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1. Which of Beethoven's string quartets contain the well-known Cavatina, the beautiful, almost hymn-like, slow movement? Op. 132 (in a minor) Op. 95 (in f minor), aka "Serioso" Beethoven didn't write any such movement Op. 130 (in Bb major)

2. Beethoven's Op. 59 quartets are often known as the __________ Quartets, named after the count who asked Beethoven to write the three. Haydn Schuppanzigh Scarlatti Razumovsky

3. The Triple Concerto by Beethoven is a concerto written for which three instruments and orchestral accompaniment? violin, violin, and violin piano, flue, and violin violin, viola, and cello piano, cello, and violin

4. Mendelssohn's last complete string quartet, Op. 80, was influenced mostly by the death of Fanny, who was his... Answer: (One Word)

5. "From My Life" is the title of which composer's (very autobiographical) string quartet? Alexander Borodin Edvard Grieg Franz Schubert Bedrich Smetana

6. "The Dead Maid" might be another way of naming a (very famous) quartet by which Romantic composer? Answer: (the actual title of the quartet is "Death and the...")

7. Which composer did not write a string quartet? Kreisler Verdi Bernstein Faure

8. Which composer did not write a conventional piano quintet (for piano and strings)? Schubert Dvorak Schumann Beethoven

9. Who transcribed Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" for the string orchestra? Answer: (this guy never wrote a string quartet of his own)

10. Who composed the most string quartets? Dvorak Schubert Beethoven Mendelssohn