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This composer was so meticulous, he would count out exactly 60 coffee beans each time he had a cup.
nope
not this one either
Ludwig Van Beethoven
go back
2
This composer was given the nickname "little mushroom" by their friends due to their height
Joseph Haydn
Dmitri Shostakovich
Prince
Franz Schubert
3
Despite his huge success as a composer, this composer lived with his mom well into his 40's.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Sergei Prokofiev
Alexander Glazunov
Dmitri Shostakovich
4
This musician kept a frog figurine in his pocket at all times and would rub it before concerts for good luck.
Edvard Grieg
Mr. Mailman
Albert Einstein
Froggy McFroggerton
5
These two composers enjoyed imitating ballet dancers when they were at the Moscow Conservatoire together.
No one in Russia would ever make fun of ballet
Two old white dudes with beards
Tchaikovsky and Saint Saens
Saint Saens and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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These two composers were both blinded by the same ocular surgeon, John Taylor
Handel and Mozart
No such thing as ocular surgery in the 1700's
Bach and Handel
Schubert and Schumann
7
This composer composed the main theme to his cello concerto on a napkin after waking up from dental surgery.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Johannes Brahms
Justin Beiber
Edward Elgar
8
This German composer ruined their own performing career by using a homemade finger stretching device
Rachmaninoff
Nope
Schumann
Nope
9
This composer suffered from triskiadekaphobia - the fear of the number 13. They also died on July 13th, 1951
Arnold Schoenberg
Bela Bartok
Edvard Grieg
Charles Ives
10
This German composer visited his favourite pub, "The Red Hedgehog Tavern" in Vienna nearly every day.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
Camille Saint-Saëns
Johannes Brahms
11
This composer wrote the overture for the opera Don Giovanni on the morning of it's premier while hungover.
Free points here
Amadeus Mozart
Guiseppi Verdi
George Handel
12
As a child, this classical composer cut off the pigtails of a fellow choir member as a practical joke.
Amadeus Mozart
Edvard Grieg
Joseph Haydn
Clara Schumann
13
This French composer was a member of the Astronomical Society of France and had his very own telescope.
Igor Stravinsky
Amadeus Mozart
Camille Saint-Saëns
Franz Liszt
14
This composer loved looking at trains and would go almost every day to a station in Prague to watch them.
Thomas the Tank Engine
Johannes Brahms
John Coltrane
Anton Dvorak