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WWhat artist depicted scenes from revelation in a set of 15 woodblocks
Albrecht Durer
What composer’s 2nd piano concerto opens with 8 bell like chords and was dedicated to his hypnotist, Nikolai Dahl
Sergei Rachmaninofff
What composer wrote an opera based of The Odyssey titled The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland
Claudio Monteverdi
What artist painted fruit and also painted pyramid of skulls
Paul Cezanne
What artists showed bees morphing into fish in his Metamorphosis II
MC Escher
What artist depicted a series of arches receding away from marble stairs where diogenes lounges
Raphael
In what opera do 2 characters note that love is torture in delight in the duet “Un, di. felice,trerea”
La Traviata
What man translated the bible into Latin and was depicted in the wilderness by Albrecht Durer
Saint Jerome
What new year’s march concludes with the audience clapping along
Radetzky March
What female impressionist artist painted Reading Le Figaro
Cassat
What state did Ansel Adams take Moon and Half Dome
California
What August Strindberg play is named after an upper-class woman
Miss Julie
In what opera does Donna Elvira announce her intention to enter a convent
Don Giovanni
What kind of comic opera did Mozart classify Don Giovanni as
Opera Buffa
What artist painted a man breaking a rod on his knee in The Marriage of the Virgin
Raphael
In what opera does a character sing the aria Un di, felice eterea,
La Traviata
What type of work is Beethoven’s nicknamed emperor
Piano concerto
What key is the dominant of F major
C
What painting shows Mary with the title elongated feature
Madonna with the long neck
In what opera does a character sing quando men vo
La Boheme
What art movement replaced the organic shapes of art noveau with geometric lines
Art Deco
What artist depicted two hands drawing each other
MC Escher
What musical features the con man Harold Hill singing about 76 trombones
The Music Man
What set of works are followed by a concerto titled “The Storm at Sea” and is part of the collection The Contest Between Harmony and Invention
The four Seasons (Vivaldi)
What musical piece features the tenor aria “Comfort ye my people” as it’s first vocal tune
Messiah
What cathedral did Cristopher Wren design
St Paul’s cathedral
Where is St Pauls cathedral
London
What man is depicted in the Landsowne portrait
George Washington
What piece contains the rising phrase D,D, F sharp, A, A
Blue Danube Waltz
What composer included 3 hornpipe movements in Water Music
Handel
What artist’s work The Sower is dominated by a gold-yellow sun
Van Gogh
What composer’s last major orchestral work was his only clarinet concerto
Mozart
What building’s west side had 28 kings of Judah until 1793
Notre Dame
What artist painted multiple portraits of Anna and Karl Kuerner
Andrew Wyeth
What ancient greek artist created the Discobolus
Myron
In what opera does a character repeat his own name in Largo Al Factotum
Barber of Seville
Who wrote the Barber of Seville
Rossini
What artist painted his friend winning a boating contest on the Schuylkill River in Max Schmitt in a single scull
Thomas Eakins
What composer invented the genre of the tone poem
Franz Lizst
What artist depicted a woman with a yellow hat and a cup of coffee in front of two rows of lights
Hopper
What instrument introduces the main theme of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Bassoon
Who wrote the Sorcerer’s Apprentince
Paul Dukas
What artists drew a statue of a bird with a man’s head looking into the title object in his Still Life with Spherical Mirror
MC Escher
What instrument plays the main theme of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Celeste
What artist painted The Bathers and the Mont-Sainte-Victoire series
Paul Cezanne
What tune is played during the tortoises section of The Carnival of the Animals
Can Can
What Beethoven symphony was originally dedicated to Napoleon
Eroica
What composer used Hans Bethge’s translations of Chinese poems to create a movement titled The Drunkard of Spring
Gustav Mahler
In what composers last opera does the Queen of Shemka sing a Hymn to the Sun
Rimsky-Korsakov
What artist drew seven cones floating above a chocolate grinder in a work composed of 2 cracked glass panels
Marcel Duchamp
What artist depicted nudes holding hands in a circle in multiple versions of La Danse
Henry Mattisse
What color is associated with Henry Mattises wife
