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Classical Music Quiz 1

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12 questions

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Can you guess which composers created these 12 iconic masterpieces of classical music? These are all well-known pieces of music. Name of the composition in the fun fact box :)

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Who composed this?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Johann Sebastian Bach

Joseph Haydn

Ludwig van Beethoven

56% got this right

"Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major) was composed in 1787.

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Who composed this?

Ludwig van Beethoven

Georges Bizet

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

72% got this right

Beethoven's "Symphony No. 9" was first performed in Vienna in 1824. It is also used as the Anthem of the European Union.

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Who composed this?

Antonio Vivaldi

Niccolò Paganini

Georg Friedrich Händel

Johann Sebastian Bach

69% got this right

This is part of "Winter" ("L'inverno") from "The Four Seasons" composed around 1719.

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Who composed this?

Georges Bizet

Giuseppe Verdi

Richard Wagner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

32% got this right

The "Habanera" is an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opéra comique "Carmen".

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Who composed this?

Johann Strauss II

Franz Schubert

Georg Friedrich Händel

Johannes Brahms

68% got this right

"An der schönen blauen Donau" is likely the most famous waltz. Composed in 1866, it became linked with Austrian culture.

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Who composed this?

Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski

Frédéric Chopin

Johann Sebastian Bach

Richard Strauss

67% got this right

The "1812 Overture" commemorates Russia's successful defense of the French invasion of the country by Napoleon in 1812.

Who composed this?

Richard Wagner

Georg Friedrich Händel

Johann Sebastian Bach

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

62% got this right

"Die Walküre" is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen".

Who composed this?

Johann Sebastian Bach

Antonio Vivaldi

Johannes Brahms

Ludwig van Beethoven

37% got this right

Bach's "Air" from the Ochestral Suite No. 3. (Yes I know Bach is technically a Baroque composer).

Who composed this?

Richard Strauss

Niccolò Paganini

Claude Debussy

Georges Bizet

38% got this right

Also sprach Zarathustra is a tone poem composed in 1896. Richard isn't related to the Austrian Strauss composer dynasty.

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Who composed this?

Georg Friedrich Händel

Antonio Vivaldi

Frédéric Chopin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

51% got this right

"Hallelujah" from "The Messiah Part II". (Yes, I know, technically Baroque again). He lived most of his life in England.

Who composed this?

Frédéric Chopin

Claude Debussy

Johann Sebastian Bach

Ludwig van Beethoven

39% got this right

Chopin composed "Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2" around 1831 at the age of around 20.

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Who composed this banger?

Giuseppe Verdi

Alban Berg

Giacomo Puccini

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

31% got this right

"Dies Irae" ("The Day of Wrath") is part of Verdi's "Requiem" ("Funeral Mass"). It was first performed in 1874 in Milan.

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