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1. Which composer used to say, 'When I came hither first, I found, among the English, many good players and no {composers;} but now, they are all composers and no players.'?
2. Which composer would not sit still for his barber, constantly rushing to the clavier every time he had an idea, forcing the barber to run after him, hair-ribbon in hand?
3. Which composer said to Leopold Mozart, in 1785, 'I must tell you before God, and as an honest man, that your son is the greatest composer I have ever heard of.'?
4. Which composer once told Austrian pianist and composer, Karl Czerny, that as a boy he had been neglected and that his education had been very bad, but added 'I had talent for music.'?
5. After receiving a request from the composer to play at his funeral, his friends suggested the composer's own sonatas. The composer replied, 'Oh, no, not mine, play really good music, Mozart, for instance.' Who was the composer?
6. Which composer was so fond of full harmony that he is said to have played organ pedals using a stick in his mouth, as neither hands nor feet could reach?
7. Which composer when asked 'Have you written the history of your life?', replied, 'It is enough to have lived such a life as mine.'?
8. Which composer played almost every kind of instrument, and attempted to compose an opera at the age of twelve, yet briefly renounced his musical pursuits at the age of twenty and went to study law at Leipzig?
9. Which composer said 'Don't be afraid if your music looks like something, just beware if it doesn't look like anything.'?
10. One day, the composer Rossini was joking with a friend, and he opened the piano and sat heavily on the keys. Whose music was he imitating?
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