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Symphonies and their Nicknames

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Classical Music
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"?
    Gustav Mahler
    Jean Sibelius
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Franz Schubert


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


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"?
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Karl Goldmark
    John Field
    Samuel Barber


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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