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Boston
100
What composer spent years traveling around Europe performing for kings, queens, and aristocracy?
Mozart
100
Who wrote a famous ninth symphony that is unusual because it incorporates chorus and soloists?
Beethoven
100
What type of music is written for small groups of instrumentalists and is often performed at home?
chamber music
100
Name a musical period that we haven't studied
Medieval or Renaissance
100
Where does the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform?
Symphony Hall
200
Which composer had 20 kids
Bach
200
Who was trying to destroy Mozart in the movie, Amadeus?
Antonio Salieri
200
What type of piece for full orchestra usually has 4 movements?
Symphony
200
What major European revolution occurred in the last years of Mozart's life?
French revolution
200
Where does the Boston Pops perform on July 4th?
Hatch Shell
300
What Romantic period composer died in Paris from tuberculosis?
Chopin
300
Whose father was a sheep accountant for the Esterhazy family?
Franz Liszt
300
What is the only genre, other than opera, that was popular in all three musical periods?
concerto
300
What happened to the Mendelssohn bank?
shut down by the Nazis
300
What is the Handel and Haydn Society
an orchestra
400
Who is the only composer we've studied who had red hair?
Vivaldi
400
What composer revived the oratorio (a genre that had been dead since the Baroque period)
Mendelssohn
400
What type of piece was Handel's "Water Music"?
orchestral suite
400
Chopin's concert in Vienna was cancelled because of an uprising in what country?
Poland
400
Who is YoYo Ma?
a cellist
500
What Italian Baroque composer competed in a keyboard duel with Handel?
Scarlatti
500
What Italian composer is buried in the pantheon in Rome?
Archangelo Corelli
500
What type of piece is Schubert's "Death and the Maiden"?
string quartet
500
Which of Napoleon's brothers offered Beethoven a job?
Jerome Bonaparte
500
Who is the conductor of the Boston Pops?
Keith Lockhart
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