111501. |
Classical Music: Who dedicated his first three piano sonatas to Josef Haydn
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111502. |
Classical Music: The Classical Sonata form usually has:
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111503. |
Classical Music: Gluck, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven:
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111504. |
Classical Music: The second movement of the Sonata form is usually:
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111505. |
Classical Music: The first movement of a Sonata is usually:
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111506. |
Classical Music: Vivaldi, Purcell, Handle, and Bach were composers of the:
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111507. |
Classical Music: Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Verdi were composers of the:
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111508. |
Classical Music: Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy, Serge Rachmaninov and Bela Bartok were all composers of the:
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111509. |
Classical Music: Adagio refers to:
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111510. |
Classical Music: The musical term for a fast tempo is:
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111511. |
Classical Music: The literal imitation of one melody, instrumental or vocal, by another at a specific time interval is:
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111512. |
Classical Music: A Canzone is:
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111513. |
Classical Music: Several independent voices, each entering separately with the subject or answer are identifying characteristics of:
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111514. |
Classical Music: Which composer was so fastidious in his preparation of coffee that he would actually count out the number of beans per cup
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111515. |
Classical Music: Which composer is known for a lullaby which bears his name:
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111516. |
Classical Music: Which composer wrote the piano work "Microkosmos" to teach children the modern idiom
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111517. |
Classical Music: The Concerto for Orchestra was written by :
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111518. |
Classical Music: This European composer spent the last years of his life living in appalling poverty in New York City. Near the end, he was commissioned to write a piece for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His name:
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111519. |
Classical Music: To which opus was Robert Schauffler referring when he said; "It is as long as a symphony, as brilliant and as difficult as a concerto. "
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111520. |
Classical Music: Chopin and George Sand hoped to have an idyllic holiday on this island paradise. Instead it turned into a nightmare. Name this island.
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111521. |
Classical Music: An American popular-song composer based this hit song on Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu. This tune is:
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111522. |
Classical Music: Who wrote the "Unfinished Symphony" (in B minor)
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111523. |
Classical Music: 80 years after his death, Bach was all but forgotten by the general public. Which composer is credited with reviving interest in Bach after his death.
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111524. |
Classical Music: Who composed "Clair de Lune"
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111525. |
Classical Music: Who composed the piano piece, "Liebestraum"
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111526. |
Classical Music: Which composer is credited with having first developed the twelve tone technique
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111527. |
Classical Music: Who composed the musical piece "Silence" for solo piano
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111528. |
Classical Music: Which composer used the Prelude No. 1 in C from the Well Tempered Clavier by Bach as an accompaniment for a beautiful and famous religious melody
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111529. |
Classical Music: Who wrote "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy"
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111530. |
Classical Music: Who wrote the well known "Wedding March"
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111531. |
Classical Music: Which one of the following works was penned by Gustav Holst
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111532. |
Classical Music: At the beginning of his career, Glenn Gould recorded a work which he recorded again shortly before he died. This was :
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111533. |
Classical Music: "A Night on Bald Mountain " was written by:
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111534. |
Classical Music: The "Peer Gynt Suite" was written by:
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111535. |
Classical Music: The Rakoczy March is named for the leader of what country's campaign against Austria
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111536. |
Classical Music: What composer wrote a piece which became the nationalanthem of two different countries
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111537. |
Classical Music: The opening line of this song asks, "My God, Why hast Thou forsaken me"
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111538. |
Classical Music: What composer was born in Rohfrau, Lower Austria in 1732 and dies in Vienna in 1809
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111539. |
Classical Music: Schubert's "The Earl King" sets to music the work of what great poet
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111540. |
Classical Music: This composer was born in 1860 in Bohemia and died in 1911 in Vienna.
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111541. |
Classical Music: Between 1791 and 1795, this continental composer spent most of his time writing symphonies in London.
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111542. |
Classical Music: "Who is Sylvia" was set to music by Schubert. Who wrote the poem
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111543. |
Classical Music: Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake" provided the words for which of Schubert's songs
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111544. |
Classical Music: Handel's "Messiah" is best remembered for this excerpt which comes at the end of the second section.
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111545. |
Classical Music: Who wrote "Funeral March of a Marionette"
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111546. |
Classical Music: In 1853 Gounod published "Meditation sur le premiere Prelude de S. Bach". You may know it better as:
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111547. |
Classical Music: Who wrote "Golliwog's Cake-walk"
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111548. |
Classical Music: Who wrote a collection of 24 compositions, comprising one in each of the major and minor keys, to demonstrate the benefits of the equal temperament system
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111549. |
Classical Music: Bach's "Die Hohe Messe" (High Mass), written during his stay in Leipzig, is known by its key signature.
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111550. |
Classical Music: Who wrote the words to "Der Ring des Nibelungen"
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111551. |
Classical Music: This son of J.S.Bach composed such works as "The Israelites in the Wilderness", "Passion Cantata", and "Solfeggio in C minor".
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111552. |
Classical Music: This Russian pianist and composer endured the German siege of Leningrad.
