Music, Operas, Plays

Question 1

Who composed Carmen

Answer 1

Bizet

Question 2

What did Verdi compose (3 things)

Answer 2

Rigoletto; Aida; La Traviata

Question 3

What did Puccini compose (4 things)

Answer 3

La Boheme; Madame Butterfly; Turandot; Tosca

Question 4

What did Rossini compose (2 things)

Answer 4

The Barber of Seville; William Tell

Question 5

What did Mussorgsky compose (2 things)

Answer 5

Boris Godunov; Pictures at an Exhibition

Question 6

Stravinsky’s 5 works

Answer 6

The Rite of Spring; Firebird ballet; Petrushka ballet; Scherzo fantastique (Fireworks); Oedipus Rex

Question 7

Who composed Fidelio

Answer 7

Beethoven

Question 8

What did Mozart compose (3 things)

Answer 8

Don Giovanni; The Marriage of Figaro; Cosi Fan Tutte

Question 9

Who composed The Planets

Answer 9

Holst

Question 10

name 4 of wagner’s works

Answer 10

Ring of the Nibelungen cycle; siegfried; the flying dutchman; Lohengrin

Question 11

Who composed The Messiah

Answer 11

Handel

Question 12

Who composed the Choral Symphony No 9

Answer 12

Also ode to joy; Beethoven

Question 13

Copland’s 2 works

Answer 13

Fanfare for the Common Man, and Appalachian Spring Ballet

Question 14

Who composed The Tales of Hoffmann

Answer 14

Offenbach

Question 15

What did Debussy compose (2 things)

Answer 15

Afternoon of a Faun; La Mer

Question 16

What did Gershwin compose (4 things)

Answer 16

Porgy & Bess; Rhapsody in Blue; Swanee; An American in Paris

Question 17

name of unfinished symphony that schubert wrote

Answer 17

No. 8 in B Minor

Question 18

Who composed the Eroica Symphony No 3 in E-flat major?

Answer 18

Beethoven

Question 19

Who composed Peer Gynt?

Answer 19

Grieg

Question 20

Synopsis of Madame Butterfly & 2 main characters

Answer 20

Japanese 15 yo Butterfly marries this naval general Pinkerton and he leaves her for 3 yr with a son and comes back with a new wife (!!!) and butterfly disembowels herself over it o.0

Question 21

Sophocles 2 plays

Answer 21

Oedipus the king; Antigone

Question 22

who was the greek father of tragedy, and what did he write

Answer 22

Aeschylus; wrote the Oresteia Trilogy

Question 23

O’Neill’s 3 biggest play titles

Answer 23

The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Emperor Jones

Question 24

Who wrote waiting for godot

Answer 24

beckett

Question 25

Euripides 2 most famous plays

Answer 25

Madea; Bacchae

Question 26

Henrik Ibsen 3 plays

Answer 26

A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler; The Wild Duck

Question 27

Chekhov's 4 most famous plays

Answer 27

The Cherry Orchard; The Seagull; Three Sisters; and Uncle Vanya.

Question 28

Shakespeare's lesser-known play

Answer 28

antony & cleopatra

Question 29

who wrote the surprise symphony??

Answer 29

Haydn oml

Question 30

composer of Brandenburg concertos

Answer 30

Bach

Question 31

who wrote symphony #41, the Jupiter symphony

Answer 31

Mozart

Question 32

who wrote the french anthem, and what is it called

Answer 32

de Lisle; La Marseilles

Question 33

who wrote the blue danube

Answer 33

strauss

Question 34

who wrote that dang dixie song that used to be your dang lullaby, and what was it used for

Answer 34

Emmet; it was the confederate anthem

Question 35

who wrote oh susanna

Answer 35

Foster

Question 36

who wrote the battle hymn of the republic, and what is its telling verses

Answer 36

Howe; it's the "glory, glory halleluuuuujahhhh" song that mrs cook thinks we're idiots for not knowing lmao

