A composer who still composed music after going deaf.
Who is Beethoven?
100
Where Tchaikovsky was born.
What is Russia?
100
The instrument favored by both Liszt and Chopin.
What is piano?
100
Beethoven's Midnight Sonata is played on this instrument.
What is a piano?
100
A composer who bridged the classical and romantic eras.
Who is Beethoven, or Schubert?
200
Schubert composed this Art Song to this poem, about a boy being stalked by death as he rides home at night with his father.
What is the ErlKing?
200
Beethoven was born in this country.
What is Germany?
200
The musical instrument that is from the Baroque period, played like a piano, but with strings that are plucked instead of struck.
What is the harpsichord?
200
A classical form of dance for which Tchaikovsky is famous.
What is ballet?
200
Piano strings were made of this in the Romantic Era.
What is iron?
300
He is mainly known for his ballets.
Who is Tschaikovsky?
300
Chopin's heart was buried in a pillar in this, his beloved home country.
What is Poland?
300
A high woodwind instrument related to the flute.
What is piccolo?
300
In the Erlking, the four characters that the one singer must portray.
Who are the Erlking, boy, father and narrator.
300
A composer and performer that was asked by fans for locks of his hair so many times that he bought a dog and started sending his fans bits of the dog's fur.
Who is Franz Liszt?
400
A composer of mainly piano music that had huge hands and wrote very difficult music, including "La Campanella".
Who is Franz Liszt?
400
Liszt wrote two rhapsodies for his homeland that have been featured in both Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry cartoons What country is his homeland?
What is Hungary?
400
The instruments used in Danse Macabre to imitate the sound of bones.
What is the xylophone?
400
A piece of music that is composed to tell a story or express a poem.
What is Program Music, or Art Song?
400
A dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.
What is an opera?
500
He spent time with a girl named George.
Who is Chopin?
500
Danse Macabre is an Art Song written by a composer from this country.
What is France (Saint-Saens)?
500
The keyboard instrument used by Tschaikovsky in the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
What is the celesta/celeste?
500
A short piece intended to be played before the start of an event. Chopin wrote many, including one about Raindrops.
What is a Prelude?
500
Because of it's famous short, short, short, long pattern, this Symphony by this composer was used in World War II as a form of morse code to indicate "V" for Victory.