Classical Composers

Question 1

Brahms died ... year(s) after Clara Schumann

Accepted Answer

1

Question 2

Stravinsky's main instrument was the ...

Accepted Answer

piano

Question 3

Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovsky was the first russian composer who impacted the western european music landscape

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Mozart composed his first song at the age of ...

Accepted Answer

5

Question 5

Beethoven was born on December 17, 1770

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

He was a ... composer

Accepted Answer

romantic

Question 7

George Friedrich Händel was born in the same year as ...

Accepted Answer

Bach

Question 8

He composed ...

Accepted Answer

The Love of Three Oranges, Peter and the Wolf, Romeo & Juliet, Violin concertos

Question 9

He had an affaire with George Sand and died from tuberculosis.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

He spent most of his life in

Accepted Answer

London

Question 11

Who was Stravinsky's first music teacher?

Accepted Answer

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Question 12

He composed ...

Accepted Answer

Piano music, Sacred Music, Operas, Chamber music

Question 13

Although very religious, he married his first cousin and had 7 children

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

He was born in Brandenburg, Germany and he composed ...

Accepted Answer

Israel in Egypt, Acisand Galatea, Messiah

Question 15

He was brilliant, arrogant, and nobody liked him.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a romantic austrian composer

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Robert Schumann was a famous 19th century austrian pianist

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

What did Stravinsky study before his composition studies?

Accepted Answer

Law, Philosophy

Question 19

He was born in a very poor family

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Beethoven came from a family of musicians

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

The couple and Brahms formed a "peculiar tringle"

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

He composed ...

Accepted Answer

4 Symphonies, a German Requiem, Violin Concerto

Question 23

His love for the opera was inspired by ...

Accepted Answer

his sisters which were opera singers

Question 24

He composed...

Accepted Answer

Symphony No. 40, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Question 25

George Bizet's most known opera is ...

Accepted Answer

Carmen

Question 26

On 18 May 1804, he dedicated his third symphony "Eroica' to Napoleon

Accepted Answer

False

Question 27

Stravinsky is a ...

Accepted Answer

modern composer

Question 28

Stravinsky was an influential composers of the impressionist movement

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

Sergei Prokovief was born in today's ...

Accepted Answer

Ukraine

Question 30

Richard Wagner didn't know that was adopted ...

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

He composed ...

Accepted Answer

oratorios, concertos, operas, chamber music

Question 32

He suffered from ...

Accepted Answer

typhoid fever, mercury positioning, syphilis

Question 33

He won chess games against the world champion Garry Kasparov

Accepted Answer

False

Question 34

Among his achievements were ...

Accepted Answer

The Midsummer Night's Dream, The Violin Concerto in E Minor, The Wedding March, The foundation of the Leipzig Conservatory of Music

Question 35

He studied with ...

Accepted Answer

Salieri

Question 36

He suffered from ...

Accepted Answer

colitis and rheumatism, rheumatic fever and typhus, rheumatism and alcoholism, deafness and typhus

Question 37

Stravinsky was orthodox Jewish

Accepted Answer

False

Question 38

He was a ... composer.

Accepted Answer

classical

Question 39

His trademark was extreme chromatism and quick shifting of tonal centers

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

His main instrument was ...

Accepted Answer

piano

Question 41

He was temperamental and his nickname was ...

Accepted Answer

The Great Bear

Question 42

Which are Stravinsky's compositions?

Accepted Answer

The Rite of Spring, FeuD’artifice, Nightingale, Les Noces

Question 43

Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685, the same year as ...

Accepted Answer

Haendel

Question 44

He studied with ...

Accepted Answer

Haydn

Question 45

Frederic Chopin was a French piano prodigy child

Accepted Answer

False

Question 46

His work includes ...

Accepted Answer

Romeo and Juliet, The nutcracker

Question 47

He was addicted to ...

Accepted Answer

coffee

Question 48

Before his musical carrier he studied ...

Accepted Answer

law

Question 49

He studied with ...

Accepted Answer

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Joseph Haydn, Antonio Salieri

Question 50

In his early years (6) learned...

Accepted Answer

Writing, Adding, French, Latin

Question 51

Franz Peter Schubert was a German composer and a specialist of vocal works

Accepted Answer

False

Question 52

He was a bad music performer

Accepted Answer

True

Question 53

Brahms had a relationship with Clara Schumann with whom he had ... children

Accepted Answer

none

Question 54

As a child he composed ... symphonies

Accepted Answer

11

Question 55

His fluctuating, progressive hearing loss started at the age of ... and was complete at the age of ...

Accepted Answer

26 - 45

Question 56

He moved to Paris ...

Accepted Answer

to avoid his creditors

Question 57

His most famous composition(s) include ...

Accepted Answer

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Brandenburg Concertos, St Matthew Passion, Mass in B Minor

Question 58

He used to play his erar piano in the dark

Accepted Answer

False

Question 59

He married his piano student that was almost 10 years younger

Accepted Answer

True

Question 60

He got married once and had no kids

Accepted Answer

True

Question 61

He married up and had 5 children

Accepted Answer

True

Question 62

How many operas did he compose?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 63

He is known for his operas

Accepted Answer

True

Question 64

He was sent to jail for abandoning his patron

Accepted Answer

true

Classical Composers

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Classical Composers

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