Miscellaneous
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Jazz
100
One of the most famous of all violin virtuosi was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1782. His playing was so far superior to that of his contemporaries that rumours abounded he had sold his soul to the Devil - rumours he did nothing to discourage. Who was he?
Who is Niccolo Paganini?
100
What is another name for Beethoven's 3rd Symphony?
What is Eroica
100
The classic "Don Giovanni" was composed by which composer?
Who is Mozart?
100
What is the instrument called?
What is viola?
100
What jazz soloist was known as Yardbird?
Who is Charlie Parker?
200
Rachmaninoff's works are considered to be a part of which period of classical music?
What is Romanticism?
200
What is the name of Chopin's famous work for solo piano in C sharp minor?
What is Fantaisie Impromptu?
200
Which composer’s sixth and final symphony is also known as the “Pathétique Symphony”?
Who is Tchaikovsky?
200
Which instrument plays the opening of The Rite of Spring?
What is bassoon?
200
Which pianist was dismissed by jazz critic Philip Larkin as "the elephant on the keyboard"?
Who is Thelonious Monk?
300
Which English composer’s compositions include the “Enigma Variations” and the “Pomp and Circumstances Marches”?
Who is Elgar?
300
This famous ballad by Schubert was written as a setting for a poem by Goethe. What is the name of this piece?
What is Erlkonig?
300
These days he is remembered almost entirely as a composer, but for much of his lifetime, this Russian-born musician was at least as well known as a virtuoso pianist. He often appeared as a soloist in his own five compositions for piano and orchestra, consisting of four concertos and a "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini". What is his name?
Who is Rachmaninoff?
300
Which instrument plays the famous cadenza in the first movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony?
What is oboe?
300
What form of jazz did Clarinetist Benny Goodman help popularize in the 1930s?
What is swing?
400
Which is Shostakovich's most famous symphony?
What is Symphony No. 5
400
The astronaut Neil Armstrong took a tape recording of which piece of music by Antonín Dvořák with him on the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission?
What is The New World Symphony?
400
Who composed the operas “Madame Butterfly” and “Tosca”?
Who is Puccini?
400
What is the number of keys (both black and white) on a standard full size piano keyboard added to the number of valves on a trumpet?
What is 91 (88+3)?
400
When was the historical period known as the "Jazz Age"?
What are the 1920s?
500
How many "Hungarian Dances" are there? (written by Brahms)
What is 21?
500
Which opera by Camille Saint-Saëns is based on a Biblical tale from the Book of Judges in the Old Testament?
What is Samson and Delilah?
500
Which Polish composer, born in 1810 and noted for his piano works, had a love affair with the novelist Amantine Dupin, better known by her pen name of George Sand?
Who is Chopin?
500
What instrument did Ravel orchestrate for the melody in Mussorsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, "The Old Castle"?
What is alto saxophone?
500
Trumpeter Clifford Brown died well before his time. He was just 25 years old. How did he die?
What is car crash?