General Music

Question 1

2022 sees the 75th anniversary of the West End premiere of which musical by Irving Berlin?

Answer 1

Annie Get Your Gun

Question 2

2022 sees the 75th anniversary of the West End premiere of which musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein?

Answer 2

Oklahoma!

Question 3

What nationality was Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo?

Answer 3

Italian

Question 4

Which work by Felix Mendelssohn was composed sixteen years apart?

Answer 4

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Question 5

What is an alternative name for Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture?

Answer 5

Fingal’s Cave

Question 6

Mendelssohn’s third symphony is named after which country?

Answer 6

Scotland

Question 7

Mendelssohn’s fourth symphony is named in tribute to which mainland European country?

Answer 7

Italy

Question 8

Mendelssohn’s most famous works for piano were written years apart, and released under what name?

Answer 8

Songs without words

Question 9

Mendelssohn’s work for solo piano and partly written to raise funds for a bust of Mozart go under which name?

Answer 9

Variations Serieuse

Question 10

Name a biblical oratorio by Mendelssohn

Answer 10

Elijah

Question 11

Debussy’s Clair de Lune is the third
Movement in which suite?

Answer 11

Suite Bergamasque

Question 12

What is the only opera completed by Debussy?

Answer 12

Pelleas et Mellisande

Question 13

What was the title of the first book in Debussy’s Images?

Answer 13

Reflections in the Water

Question 14

What was the title of the second book in Debussy’s Images?

Answer 14

Bells Through the Leaves

Question 15

What is the name of Debussy’s ballet about three children searching for a lost ball in the undergrowth?

Answer 15

Jeux

Question 16

Complete the title of the Liszt works ‘____ Etudes’

Answer 16

Transcendental

Question 17

What is the name of the late work Written by Liszt partly due to premonitions about Wagner’s death?

Answer 17

The Black Gondola

Question 18

Liszt wrote four waltzes names after which Biblical and literary character?

Answer 18

Mephisto/ Mephistopheles

Question 19

What title is given to Dvorak’s String Quartet No 12?

Answer 19

American

Question 20

Daniel Barenboim set up which orchestra?

Answer 20

Divan Orchestra

Question 21

Who composed the piece ‘Like as the hart’ for the Queen’s funeral?

Answer 21

Judith Weir

Question 22

James McMillan’s piece for the Queen’s funeral was entitled what?

Answer 22

‘Who shall separate us?’

Question 23

The Queen’s funeral ended with a piece entitled ‘sleep, dearie sleep’ on which instrument?

Answer 23

Organ

Question 24

After the Queen’s funeral service an organ piece by which composer was played?

Answer 24

Elgar

Question 25

The Mighty Handful consisted of which five composers?

Answer 25

César Cui, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov