famous American composer has had two of his songs adopted as official state anthems?
Beethoven’s sixth symphony is known as what?
Which country did the composer Frederick Delius come from?
WHICH COMPOSER’S WORKS ARE KNOWN BY K-NUMBERS?
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)?
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?
What was Beethoven’s first name?
Which enormously influential classical composer spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Hungarian aristocratic Esterházy family?
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?
WHAT ‘WAM’ WAS THE MOST PROLIFIC OF ALL COMPOSERS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC?
WHAT ‘MS’ WAS NOT BEETHOVEN’S NAME FOR HIS OPUS NO. 27 NO. 2 FOR PIANO?
Who composed the Four Seasons?
Beethoven, Dvorak and Vaughan Williams all wrote the same number of symphonies. How many did they each write?
In an opera when is the overture played?
Who composed the Brandeberg concertos full names?
WHAT ‘MS’ IS A BEETHOVEN PIANO PIECE BEST HEARD AFTER DARK?
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