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Symphonies by their common titles

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Classical Music

	"There are two or three other quizzes similar to this one (not written by me). I will give you the popular name of the symphony (whether attributed by the public or by the composer), and you give me the composer."
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1. Who wrote the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"?

Ligeti

Gorecki

Kodaly

Penderecki

2. Who wrote the symphony called "And God Created Great Whales"?

Feldman

Cowell

Hovahness

Babbitt

3. Whose first symphony was called "A Sea Symphony"?

Vaughan Williams

Stanford

Elgar

Taylor-Coleridge

4. Who wrote "A Low Symphony"?

Grainger

Eno

Glass

Riley

5. Who wrote "Symphony on a French Mountain Air"?

Grainger

Franck

D'Indy

Dukas

6. Who wrote the "Baba Yar" symphony?

Shostakovich

Ippolitov-Ianov

Liadov

Gubaidulina

7. Who called one of his symphonies "Divine Poem"?

Mahler

Scriabin

Wagner

Medtner

8. Whose fourth symphony is "The Lyrical" and fifth symphony is "The Heroic"?

Grechaninov

Borodin

Balakirev

Glazunov

9. Who wrote the "Icelandic" symphony?

Rautavaara

Varese

Finland

Cowell

10. Who wrote the "In The Alps" symphony?

Raff

Reger

R. Strauss

Hovahness