Register New Player - Log In
Welcome to our world of fun trivia quizzes and quiz games:     New Player quiz register Play Now! trivia game

Classical Composers - Odd One Out

Created by celicadriver

Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Composers Mixture
Classical Composers  Odd One Out game quiz
"One of the composers listed for each question does not belong. Your job will be to select the odd one out based on the clue given in the question. Good luck and have fun!"

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Which one of these is associated with a different country than the others?
    Dmitry Shostakovich
    Sergey Prokofiev
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Gustav Holst


2. Who among these composers is not from the same country as the other three?
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    John Adams
    Henry Purcell
    John Jenkins


3. Who in this group is the odd one out? (Three are known for their works in a certain genre, while the oddball never wrote in that genre.)
    J.S. Bach
    George Frideric Handel
    Giacomo Puccini
    Richard Wagner


4. Who was not a member of "The Five?"
    Alexander Borodin
    Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
    Modest Mussorgsky
    Igor Stravinsky


5. Who was not one of "Les Six?"
    Francis Poulenc
    Darius Milhaud
    Arthur Honegger
    Gabriel Faure


6. Who did not belong to the "Second Viennese School?"
    Anton Webern
    Alban Berg
    Gustav Mahler
    Arnold Schoenberg


7. Let's try a little chronology. Which composer was not a contemporary of the other three?
    Guillaume DuFay
    George Crumb
    Phillip Glass
    Krzyzstof Penderecki


8. Who in this set doesn't belong? (The odd one did not live during the same era as the other three.)
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
    Josquin Desprez
    Orlando di Lasso
    Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf


9. Three of these composers died tragically young, but which one lived to a ripe old age?
    Franz Schubert
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Giuseppe Verdi


10. Can you spot the gentleman hiding among the ladies?
    Camille Saint-Saens
    Fanny Mendelssohn
    Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
    Hildegard von Bingen


Copyright, FunTrivia.com. All Rights Reserved.
Legal / Conditions of Use
Compiled Jun 28 12