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1. Which of Wagner's works is the famous 'Here Comes The Bride' (Wedding March) taken from?
2. Apart from Wagner's 'Here Comes The Bride' there are of course many other 'suitable' 'wedding marches' as well. One of those rivalling compositions was by another German composer who hardly could have been a friend of Wagner's. Who is that German composer?
3. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi,the maker of one of the most popular baroque musicworks, 'The Four Seasons' was technically speaking a priest. What was his nickname?
4. A recent study published in a serious 'Psychiatric Bulletin' claims that one of the most famous compositions in twentieth century European music may have been the work of a composer whose mind was debilitated by Alzheimer's Disease. This 'diagnosis' has been based on the 18 times that the central melody is repeated without any change. In which 'classic' masterpiece does this oddity occur?
5. Popular masterpieces need not be lengthy works. As what did Ludwig van Beethoven 'classify' his famous mini-composition 'Fuer Elise'?
6. Boccherini's 'Minuet' is definitely one of the most popular works in eighteenth century music. What was a 'minuet' originally?
7. Few composers are as exclusively known for just ONE work as Pachelbel for his 'Canon'. What country was he born in ?
8. Which Swedish film used Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto as main musical theme?
9. Which of these composers was a lifelong bachelor?
10. Where was Haendel's 'Messiah' performed for the very first time?
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