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Symphonies and their Nicknames

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Symphonies and their Nicknames game quiz
"Many symphonies over the years have had names attached to them: sometimes by the composer, sometimes not. Can you match the composer with the named symphony?"

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. "Symphony of a Thousand"?
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Franz Schubert
    Jean Sibelius
    Gustav Mahler


2. "Scottish"?
    Robert Schumann
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Hamilton Harty
    Benjamin Britten


3. "Little Russian"?
    Peter Tchaikovsky
    Sergei Prokofiev
    Alexander Glazunov
    Sergei Rachmaninov


4. "Haffner"?
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Franz Schubert
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Johannes Brahms


5. "Leningrad"?
    Sergei Prokofiev
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Nicolai Myaskovsky
    Vasily Kalinnikov


6. "Inextinguishable"?
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Carl Nielsen
    Jean Sibelius


7. "Gothic"?
    Gustav Mahler
    William Havergal Brian
    Anton Bruckner
    Alexander Scriabin


8. "Farewell"?
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Alfred Schnittke


9. "Rustic Wedding"?
    Karl Goldmark
    John Field
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Samuel Barber


10. "Irish"?
    Arthur Sullivan
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    All of these
    Hamilton Harty


11. "Il'ya Muromets"?
    Sergei Rachmaninov
    Cesar Cui
    Reinhold Gliere
    Alexander Borodin


12. "Hebridean"?
    Hamilton Harty
    Hamish MacCunn
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Granville Bantock


13. "Divine Poem"?
    Sergei Prokofiev
    Karol Szymanowsky
    Michael Tippett
    Alexander Scriabin


14. "In Memoria di Michelangelo"?
    Alfred Schnittke
    Henryk Gorecki
    Giya Kancheli
    Dmitri Shostakovich


15. "Heroes"?
    Steve Reich
    Terry Riley
    Philip Glass
    John Adams


16. "Unfinished"?
    Johannes Brahms
    Franz Schubert
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Alban Berg


17. "Choral"?
    Hans Werner Henze
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    William Lawes
    Walter Piston


18. "Rhenish"?
    Franz Berwald
    Frank Martin
    Carl Nielsen
    Robert Schumann


19. "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"?
    Giya Kancheli
    Henryk Gorecki
    Arvo Part
    Philip Glass


20. "Sinfonia Antartica"?
    Malcolm Arnold
    Michael Tippett
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Harrison Birtwistle


21. "Prayer"?
    Avet Terterian
    Alfred Schnittke
    Galina Ustvolskaya
    Henryk Gorecki


22. "Spring"?
    Benjamin Britten
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Franz Schubert
    Edward Elgar


23. "St. Florian"?
    Anton Bruckner
    Alfred Schnittke
    Gustav Mahler
    Charles Ives


24. "Santa Claus"?
    Howard Hanson
    George W Chadwick
    Virgil Thomson
    William Henry Fry


25. "Classical"?
    Serge Prokofiev
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Franz Schubert


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