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A cool classical music quiz just to welcome Summer of 2005 ! Check your knowledge of classical music !
Answer each of the following 20 (not difficult) questions and then go HERE and send your answers through a post (at artissimo.gr forum area - no need to login as a user before) so that I shall send you your own performance data in a replying post as soon as possible.
Enjoy the incoming of the summer with an enjoying and educational game NOW ! GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN !  1. Who is the king of waltz ?
a. Bela Bartok.
b. Johann Strauss.
c. Claude Debussy.
d. Hector Berlioz. 2. How many instruments of the string family are playing in a "classical" piano trio ?
a. One.
b. Two.
c. Three.
d. Four. 3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in :
a. 1731.
b. 1751.
c. 1771.
d. 1791. 4. How many (complete) symphonies did Beethoven write ?
a. 9.
b. 10.
c. 11.
d. 12. 5. The famous work "The Nutcracker" was written by :
a. Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
b. Georges Bizet.
c. Franz Joseph Haydn.
d. Johann Sebastian Bach.  6. How many keys has the piano ?
a. 75.
b. 82.
c. 88.
d. 92. 7. Which composer of those is an impressionist ?
a. Frederic Chopin.
b. Franz Liszt.
c. Sergey Prokofiev.
d. Maurice Ravel. 8. Which was the nationality of Franz Liszt ?
a. Austrian.
b. German.
c. Czech.
d. Hungarian. 9. Which is the difference between French Horn and English Horn ?
a. They are two completely different instruments.
b. They are basically the same instrument played by players of different nationalities.
c. They are basically the same instrument but with a different embouchure.
d. They have the same shape but different sizes : French Horn is bigger than English Horn.  10. Which of the following composers were living at the same time ?
a. Bedrich Smetana and Darius Milhaud.
b. Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Alban Berg.
c. Muzio Clementi and Georges Bizet.
d. Arcangelo Corelli and Franz Joseph Haydn. 11. How many strings has the contrabass ?
a. always 4 with no exceptions.
b. usually 4, but sometimes 5 for an extra lower region.
c. always 6 with no exceptions.
d. usually 6, but sometimes 7 for an extra lower region. 12. Who has written a symphony under the name "The Clock" ?
a. Ludwig van Beethoven.
b. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
c. Franz Joseph Haydn.
d. Johann Sebastian Bach. 13. Who has written the work "Scaramouche" for two pianos ?
a. Francis Poulenc.
b. Darius Milhaud.
c. Maurice Ravel.
d. Claude Debussy.  14. Who has written the opera "Wozzeck" ?
a. Alban Berg.
b. Anton Webern.
c. Arnold Schoenberg.
d. Igor Stravinsky. 15. Who had a wife with great talent in music composition ?
a. Robert Schumann.
b. Hector Berlioz.
c. Ludwig van Beethoven.
d. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 16. Which of the following sentences is false ?
a. Clarinet in B flat is a wind instrument.
b. Clarinet in B flat is a transposing instrument.
c. Clarinet in B flat is an orchestral instrument.
d. Clarinet in B flat is a double reed instrument. 17. Dimitri Mitropoulos was a famous :
a. cello virtuoso.
b. opera singer.
c. orchestra conductor.
d. composer of the music theater.  18. The music of Iannis Xenakis can be better described as :
a. Music based on Architecture.
b. Music based on classical era principles.
c. Music based on twelve-tone series.
d. Music based on abstract Mathematics. 19. Which of the following sentences concerning Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life is true :
a. His Requiem had been completed by one of his students.
b. It has been proved that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was poisoned by Salieri.
c. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had not written any operas.
d. As a young boy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a mediocrity in music. 20. Which of the following sentences concerning Ludwig van Beethoven's life is true :
a. He had composed one and only opera.
b. Ludwig van Beethoven was deaf from birth.
c. Ludwig van Beethoven was married to a princess.
d. Ludwig van Beethoven had composed one and only symphony. Check your knowledge of classical music !
Answer each of the previous 20 (not difficult) questions and then go HERE and send your answers through a post (at artissimo.gr forum area - no need to login as a user before) so that I shall send you your own performance data in a replying post as soon as possible.
Enjoy the incoming of the summer with an enjoying and educational game NOW !
GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN !
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