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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

WHAT ‘G’ WAS THE COMPOSER OF PORGY AND BESS?

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GERSHWIN

WHO COMPOSED PETER AND THE WOLF?

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SERGEY PROKOFIEV (1936)

What type of music would you associate with Maria Callas?

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Opera

Which set of 30 keyboard techniques were written by Johann Sebastian Bach to reportedly cure insomnia?

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The Goldberg Variations published in 1741 It was once seen as a boring technical exercise but is today considered one of the most important examples of its form. Today, the emotional content and range of the work is increasingly realised, and it has become a favorite work of many classical music listeners. The Variations are widely performed and recorded, and have been the subject of many articles, books and analytical studies

In music, how many quavers equal a minim?

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4

Who developed the 12-tone system of composition?

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Arnold Schoenberg

WHO WROTE THE SHOW COMPANY?

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STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Which Hamburg born composer founded the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1841?

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FELIX Mendelssohn

Who wrote the opera Cunning Little Vixen?

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Janacek

Which opera did Bizet write just before his death in 1875?

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Carmen

Who wrote the waltz called the Blue Danube?

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Johann Strouss

What did opera great Luciano Pavarotti do for a living before he became a professional tenor?

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He was a school teacher and later an insurance salesman

WHO COMPOSED THE BALLET MUSIC SWAN LAKE IN 1877?

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TCHAIKOVSKY

Who composed the opera Cosi Fan Tutte?

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Wolfgang AMADEUS Mozart

What was the nationality of composer Aaron Copland?

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American

Franz Liszt was the farther in law of what composer?

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Richard Wagner

What tenor’s passions were summarized by his wife with: “For a plate of spaghetti, he’d leave home. For another woman? Never”?

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Luciano Pavarotti

What relation was George Gershwin to Ira?

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Brother

WHAT ‘RC’ BY WAGNER IS PERFORMED EVERY YEAR AT BAYREUTH?

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RING CYCLE

Which composer’s life story was chronicled on the big screen in A Song to Remember?

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Frederic Chopin

Beethoven gave up what while writing his ninth symphony?

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Bathing

What are the surnames of the Three Tenors?

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Pavarotti, Carraras, Domingo

What instrument did “King of Jazz” orchestra leader Paul Whiteman play when he launched his musical career with the Denver Symphony?

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The viola

Who composed the coronation anthem first played for England’s King George II in 1727 and used at British coronations ever since?

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George Frederic Handel

WHAT ‘V’ WAS A 19TH-CENTURY ITALIAN OPERA COMPOSER?

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VERDI
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