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Goudhurst
Recorded Music Society
CLASSICAL FUN MUSIC QUIZ
You will find the answers in books, catalogues or the internet.
Answers on this form to Roger Coombs, Spindles,
Goudhurst TN17 1AA
(you do not have to answer every question)
1.
How many movements are there in Schubert's Unfinished Symphony?
2. Who wrote the opera 'Lucio Silla?
3. In which opera are the last chilling words "Kill her!" ?
4. Who was treated by Dr Dahl for depression and then composed a great
piano concerto?
5. Which 16th century aristocratic composer murdered his wife?
6. Whose third symphony was 'realised' by Anthony Payne?
7. Whose third symphony is known as 'The Scottish'?
8. Whose third symphony is known as 'The Polish'?
9. Whose third symphony is known as 'The Pastoral'?
10. Who wrote a symphony nicknamed 'The Palindrome'?
11. On what instrument would you find a 'tierce'?
12. Who, enigmatically, was EDU?
13. They call me Mimi but my name is _____?'
14. What four letter word suggests a typical plagal cadence?
15. Who built a huge opera house for the performance of his own works?
16. Whose music is featured in the film 'Death in Venice'?
17. How many voices are needed to take part in the response 'Spem in Alium?
18. Who was Delius' amanuensis when he lost his sight?
19. Who wrote the ballet 'The Spider's Feast'?
20. Which orchestral score specifies a recording of a nightingale?
21. Who said of his own fourth symphony 'If that is modern music, I don't
much like it.'
22. In which opera did someone ask 'Has anyone heard of a May King?'
23. How would you play a baryton?
24. Which opera has four alternative overtures?
25. Whose first two symphonies are in A flat and E flat?
26. Who, in 1770, wrote Symphony No 41 in C?
27. Who wrote 555 keyboard sonatas?
28. Which opera did Puccini leave unfinished?
29. Susan Tomes has been a guest presenter to the Goudhurst RMS. How is
she best known?
30. Which world-famous orchestra has no full-time conductor?
31. Which opera ends in a massive choral fugue?
32. Who unwittingly (and expensively) recorded a terrible Queen of the
Night aria?
33. Which popular song did Shostakovich rescore as 'Tahiti Trot' during
a train journey?
34. Who stole the Ring of the Niebelungen from the dwarf?
35. For what instrument did Alexandre Guilmant chiefly compose?
36. How many symphonies by Haydn are listed in the Hoboken catalogue?
37. How old was Mendelssohn when he wrote the famous octet?
38. Which opera is set in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon?
39. Liszt wrote a prelude and fugue for organ on the name B-A-C-H. Which
note is H?
40. What nationality is the composer Zemlinsky?
41. What nationality is the pianist and Bach specialist Angela Hewitt?
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