Bach walked this far to see J.A.Reincken play
30 miles
When Beethoven was 26 what started to happen to him?
He started to go deaf
Mozart was a child prodigy on which instrument?
The keyboard (piano)
What did Handel's father want him to be?
A Lawyer
What did Wagner develop in his music?
The motif
Bach found these in the head of a fish on his way home
two coins
What did Beethoven use to try to hear the piano?
A stick
How many voices were in the piece Mozart heard at the Sistine Chapel?
Nine
Who smuggled a harpsichord into Handel's room?
His mother
Wagner wrote a very long opera, what was it called?
The Ring
Bach played this instrument really well
organ or violin
Beethoven did this to try to hear his piano
sawed off the legs
The piece Mozart heard and wrote down was so sacred, what did the pope say that no one could do with it?
Write it down
What are the words of Handel's famous song?
Hallelujah
How long was the opera, the Ring?
15 Hours
Bach lived in what time period of classical music
Baroque
Beethoven lived in this time period of Classical music
Classical or Romantic
Mozart lived in this period of classical music
Classical
Handel lived in this period of classical music
Baroque
Wagner was very famous in his lifetime, while he was living. True or False?
True
How many children did Bach have?
20
Beethoven wrote this number of Symphonies
Nine
Mozart wrote variations on this children's song
Twinkle, Twinkle little star
Name a famous music composer who also born the same year as Handel, 1685?
Bach
Wagner lived during this period of classical music
Romantic