Early Life
The Maestro
The Music
Christoph & Family
The Storm and Drama
100
The great musical city in Austria, which serves as the setting for this movie.
What is Vienna?
100
This was Beethoven's first name.
What is Ludwig?
100
The last symphony Beethoven composed.
What is the 9th Symphony?
100
This 10-year-old boy was the hero in the movie. The story is told from his point of view.
Who is Christoph?
100
The upstairs maid, often at odds with the great composer.
Who is Sophie?
200
This stringed instrument was among many that Beethoven mastered as a child.
What is the violin.
200
A famous composer in his own right, this was a teacher and mentor to young Beethoven.
Who is Haydn?
200
This composition, nicknamed the "Choral" was Beethoven's final great musical work.
What is the Ninth Symphony?
200
This was the name of Christoph's uncle, his father's younger brother.
Who is Kurt?
200
He handled the composer's daily and financial affairs, enabling Beethoven to devote himself to his music.
Who is Schindler?
300
This man, rumored to be harsh, was young Beethoven's first music teacher.
Who is Beethoven's father?
300
The loss of this sense caused Beethoven to turn from performance to composition as a means of livelihood.
What is hearing?
300
This number tells how many black and white keys can be found on a piano.
What is 88?
300
The name of the famous piano piece that Christoph's mother played in the movie.
What is "Fur Elise".
300
This genre of literature gives facts in a narrative format.
What is historical fiction?
400
The city of Beethoven's birth, now in Germany. In 1770 it was the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire.
What is Bonn?
400
Although Beethoven began composing in the Classical era, his music developed to make him the most important composer of this era.
What is the Romantic era?
400
Beethoven's 3rd symphony (the Eroica) was originally dedicated to this French leader.
Who is Napoleon?
400
The recently deceased family member, a physician by trade.
Who is Christoph's father?
400
This 19th century ticking device was invented to help music students "keep time" and is still in common use today. The sound is imitated in Beethoven's 2nd Symphony.
What is a metronome?
500
As a child, Beethoven was often compared to this great composer, also a child prodigy.
Who is Mozart?
500
A device shaped like a musical instrument. Beethoven was known to have many of these, with little or no success.
What is an ear trumpet?
500
This C-minor symphony may well be the most famous ever written. It is associated with the letter "v" and "victory".
What is the Fifth Symphony?
500
It was in this city (renowned as the birthplace of Mozart, Schubert and Strauss) that Christoph's uncle studied music.
What is Salzburg [Austria]?
500
In the movie, Beethoven gave this nickname to young Christoph.
What is "Gatekeeper"?