Early Life
The month Bach was born.
When is March?
His father was a mine inspector and metal works manager.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
By age 5, this Classical composer began composing.
Who is Mozart?
He composed a ballet inspired by Shakespeare's story.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This Baroque composer composed church music for Duke Wilhelm.
Who is Bach?
He was born in Brooklyn, New York to Russian Jewish immigrants.
Who is Gershwin?
Chess remained a lifelong passion for this Russian composer.
Who is Prokofiev?
Chopin started playing the piano at this age.
When is 4?
This composer wrote Mazurka in A minor Op. 7, No. 2.
Who is Chopin?
This composer never composed an opera because he thought they did not have a serious purpose.
Who is Bach?
The Norwegian city Grieg was born in.
Where is Bergen?
This Norwegian composer traveled all of Europe, except Ireland.
Who is Grieg?
When he turned eight, his father decided to make money from his son's talent.
Who is Beethoven?
His most famous piano piece is Zadok the Priest.
Who is Handel?
This Romantic composer did not compose any symphonies during his career.
Who is Chopin?
Name the two composers who were Beethoven's musical influences.
Who are Haydn and Mozart?
This composer had several pet canaries.
Who is Mozart?
Britten played these two instruments.
What are the piano and viola?
Name two of Tchaikovsky's ballets that start with the letter, "S."
What are Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty?
Handel wrote this oratorio in 24 days.
What is The Messiah?
This French, Impressionistic composer was one of Gershwin's musical influences.
Who is Debussy?
This English composer's face was on a coin.
Who is Britten?
He dropped out of high school at age 15 to pursue a music career.
Who is Gershwin?
It is the first of four movements of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 23, written in 1875. This movement depicts the sun rising in the Moroccan desert.
What is "Morning Mood?"
This Russian composer composed 14 operas.
Who is Prokofiev?