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General arts and history quiz for music students.
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1
Who wrote Also sprach Zarathustra?
Joahnn Wolfgang von Goethe
Friedrich Nietzsche
Karl Marx
Stanley Kubrick
2
Who were known as
The Five
, also known as
The Mighty Handful?
Copland, Bernstein, Barber, Gershwin, Corigliano
Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud, Poulenc, Honegger
Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussourgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
Bach, Beethoven, Bruch, Bruckner, Brahms
3
Which philosopher is famous for "Cogito ergo sum" - or "I think, therefore I am"?
Plato
Thomas Aquinas
René Descartes
Immanuel Kant
4
Who wrote Don Quijote?
Pierre de Vries
Gabriel Garcia
Don Corleone
Miguel de Cervantes
5
From which play by Shakespeare is the famous quote "To be or not to be"?
Macbeth
Hamlet
Othello
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6
When did Schönberg publish his "Dodecaphony"?
1943
1923
1933
1913
7
What style in architecture and design is a parallell to Gustav Mahler's style of music?
art deco
art noveau
jugend
dadaism
8
Who composed the Moonlight sonata?
Ludwig van Beetoven
Ludwig von Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beithoven
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Which famous classical philosopher did also develop the first musical intonation system?
Aristotle
Plato
Pythagoras
Socrates
10
And who composed this?
John Adams
Louis Andriessen
Arvo Pärt
Steve Reich
11
Who composed the Brandenburg concertos?
G. F. Händel
J. S. Bach
Henry Purcell
Antonio Vivaldi
12
What year was the French revolution?
1789
1899
1799
1879
13
Which is the correct chronological order?
Renaissance, Classicism, Baroque, Romantic
Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Classicism
Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, Romantic
Baroque, Rennaissance, Classisim, Romantic
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Who wrote the famous composition 4'33?
Karlheinz Stockhausen
John Cage
Philip Glass
Aaron Copland
15
Who composed this?
Luciano Berio
Alban Berg
Krzysztof Penderecki
Arne Nordheim
16
Which of these is considered to be one of the finest renaissance composers?
Heinrich Schütz
Dieterich Buxtehude
Alessandro Scarlatti
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
17
Who painted this picture?
Gustav Klimt
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Jackson Pollock
18
What year was Stravinsky's "Rite of spring" first performed?
1902
1912
1913
1923
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What style or period is this painting an example of?
Qubism
Surrealism
Dadaism
Abstract
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What year did Christopher Columbus discover America?
1492
1765
1495
1776