Quotes
"My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses."
Who is Alexander Scriabin?
E, E, E E, F, E, C, E
What is Winter Wind? (What is Chopin Op. 25 No. 11?)
What is Erlkönig?
Who is Sergei Prokofiev?
It is rumoured that this composer died after he was crushed by his bookshelf
Who is Charles-Valentin Alkan?
"Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch"
Who is Pierre Boulez?
C C E E G G E, F F D D B B G
What is the Surprise Symphony? (What is Haydn's Symphony No. 94)
Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 1001-1006
What are the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin?
Who is Domenico Scarlatti?
This composer died at age 44 after riding his bike downhill and hitting a brick wall
Who is Ernest Chausson?
"I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed"
Who is Gustav Mahler?
D, F E D, C# D E, D
What is Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Op. 71a
What is The Nutcracker Suite?
Born: February 2005, Basingstoke, England
Who is Alma Deutscher?
This composer drowned with his wife after their ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat
Who is Enrique Granados?
This composer described Stravinsky as "Bach on the wrong notes"
Who is Sergei Prokofiev?
E# F# F# E# E# F#, F# E# E# F# F# E#
What is Ligeti's Musica Ricercata? (second movement)
Johannes Brahms, Op. 77
What is the Violin Concerto in D major?
Who is Leo Ornstein?
This composer wrote music every morning until he died at age 103 on November 5, 2012
Who is Elliott Carter?
"Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music"
Who is Luciano Berio?
E D A, F, E, B, C B A G A
What is Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3?
Alexander Scriabin, Op. 72
What is Vers la flamme?
Who is Hans Rott?
This Belgian composer died of typhoid fever at age 24 after eating a contaminated bowl of sorbet
Who is Guillaume Lekeu?