Classical Composers

All 13 questions

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1. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 famously sets Schiller's 'Ode to Joy' for chorus and soloists. In which movement do the voices finally enter?

   • The third
   • The second
   • The fourth
   • The first

2. Franz Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony (No. 8 in B minor) breaks off after how many completed movements?

   • Four
   • Two
   • Three
   • One

3. Antonio Vivaldi, composer of 'The Four Seasons', was also an ordained Catholic priest known by what nickname?

   • The Venetian Monk
   • The Baroque Abbot
   • The Red Priest
   • The Crimson Cardinal

4. Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel were born in the same country in the same year, 1685.

   • True
   • False

5. Mozart's German-language Singspiel that premiered in Vienna on 30 September 1791, featuring the comic bird-catcher Papageno, is best known by which title?

   • The Marriage of Figaro
   • Cosi fan tutte
   • The Magic Flute
   • Don Giovanni

6. Mozart's final composition, a Mass for the dead left unfinished at his death in 1791 and completed by his pupil Sussmayr, is titled the ___.

7. Tchaikovsky conducted the first performance of his Sixth Symphony, the 'Pathetique', only nine days before his death in 1893.

   • True
   • False

8. The stylistic sequence of Western classical music from roughly 1600 to 1900 runs in which correct chronological order?

   • Classical, Baroque, Romantic
   • Baroque, Classical, Romantic
   • Baroque, Romantic, Classical
   • Romantic, Classical, Baroque

9. Which nickname belongs to Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, originally intended as a tribute to Napoleon?

   • Pastoral
   • Jupiter
   • Eroica
   • Choral

10. Beethoven had already lost all of his hearing before he composed his very first symphony.

    • True
    • False

11. Bach spent the final and most productive stretch of his career, from 1723 until his death in 1750, working in which German city?

    • Leipzig
    • Vienna
    • Salzburg
    • Hamburg

12. Mozart's grand final symphony, No. 41 in C major, carries the traditional nickname the '___' Symphony.

13. Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' belongs to which instrumental genre, pairing a solo instrument against a small orchestra?

    • Solo piano sonata
    • String quartet
    • Violin concerto
    • Symphony