Question 37

who wrote America, the Beautiful

Answer 37

Bates

Question 38

who wrote the 1812 Overture

Answer 38

Tchaikovsky

Question 39

3 of Prokofiev's musical numbers

Answer 39

Romeo & Juliet; Peter and the Wolf; The Love for Three Oranges

Question 40

who wrote Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

Answer 40

Dvorak

Question 41

Name 2 of Elgar’s compositions

Answer 41

Pomp & circumstance, enigma variations

Question 42

rodgers & Hammerstein 5 plays

Answer 42

Oklahoma!, South Pacific, Sound of Music, The King & I, Cinderella

Question 43

who wrote West Side Story

Answer 43

Bernstein & Sondheim

Question 44

who wrote the Well-Tempered Klavier

Answer 44

bach

Question 45

gilbert & sullivan 3 plays

Answer 45

the pirates of penzance; HMS pinafore; The Gondoliers (a "savoy," comic opera)

Question 46

Britten's 3 works

Answer 46

Turn of the screw; that one kid's orchestra book; and Death in Venice

Question 47

who wrote bolero

Answer 47

ravel

Question 48

WHO WROTE 4'33'' FOR PIANO

Answer 48

CAGE

Question 49

who wrote the piano concerto No 2 & 3, characterized by having such a gigantic freaking hand span to reach his notes

Answer 49

rachmaninoff

Question 50

who wrote symphony no 5 in C minor

Answer 50

beethoven (remember mama's shirt, "this is my fifth")

Question 51

who wrote toccata & fugue in D minor, that organ song that is on the halloween playlists

Answer 51

Bach

Question 52

who wrote canon in D

Answer 52

pachelbel

Question 53

who wrote Carmina Burana: O Fortuna

Answer 53

Orff

Question 54

who wrote the bartered bride

Answer 54

smetana

Question 55

who wrote the flight of the bumblebee piece

Answer 55

korsakov

Question 56

Name 2 of schumann's pieces

Answer 56

Traumerei; spring symphony

Question 57

name this instrument, for which Mozart wrote variations on the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star," as well as a "Rondo Alla Turca.

Answer 57

pianofortes

Question 58

who wrote the play "a raisin in the sun"

Answer 58

Hansberry

Question 59

who wrote Pygmalion/My Fair Lady

Answer 59

Shaw

Question 60

who composed the 6th pastoral symphony

Answer 60

beethoven

Question 61

who wrote the 6th pathetique symphony

Answer 61

tchaikovsky

Question 62

who wrote the Hungarian rhapsody

Answer 62

Liszt

Question 63

who composed the chorales

Answer 63

bach

Question 64

name 2 of mahler's pieces

Answer 64

the song of the earth; symphony of a thousand

Question 65

name 2 of Brahms's pieces

Answer 65

A German Requiem; Lullabies

Question 66

name this Italian playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author

Answer 66

pirandello

Question 67

who wrote the wedding march

Answer 67

Mendelssohn

Question 68

who wrote duke bluebeard's castle

Answer 68

bartok

Question 69

where is bartok from

Answer 69

hungary

Question 70

where is liszt from

Answer 70

Austria-Hungary (Hungary)

Question 71

who wrote fur elise you damn idiot

Answer 71

BEETHOVEN not bach tf

Question 72

who wrote the 7th leningrad symphony

Answer 72

shostakovich

Question 73

what did shostakovich write

Answer 73

the 7th leningrad symphony

Question 74

Name 1 work(s) by Berlioz

Answer 74

Symphonie Fantastique

Question 75

Who wrote Carnival of Animals?

Answer 75

Saint-Saens

Question 76

Who wrote the star-spangled banner?

Answer 76

Key

Question 77

who wrote Salome (the opera)?

Answer 77

Strauss

Question 78

who wrote amazing grace?

Answer 78

Newton

Question 79

webber wrote the music to go with which dude's lyrics

Answer 79

rice

Question 80

who is the march king

Answer 80

sousa