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111553. |
Classical Music: The 11th and youngest son of J.S. Bach studied in Italy before moving to which country where his musical career fluorished
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111554. |
Classical Music: This ballet was first performed in 1892 in St. Petersburg.
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111555. |
Classical Music: "Fur Elise was written in 1810 as a short piano piece by what composer
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111556. |
Classical Music: The song "Stranger in Paradise" (1953) was taken from what 19th century Russian composition
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111557. |
Classical Music: Name the Ibsen play for which Edward Grieg composed incidental music.
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111558. |
Classical Music: Debussy's "Claire de Lune" is taken from what collection of piano pieces
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111559. |
Classical Music: In what key is the Moonlight Sonata
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111560. |
Classical Music: His "Slavonic Dances" were originally written for four hands on the piano, but are today better known in their orchestral version.
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111561. |
Classical Music: The Rakoczy March is named for the leader of what country'scampaign against Austria
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111562. |
Classical Music: Who wrote "Flight of the Bumblebee"
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111563. |
Classical Music: In 1829 Mendelssohn conducted "St. Matthew's Passion" in the Berlin opera house. This event marked the revival of what famous composer's neglected works
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111564. |
Classical Music: In 1867 Paul Dukas published this piece based on a story by Goethe.
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111565. |
Classical Music: In 1834, this composer published "Songs without Words", a book of piano selections.
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111566. |
Classical Music: Mozart borrowed the opening theme for "The Magic Flute" from the B-flat Sonata of what Italian-British composer
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111567. |
Classical Music: John Field was the first to use this title for a short piano piece in a romantic mood. Chopin acheived great success in developing this form.
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111568. |
Classical Music: The "G-string" in Bach's well-known Air refers to a string on what instrument
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111569. |
Classical Music: Tchaikowsky's "Marche Slave" is based on a folk-song of what national origin
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111570. |
Classical Music: Which pianist-composer permanently injured his hand by wearing a home-made contraption designed to immobilize the fourth finger while practising
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111571. |
Classical Music: French writer George Sand is remembered for her affair with which composer
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111572. |
Classical Music: Bach's "Goldberg Variations" are best known today through the recording of this Canadian pianist.
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111573. |
Classical Music: What composition was structured on a single theme repeated over and over
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111574. |
Classical Music: This famours astronomer was the son of a composer.
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111575. |
Classical Music: What poem by Goethe inspired music by Wagner, Schumann, Gounod, and Liszt
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111576. |
Classical Music: This composer born in 1875 is of Basque origin.
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111577. |
Classical Music: Who wrote "Mephisto Waltz"
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111578. |
Classical Music: Who wrote "Peter and the Wolf"
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111579. |
Classical Music: His piano sonatas include the "Waldstein" and "Pastorale".
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111580. |
Classical Music: The terms "Exposition - Development - Recapitulation" describe which classical structural form
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111581. |
Classical Music: The composer is said to have written this piece upon learning of the capture of Warsaw by the Russians.
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111582. |
Classical Music: This Russian composer is responsible for the stirring Prelude in C# minor.
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111583. |
Classical Music: What was the connection between Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti
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111584. |
Classical Music: Chopin's Polonaise #53 in Ab was adapted for what popular song
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111585. |
Classical Music: Walt Disney's "Fantasia" included a performance of what composer's "Tocatta and Fugue in D minor"
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111586. |
Classical Music: Who introduced the idea of composition based on "tone-rows"
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111587. |
Classical Music: This pianist gave his first public performance in 1892, his last in 1976.
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111588. |
Classical Music: In what key did Franz Liszt write the beautiful Liebestraum #3
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111589. |
Classical Music: What composer wrote "Finlandia"
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111590. |
Classical Music: In what Austrian city is an annual Mozart festival held
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111591. |
Classical Music: Alexander Scriabin(1872-1915), whose works include the symphonic poem "Prometheus", was known in his time for his:
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111592. |
Classical Music: Who wrote the "Water Music"
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111593. |
Classical Music: Mussorgski's "Boris Godunov" was to political for the Russia of the czars. Who revised in to make it more acceptable
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111594. |
Classical Music: Tchaikowsky made use of what newly invented instrument in "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies"
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111595. |
Classical Music: This composer died in Paris from cancer of the rectum while the city was being shelled by the German Army in 1918.
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111596. |
Classical Music: Puccini's finest opera was completed after his death by his frend Franco Alfano. It is a fairy tale about a cruel but beautiful Chinese princess.
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111597. |
Classical Music: Tchaikowsky's "Piano Concerto in A-flat minor" was rejected as "unplayable" by the 19th century virtuoso for whom it was written.
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111598. |
Classical Music: A performance by this folk-orchestra at the Paris Exhibition is said to have made a marked impression on Debussy.
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111599. |
Classical Music: Bach wrote a charming collection of easy piano pieces for his second wife:
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111600. |
Classical Music: Debussy is noted for his use of this non-traditional scale.
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