Guess the Piece by One Note
Exhibit A
Beethoven 5
Exhibit A
Ligeti, Piano Concerto
Prokofiev dies.
What is 1953?
This emigré composer often played tennis with George Gershwin at Gershwin's house in Beverly Hills.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
He invented Calculus.
Who was Newton? (Would also accept Leibniz)
Exhibit B
Chopin Ballade No. 4, Op. 52
Exhibit B
Grieg, Holberg Suite, II. Sarabande
The first-ever premiere of a Schubert symphony.
What is 1828? (It was Symphony No. 6, four weeks after Schubert died)
The expression mark "beklemmt" is famously used in a violin line of this piece.
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 130, V. Cavatina
Probably the most famous Polish person (along with Chopin), the winner of two Nobel Prizes in two different fields.
Who is Marie Sklodowska-Curie?
Exhibit C
Mahler Symphony No. 2
Exhibit C
Sibelius, Symphony No. 4, IV.
Nadia Boulanger, Serge Koussevitzky, and the Boston Symphony premiere Copland's Organ Symphony.
What is 1924?
This French composer is actually Italian.
Who was Giovanni Battista Lulli (Jean-Baptiste Lully)?
Crossing the border between Afghanistan and this country constitutes the largest time zone difference between international land borders.
What is China?
Exhibit D
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
Exhibit D
Antheil, Ballet Mecanique, Original Version
Gesualdo kills his wife and her lover (guess within 10 years).
What is 1590? (1580-1600 are acceptable.)
Who was Myaskovsky?
The mainly non-European Umayyad Caliphate (Empire) counted only two modern-day European nations among its borders between 651 and 750: this is one of them.
What is Spain or what is Portugal?
Exhibit E
Liszt Sonata in B Minor
Exhibit E
Copland, Connotations for Orchestra
Hans von Bülow dies.
What is 1894?
This multi-talented polymath, who is almost never thought of as a musician, wrote a piece for string quartet featuring only scordatura open strings.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This cooking method has the same etymological root as the word Buccaneer.
What is barbeque?