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Composers Flashcards

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Which German composer’s works include the Brandenburg Concertos the Goldberg Variations two Passions and a Mass in B minor?

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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

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Inspired by a poem by George Meredith which work by Ralph Vaughan Williams has been voted number one in the Classic FM annual Hall of Fame poll 8 times?

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THE LARK ASCENDING

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Who composed the piece popularly known as the 1812 Overture to commemorate Russia’s defence of its motherland against Napoleon’s invading Grande Armée in 1812?

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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

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Which seven-movement orchestral suite by Gustav Holst was written between 1914 and 1916? Holst adapted the melody of the fourth movement to fit the metre of a poem beginning I Vow to Thee My Country.

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THE PLANETS

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Who composed the one-movement orchestral piece known as Boléro which premiered in 1928?

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MAURICE RAVEL

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Between 1825 and 1849 who composed 21 nocturnes 16 polonaises 24 preludes and 52 mazurkas?

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FREDERIC CHOPIN

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Which work by Rachmaninoff features significantly in David Lean’s 1945 film Brief Encounter and is frequently voted number two in the Classic FM annual Hall of Fame poll?

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PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2

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Which Russian composer suffered two official denunciations of his music in 1936 and 1948 and the periodic banning of his work?

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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

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In which 1790 opera by Mozart do two soldiers (Guglielmo and Ferrando) disguise themselves as Albanians to test the fidelity of their lovers?

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COSI FAN TUTTE

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The score of which composition by John Cage instructs the performers not to play their instruments during the entire duration of the piece?

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4’33” (FOUR MINUTES 33 SECONDS)

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Which 1853 opera by Verdi which was originally titled Violetta (after the main character) is based on La Dame aux Camélias a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils?

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LA TRAVIATA

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Which 1904 opera by Puccini is set in the Japanese city of Nagasaki?

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MADAME BUTTERFLY

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The Music for the Royal Fireworks was composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession under contract of which king?

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GEORGE II

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What is the English translation of Götterdämmerung the last work in Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle?

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TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

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Which symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is based on One Thousand and One Nights sometimes known as The Arabian Nights?

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SCHEHERAZADE

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Cavalleria rusticana has often been performed in a so-called Cav/Pag double-bill with which opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo?

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PAGLIACCI

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The Holst Birthplace Museum is in which English town where the composer was born in 1874?

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CHELTENHAM

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What name is shared by Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6?

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PATHETIQUE

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Façade and Belshazzar’s Feast are among the best known works of which composer who was born in Oldham in 1928 and died on the Italian island of Ischia in 1983?

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WILLIAM WALTON

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The Polovtsian Dances form a scene at the end of Act II of which opera by Alexander Borodin?

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PRINCE IGOR

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The works of which composer are categorized by D numbers after Otto Deutsch who compiled a numbered list of all his compositions?

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FRANZ SCHUBERT

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In which German city was Beethoven born in 1770?

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BONN

23
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Who composed the ‘Portrait Trilogy’ of operas (Satyagraha Einstein on the Beach and Akhnaten) between 1975 and 1983?

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PHILIP GLASS

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Which opera which was unfinished at the time of Puccini’s death contains the aria Nessun Dorma which is sung by Calaf?

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TURANDOT

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What is the name of Symphony No.41 in C major the longest and last symphony that Mozart composed?

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JUPITER

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Which opera by Benjamin Britten is based on a novel of the same name by Herman Melville and is set during the French Revolutionary Wars?

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BILLY BUDD

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Which composer’s Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major is often called the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ because it requires a very large orchestra?

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GUSTAV MAHLER

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La Donna e Mobile is sung by the Duke of Mantua in which opera by Verdi?

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RIGOLETTO

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Which work of 1899 did Edward Elgar dedicate “to my friends pictured within”?

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ENIGMA VARIATIONS

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One of the group known as ‘The Five’ or ‘The Mighty Five’ who composed the opera Khovanshchina which was unfinished when he died in 1881?

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MODEST MUSSORGSKY

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Clair de Lune is the third movement of which piano suite by Claude Debussy?

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SUITE BERGAMASQUE

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The Hoboken catalogue which includes over 750 entries is a catalogue of the musical compositions by which composer?

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JOSEPH HAYDN

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By what name is Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 known? It was composed in 1830 in honour of the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession.

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REFORMATION

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Who composed the symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice which appears in the Walt Disney 1940 animated film Fantasia?

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PAUL DUKAS

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What nationality is Arvo Pärt who has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional technique tintinnabuli since the 1970s?

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ESTONIAN

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What is the name of Carmen’s lover who stabs her to death at the end of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet?

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DON JOSE

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Which German poet wrote Ode to Joy which is best known for its use by Beethoven in the final movement of his Symphony No. 9 in D minor also known as the ‘Choral’?

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FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

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The group of six symphonies (No. 82 to No. 87) by Joseph Haydn are collectively named after which European city?

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PARIS

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Who was the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six?

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GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE

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The signature tune for the European Broadcasting Union heard in the opening credits of the Eurovision Song Contest is a prelude to the hymn Te Deum by which French baroque composer?

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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER

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Who is best known for his orchestral ‘Roman trilogy’: Fountains of Rome Pines of Rome and Roman Festivals?

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OTTORINO RESPIGHI

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Which Austrian composer developed the twelve-tone technique a method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale?

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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

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Who composed Funeral March of a Marionette in 1872 which is best known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents?

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CHARLES GOUNOD

44
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Which opera by John Adams centres on key players in the Manhattan Project especially Robert Oppenheimer?

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DOCTOR ATOMIC

45
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Often quoted as becoming Britain’s first millionaire composer who composed In A Monastery Garden which sold over a million copies?

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ALBERT KETELBEY

46
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Which animals are represented in the fourth movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens where the strings play a slow rendition of the ‘Galop infernal’ (the Can-can) from Offenbach’s operetta Orpheus in the Underworld?

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TORTOISES

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Who composed the 1829 opera La muette de Portici which is generally regarded as the earliest French grand opera?

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DANIEL AUBER

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Turbulent Landscapes and Simon Bolivar are works by which female composer who was born in Scotland but has lived in the United States since 1972?

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THEA MUSGRAVE

49
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Which piano piece by Edvard Grieg was written in 1896 as a memorial of the 25th wedding anniversary of Grieg and his wife Nina?

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WEDDING DAY AT TROLDHAUGEN

50
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Which French-born composer coined the term “organized sound” in reference to his own musical aesthetic?

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EDGARD VARESE

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