Green
Who designed the arch
Eero Saarinen
What city did Arnold Schoenberg head a musical school
Vienna
What scientist derived three two by two particles that represent quantum mechanical spin operators for spin 1/2 particles
Wolfgang Pauli
What third movement of Suite Bergamasque is a piano piece whose title translates to moonlight
Clair De Lune
Who wrote Clair De Lune
Debussy
What 6 movement suite was dedicated by Debussy to his daughter and has sections title Jimbo’s lullaby
Children’s Corner suite
Who designed the Vietnam Veterans memorial
Maya Lin
What opera’s title character sings the aria largo al factotum
Barber of Seville
What sculpture can be found in the gardens of a museum named for it’s artists
The Thinker
What painting’s poses were inspired by Agasia’s sculpture Borghese Gladiator
Watson and the Shark
Who painted Watson and the Shark
John Copley
What composer didn’t finish a planned trilogy of oratios including The Apostles and The Kingdom
Edward Elgar
A player of what instrument formed a trio with John Mclaughlin and Larry Young
Drums
What man used pizzicato to represent clashing swords in the Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda
Claudio Monteverdi
What animals are depicted connected to a hand crank in a painting by Paul Clay
Birds
What composer’s opera contains the Prisoner’s Chorus
Beethoven
What painting was bought by the sculptor Maria Martins after it was showcased at the Valentine Gallery
Broadway Boogie Woogie
What school’s member Marianne Brandt created the Kandem bedside Lamp Table
Bauhaus
Who lead the photo secessionist movement and owned Galley 291
Alfred Stieglitz
What A minor piece is played almost exclusively with 16th notes
Flight of the Bumblebee
What artists made WW1 posters such as Smash the Hun
Edward Hopper
What man founded the New York City Ballet alongside Lincoln Kirstien
George Balanchine
What painting’s figures hold 2 globes and stand next to a red robed man that may be a self portrait
School of Athens
What composer’s score for an opera was stolen by a manager and never recovered
Scott Joplin
What composer included a provocative bacchanale in his opera Samson and Delilah
Camille Saint-Seans
What artist created a collaboration which shows him and another artist playing chess in Entract
Marcell Duchamp
What composer created a piano piece where a fast f sharp major frisca section comes after a somber la san section
Franz Lizst
What artist compiled much of his work into a book that features a piece with crosses resting atop mud dwellings called Taos Pueblo
Ansel Adams
What composer wrote an aria where a title character sings to his wife on his wedding day title Rosa del ciel, vita del mondo e degna
Claudio Monteverdi
What man included too many vertebrae in La Grande Odalisque
Jean Auguste Ingres
What man painted Napoleon touching an infected man’s armpit in Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa
Jean-Antoine Gros
What ballet is based on a puppet who comes to life and attempts to woo a ballerina
Petruska
Who wrote Petrushka
Igor Stravinsky
What piece’s 3 parts include a pifa, or pastoral symphony
Messiah
What composer wrote 6 Moments musicaux for solo piano 70 years after Schubert
Sergei Rachmaninoff
What opera concludes with orchestral magic fire music as Loge is summoned to create a protective ring around Brunnhilde
The Valkyrie
Who composed The Valkyrie
Richard Wagner
What man has an incestuous relationship with his twin sister Sieglinde in The Valkyrie
Siegmund
What painting’s leftmost figure wears blue robes and reaches both hands towards the sky
The Opening of the Fifth Seal
Who painted the Opening of the Fifth Seal
El Greco
What Picasso painting was inspired by The Opening of the Fifth Seal
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
What composer included “NOw I see why with such dark flames in his song cycle Kindertotenlieder
Gustav Mahler
in what painting does a black horse look at an incubus sitting on the chest of a sleeping woman
The Nightmare
Who painted The Nightmare
Henry Fuseli
What artists painted a lion standing on top of a sand dune in The Sleepy Gypsy
Henri Rousseau
What tone poem quotes the popular song La Mantovana to portray the title Bohemian River
Die Moldau
What type of instrumental work is typically the first thing played as part of a stage production
Overture
What jazz musician worked with Bob Weinstock to improvise the melody to Sweet Sapphire Blues
John Coletrane
