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Another Musical Alphabet

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Classical Music : Another Musical Alphabet

Introduction:
"This is my second musical alphabet. Unlike the first one, which related to musical terms and instruments, the subject this time is composers. "


1. This French composer wrote the melody for "O Holy Night" as well as
the ballet "Giselle"
    Adolph Adam
    Issac Albeniz
    Samuel Adler
    Francisco Alonso


2. This composer wrote for orchestra and Broadway. He was conductor
of the New York Philharmonic, and made a famous television series
introducing children to classical music.
    John Bennet
    Arnold Bax
    Arthur Benjamin
    Leonard Bernstein


3. This American avant guard composer wrote for piano, "prepared piano",
percussion, and orchestra. His most famous work is titled 4'33".
    Elliot Carter
    John Corigliano
    Thomas Campion
    John Cage


4. A theme from a waltz written by this Austrian composer and
publisher was used by Beethoven as the basis of his variations, named
for this composer.
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Marcel Dupre
    Paul Dukas
    Anton Diabelli


5. Who was the composer of the "Pomp and Circumstance" marches?
    Duke Ellington
    Maurice Emmanuel
    Edward Elgar
    George Enescu


6. This Spaniard wrote "The Three Cornered Hat" and "Nights in the
Gardens of Spain":
    Cesar Franck
    Zdenck Fibich
    Gabriel Faure
    Manuel de Falla


7. Name the American pianist and composer from New Orleans who wrote
various piano and orchestral pieces which include "The Banjo" and "A
Night in the Tropics"
    Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    Ferde Grofe
    Charles Gounod
    Gabriel Grovlez


8. This German composer wrote an opera based on the life of Matthias Gruenwald.
    Georg Frederic Handel
    Paul Hindemith
    Hans Henze
    Stephen Heller


9. Who wrote the ballet "Diane de Poitiers" as well as a setting of
"The Ballad of Reading Jail", and a song cycle "Songs of Don Quixote"?
    Jacques Ibert
    John Ireland
    Vincent d'Indy
    Charles Ives


10. Who wrote the opera "The Cunning Little Vixen"?
    Clement Janequin
    Leos Janacek
    Joseph Joachim
    Archibald Joyce


11. This Russian composer wrote the opera "The Comedians", two cello
concertos, and a suite of incidental music to "Romeo and Juliet", among
other works.
    Jerome Kern
    Aram Khachaturian
    Dmitry Kabalevsky
    Vasily Kalinnikov


12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father was also a composer. What was his
first name?
    Answer: (One Word - Same as Stokowsky's first name)


13. What American composer wrote "Amahl and the Night Visitors"?
    Gian Carlo Menotti
    Edward MacDowell
    John Mitchell
    Jef Maes


14. Who wrote the opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?
    Carl Nielsen
    Santo Nicolo
    Luigi Nono
    Otto Nicolai


15. This German composer and musicologist wrote a book about musical
instruments, as well as composing the melody for the hymn "Lo How a
Rose E'er Blooming"
    Perotin
    Hans Pfitzner
    Michael Praetorius
    Johann Pachelbel


16. Who was the Russian composer and teacher who composed "The Golden
Cockerel" and "Scheherazade" and who arranged and orchestrated
Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain"?
    Max Reger
    Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Anton Rubenstein


17. Which Italian composer taught Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt, among
others?
    Jean Sibelius
    Giovanni Sammartini
    Antonio Salieri
    Roger Sessions


18. This Swiss virtuoso pianist wrote piano arrangements of operatic themes
from operas such as "Don Giovanni" or "The Barber of Seville".
    Sigismond Thalberg
    Ernst Toch
    John Taverner
    Alexandre Tansman


19. "Joe Green" wrote many operas and established a home for retired
musicians in his native Milan. What name is he better known by?
    Gerard Victory
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Edgar Varese
    Jazeps Vitols


20. Who was the German composer of "The Threepenny
Opera", a modernization of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera"?
    Hugo Wolf
    Carl Maria von Weber
    Kurt Weill
    Emile Waldteufel


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