Beethoven
Mozart
Bach
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninoff
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When did Beethoven become def?

Beethoven first noticed difficulties with his hearing decades earlier, sometime in 1798, when he was about 28. By the time he was 44 or 45, he was totally deaf and unable to converse.

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When did Mozart start to learn the piano?

When he was five years old! I learned it when I was four though but did not have good piano lessons until I was six. 

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Why did Bach hate the piano?

Because beck then, every note on the piano was like you were holding the pedal for it. 

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What Tchaikovsky piece has 40% of revenue for the USA ballet company?

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy!

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Where is Rachmaninoff buried?

Kensico Cemetery, NY

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Who did Beethoven study with that was Mozart's teacher also?

Hayden!

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Who hated Mozart? Some think this person killed him!

Saliari 

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Who was Bach's most successful family member with the piano? 

C.P.E Bach!

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What did Tchaikovsky's parents want him to be that he quit for music.

His parents wanted him to be a lawyer. He quit that job to study music!

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Who was Rachmaninoff influenced by?

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Franz Liszt .Alexander Scriabin. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Arnold Böcklin



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What was the last piece Beethoven wrote? 

Ode to Joy!

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Who was Mozart's first piano teacher who wrote  pieces for him to play?

His father, Leopold!
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What instruments did Bach love to play and composed Toccata and Fugue on? Double question. What instruments did Bach love to play and originally  composed Prelude in C on? Now people do not make these anymore.

First Question: Organ

Second Question: Clavichord

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When Tchaikovsky's brother visited him, what did his brother not tell Tchaikovsky? Tchaikovsky later found out this news in the local news paper.

That his sister, Clara died.

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What piece did Rachmaninoff play on his last recital a few days before his death? 

Funeral March by Chopin!

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What did Beethoven's father lie about at Beethoven's   first concert?

His age!

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How many symphonies did Mozart write?

50

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Did Bach meet Mozart or Hayden in London?

Trick Question! Mozart met Hayden in London! HA HA HA!

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Since Tchaikovsky could not concentrate to write music at home, where did he travel to?  

France and maybe Germany. No one knows for sure.

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How many pieces did Rachmaninoff write that are concerto's?

4 concerto's. 

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Who was one of Beethoven's most successful students?

Carl Czerny!

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What was the first piece of music Mozart wrote?




a Minuet and Trio in G major

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How many kids did Bach have ?

@) This stands for 20.

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What was the first piece Tchaikovsky wrote ? 


 This piece is a symphony! Composed 1866; Winter Daydreams!


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Who is Rachmaninoff's brother?

Vladimir Rachmaninoff and Arkadiy Rachmaninoff.

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