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 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?
WHO WROTE THE SYMPHONY OF A THOUSAND?
Which character in The Mikado was Lord High Everything Else?
What is the title of Beethoven’s only opera?
Which Puccini opera was first performed in 1926?
Where was Handel’s Messiah first performed?
WHICH MODERN COMPOSER’S WORKS INCLUDE THE OPERAS EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH AND AKHNATEN?
WHAT ‘T’ WAS A MELODIOUS RUSSIAN COMPOSER?
What song was the band playing while the Titanic sank?
What was used to conduct the orchestra before the baton was introduced in the early 19th century?
What was the nationality of the composer Franz Schubert?
What classical conductor won posthumous Grammy Awards in 1991,1992, and 1993?
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?
GH – Who composed the Planets Suite?
What was Louis Armstrong’s nickname?
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