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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."
15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit

1. Who wrote the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"?

Penderecki

Ligeti

Gorecki

Kodaly

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

Cowell

Feldman

Babbitt

Hovahness

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

Taylor-Coleridge

Elgar

Vaughan Williams

Stanford

4. Who wrote "A Low Symphony"?

Grainger

Eno

Glass

Riley

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

Franck

Grainger

Dukas

D'Indy

6. Who wrote the "Baba Yar" symphony?

Liadov

Shostakovich

Ippolitov-Ianov

Gubaidulina

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

Mahler

Medtner

Wagner

Scriabin

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

Grechaninov

Borodin

Balakirev

Glazunov

9. Who wrote the "Icelandic" symphony?

Varese

Rautavaara

Cowell

Finland

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

R. Strauss

Raff

Reger

Hovahness