Tamara Dominas
Renowned music composers. How much do you really know about them? Not much? That’s exactly what I thought. Do you want to prove me wrong? I bet you’ll get not more than 10/15, but okay, let’s try.
Classical music composers. You won’t score over 9/15 in this quiz
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What composer wrote a symphony in which the musicians stop playing one by one and leave the stage until only two are left?
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Joseph Haydn
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Question of
What Soviet composer’s death preceded that of Joseph Stalin by approximately 50 minutes?
- Dmitry Shostakovich
- Aram Khachaturian
- Alfred Schnittke
- Sergey Prokofiev
- Question of
What renowned 19th-century pianist, composer, and teacher became known as the Queen of the Piano during a successful recital career lasting more than 60 years?
- Cosima Wagner
- Clara Schumann
- Anna Dvořák
- Fanny Mendelssohn
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Of which composer did Igor Stravinsky say, “[He] did not write 400 concertos; he wrote the same concerto 400 times”?
- Domenico Scarlatti
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Georg Friedrich Händel
- Johann Sebastian Bach
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Which composition by Ludwig van Beethoven inspired a novella of the same title by Leo Tolstoy, in which a jealous husband murders his wife after she and another man play the composition together?
- Sonata for Nude Violinist and Pianist
- The Moonlight Sonata
- The Kreutzer Sonata
- The Kreisler Sonata
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Which medieval composer and mystic was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012?
- Michael Praetorius
- Peter Abelard
- Bernard de Cluny
- Hildegard von Bingen
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Which renowned Russian Romantic composer was also a professor of chemistry?
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Mikhail Glinka
- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
- Aleksandr Borodin
- Question of
Which major American composer also ran a successful insurance company?
- Aaron Copland
- Charles Ives
- Samuel Barber
- Leonard Bernstein
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Which composer’s Sixth Symphony features the ringing of cowbells offstage?
- Anton Bruckner
- Johannes Brahms
- Jean Sibelius
- Gustav Mahler
- Question of
Which of these compositions is not by Czech composer Antonín Dvorák?
- Billy the Kid
- Moravian Duets
- Slavonic Dances
- New World Symphony
- Question of
Which of these compositions is not by George Frideric Handel?
- Water Music
- The Blue Danube
- Messiah
- Music for the Royal Fireworks
- Question of
Which of these composers wrote music for a keyboard that played colored light instead of sound?
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Frederic Chopin
- Thomas Tallis
- Aleksandr Scriabin
- Question of
Who wrote Rondo alla turca?
- Jacques Offenbach
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Christoph Willibald von Gluck
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Which of these was a famous madrigalist, or composer of madrigal music?
- Francesco Landini
- Frank Zappa
- Fra Filippo Lippi
- Francis Albert Sinatra
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Who composed the Messiah, first performed in 1742?
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Richard Wagner
- George Frideric Handel
- Georg Hegel
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