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Music Maestro Please Trivia Quiz

Welcome to a programme with, I hope, something for everyone who shares my passion for music. Warning: In-depth knowledge required.

A multiple-choice quiz by fiachra. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
fiachra

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
181,130

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
757

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Question 1 of 10

1. My first offering comes from Spain and is the wonderfully dramatic and mesmerising 'Ritual Fire Dance'. Can you remember the composer? Hint

Ravel

Albeniz

de Falla

Debussy

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Question 2 of 10

2. If your taste in music lies in a great chorus, then can you recall how George II reacted to Handel's 'Hallelujah Chorus'? Hint

Yawned

Stood

Left

Talked

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which Beethoven symphony is called 'Pastoral'? Hint

Eighth

Fourth

Sixth

First

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who composed the ballet 'Coppelia' in 1870? Hint

Tchaikovsky

Hoffman

Debussy

Delibes

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which Spanish city is immortalised in Augustin Lara's song? Hint

Bilbao

Madrid

Granada

Barcelona

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Question 6 of 10

6. What is the setting for Saint-Saen's 'Danse Macabre'? Hint

Ballroom

Graveyard

Laboratory

Studio

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Question 7 of 10

7. In a more relaxed mood, complete the title of Edward MacDowell's romantic piano composition 'To a Wild_______? Hint

Primrose

Harebell

Bluebell

Rose

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Question 8 of 10

8. The incidental music to Mikhail Lermontov's melodrama 'Masquerade' was written in 1939 by which of these composers? Hint

Dvorak

Liadov

Khachaturian

De Severac

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'In the Hall of the Mountain King'is a splendid way to introduce kids to classical music. Who composed it? Hint

Elgar

Grieg

Chabrier

Dvorak

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Question 10 of 10

10. My final choice asks who composed 'Saint Francis Preaching to the Birds? Hint

Chopin

Brahms

Bach

Liszt

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. My first offering comes from Spain and is the wonderfully dramatic and mesmerising 'Ritual Fire Dance'. Can you remember the composer?

Answer: de Falla

This piece, composed in 1919, is part of the score for the ballet 'Love the Magician'. A young gypsy girl is tormented by the jealous spirit of her dead lover. To end her torment the spirit must be lured into the flames.

2. If your taste in music lies in a great chorus, then can you recall how George II reacted to Handel's 'Hallelujah Chorus'?

Answer: Stood

The Messiah was first performed in Dublin in 1741. Then in 1743, at Covent Garden in London, the King stood. The practice has continued since. "I did see the great God before me", Handel said of this composition.

3. Which Beethoven symphony is called 'Pastoral'?

Answer: Sixth

It is also known as 'Memories of Country Life'. Each movement is descriptively named e.g. 'The Scene by a Brook'. It was composed in 1808.

4. Who composed the ballet 'Coppelia' in 1870?

Answer: Delibes

This ballet was once called 'The Girl with Enamel Eyes'. It tells the story of Franz, who falls in love with a very life-like doll invented by Doctor Coppelius, an alchemist and a magician.

5. Which Spanish city is immortalised in Augustin Lara's song?

Answer: Granada

Lara was Mexican and the song is filled with Latin colour and rhythm.

6. What is the setting for Saint-Saen's 'Danse Macabre'?

Answer: Graveyard

This was included in the 'Carnival of the Animals' (1886), although it had been composed as a tone poem much earlier. It is the dance of the skeletons. Frenetic is the best word to describe it.

7. In a more relaxed mood, complete the title of Edward MacDowell's romantic piano composition 'To a Wild_______?

Answer: Rose

This delightfully soothing piece comes from 'Woodland Sketches'(1896). MacDowell was an American composer, who established the first multidisciplinary retreat in America at 'The Colony'.

8. The incidental music to Mikhail Lermontov's melodrama 'Masquerade' was written in 1939 by which of these composers?

Answer: Khachaturian

There are five pieces in the 'Masquerade Suite'; a waltz, a nocturne for violin, a mazurka, a romance and finally a galop.

9. 'In the Hall of the Mountain King'is a splendid way to introduce kids to classical music. Who composed it?

Answer: Grieg

This fabulously dramatic piece describes how the Trolls get rid of their King. The opening movement describes them sneaking on tiptoes through huge caves until they reach his chamber. Then the music reaches a frenzy as execution is done.

10. My final choice asks who composed 'Saint Francis Preaching to the Birds?

Answer: Liszt

Liszt was both a composer and virtuoso pianist. In one movement in this most eloquent composition the flutter of wings has been captured according to Bryce Morrison. Quoting Yeats' he describes listening to it as 'an evening full of the linnet's wings'.

Source: Author fiachra

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