Small Talk About Historical Classics

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1. Which of Wagner's works is the famous 'Here Comes The Bride' (Wedding March) taken from? Lohengrin Tristan and Isolde Tannhauser The Mastersingers of Nuremberg

2. Apart from Wagner's 'Here Comes The Bride' there are of course many other 'suitable' 'wedding marches' as well. One of those rivalling compositions was by another German composer who hardly could have been a friend of Wagner's. Who is that German composer? Ludwig van Beethoven Felix Mendelssohn Johannes Brahms Robert Schumann

3. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi,the maker of one of the most popular baroque musicworks, 'The Four Seasons' was technically speaking a priest. What was his nickname? The Magpie of Ventemiglia The Nightingale of Verona The Mad Priest of Viterbo The Red Priest of Venice

4. A recent study published in a serious 'Psychiatric Bulletin' claims that one of the most famous compositions in twentieth century European music may have been the work of a composer whose mind was debilitated by Alzheimer's Disease. This 'diagnosis' has been based on the 18 times that the central melody is repeated without any change. In which 'classic' masterpiece does this oddity occur? Bizet's aria 'Toreador' from Carmen Ravel's 'Bolero' Kachaturian's Sabre Dance Tchaikovski's 'Nutcracker-suite'

5. Popular masterpieces need not be lengthy works. As what did Ludwig van Beethoven 'classify' his famous mini-composition 'Fuer Elise'? A minuet. A sonatina. A bagatelle. A triolet.

6. Boccherini's 'Minuet' is definitely one of the most popular works in eighteenth century music. What was a 'minuet' originally? An Italian type of flute, a precursor of the piccolo. The traditional name for the third movement in a classic symphony. A smaller version of the piano-like 'spinet'. A French dance in triple metre.

7. Few composers are as exclusively known for just ONE work as Pachelbel for his 'Canon'. What country was he born in ? Turkey Austria Germany Bohemia (=Czechia)

8. Which Swedish film used Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto as main musical theme? 'Adalen '31' by Bo Widerberg 1969 'Scenes From A Marriage' by Ingmar Bergman 1974 'Wild Strawberries' by Ingmar Bergman 1959 'Elvira Madigan' by Bo Widerberg 1967

9. Which of these composers was a lifelong bachelor? Johann Sebastian Bach Ludwig van Beethoven W.A. Mozart Edward Grieg

10. Where was Haendel's 'Messiah' performed for the very first time? Dublin Hanover New York London