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Classical Music Quiz 1

4.4
(36 votes)
12 questions
English
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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classical music
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1
48 sequential squares

Who composed this?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Johann Sebastian Bach

Joseph Haydn

Ludwig van Beethoven

44% got this right

"Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major) was composed in 1787.
2
48 sequential squares

Who composed this?

Ludwig van Beethoven

Georges Bizet

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

64% 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.
3
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Who composed this?

Antonio Vivaldi

Niccolò Paganini

Georg Friedrich Händel

Johann Sebastian Bach

62% got this right

This is part of "Winter" ("L'inverno") from "The Four Seasons" composed around 1719.
4
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Who composed this?

Georges Bizet

Giuseppe Verdi

Richard Wagner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Hard  26% got this right

The "Habanera" is an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opéra comique "Carmen".
5
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Who composed this?

Johann Strauss II

Franz Schubert

Georg Friedrich Händel

Johannes Brahms

40% got this right

"An der schönen blauen Donau" is likely the most famous waltz. Composed in 1866, it became linked with Austrian culture.
6
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Who composed this?

Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski

Frédéric Chopin

Johann Sebastian Bach

Richard Strauss

48% got this right

The "1812 Overture" commemorates Russia's successful defense of the French invasion of the country by Napoleon in 1812.
7

Who composed this?

Richard Wagner

Georg Friedrich Händel

Johann Sebastian Bach

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

42% got this right

"Die Walküre" is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen".
8

Who composed this?

Johann Sebastian Bach

Antonio Vivaldi

Johannes Brahms

Ludwig van Beethoven

Hard  27% got this right

Bach's "Air" from the Ochestral Suite No. 3. (Yes I know Bach is technically a Baroque composer).
9

Who composed this?

Richard Strauss

Niccolò Paganini

Claude Debussy

Georges Bizet

Hard  32% got this right

Also sprach Zarathustra is a tone poem composed in 1896. Richard isn't related to the Austrian Strauss composer dynasty.
10
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Who composed this?

Georg Friedrich Händel

Antonio Vivaldi

Frédéric Chopin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Hard  34% got this right

"Hallelujah" from "The Messiah Part II". (Yes, I know, technically Baroque again). He lived most of his life in England.
11

Who composed this?

Frédéric Chopin

Claude Debussy

Johann Sebastian Bach

Ludwig van Beethoven

41% got this right

Chopin composed "Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2" around 1831 at the age of around 20.
12
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Who composed this banger?

Giuseppe Verdi

Alban Berg

Giacomo Puccini

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Hard  34% 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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