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Classical Music Era (i.e. music without folk origins)
Contributed by: Blake
  • 1. Who is considered the 'Father of Symphony'?
A) Johann Sebastian Bach
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C) Ludwig van Beethoven
D) Joseph Haydn
  • 2. Which composer is known for writing 'The Four Seasons'?
A) Franz Joseph Haydn
B) Johann Pachelbel
C) Antonio Vivaldi
D) George Frideric Handel
  • 3. Who composed the 'Moonlight Sonata'?
A) Ludwig van Beethoven
B) Johannes Brahms
C) Frederic Chopin
D) Felix Mendelssohn
  • 4. Which composer wrote 'The Magic Flute' opera?
A) Georges Bizet
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C) Richard Wagner
D) Giuseppe Verdi
  • 5. What nationality was composer Franz Schubert?
A) Italian
B) Russian
C) Austrian
D) German
  • 6. Who composed the 'Brandenburg Concertos'?
A) Johann Sebastian Bach
B) Georg Philipp Telemann
C) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
D) Antonio Salieri
  • 7. Which composer is known for his 'Hallelujah Chorus'?
A) Tomaso Albinoni
B) Henry Purcell
C) George Frideric Handel
D) Giacomo Puccini
  • 8. Who composed 'Clair de Lune'?
A) Erik Satie
B) Camille Saint-Saëns
C) Maurice Ravel
D) Claude Debussy
  • 9. Which composer is known for composing 'Carmen'?
A) Jacques Offenbach
B) Richard Wagner
C) Georges Bizet
D) Giuseppe Verdi
  • 10. Who composed 'The Barber of Seville'?
A) Richard Strauss
B) Giuseppe Verdi
C) Gioachino Rossini
D) Giacomo Puccini
  • 11. Which composer is known for his 'Symphonie Fantastique'?
A) Dmitri Shostakovich
B) Igor Stravinsky
C) Hector Berlioz
D) Gustav Mahler
  • 12. Who composed 'Ride of the Valkyries'?
A) Richard Wagner
B) Johann Strauss II
C) Giuseppe Verdi
D) Gioachino Rossini
  • 13. Who composed the 'Rhapsody in Blue'?
A) Aaron Copland
B) George Gershwin
C) Leonard Bernstein
D) John Williams
  • 14. Who composed 'The Nutcracker' ballet?
A) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
B) Igor Stravinsky
C) Dmitri Shostakovich
D) Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • 15. Which composer is known for his 'Carnival of the Animals' suite?
A) Erik Satie
B) Gabriel Fauré
C) Maurice Ravel
D) Camille Saint-Saëns
  • 16. Who composed 'La Traviata'?
A) Giuseppe Verdi
B) Gaetano Donizetti
C) Gioachino Rossini
D) Vincenzo Bellini
  • 17. Which composer is known for 'The Planets' suite?
A) Benjamin Britten
B) Edward Elgar
C) Ralph Vaughan Williams
D) Gustav Holst
  • 18. Which composer is known for his 'Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor'?
A) Igor Stravinsky
B) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
C) Sergei Rachmaninoff
D) Dmitri Shostakovich
  • 19. Which composer is known for his 'Symphonie Espagnole'?
A) Georges Bizet
B) Édouard Lalo
C) Emmanuel Chabrier
D) César Franck
  • 20. Who composed the 'Symphony No. 9' known as the 'New World Symphony'?
A) Johannes Brahms
B) Anton Bruckner
C) Franz Schubert
D) Antonín Dvořák
  • 21. Which composer is known for his 'Mazurkas' and 'Polonaises'?
A) Frédéric Chopin
B) Franz Liszt
C) Robert Schumann
D) Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • 22. Who composed 'Boléro'?
A) Gabriel Fauré
B) Erik Satie
C) Maurice Ravel
D) Claude Debussy
  • 23. Which composer wrote 'Adagio for Strings'?
A) John Williams
B) Aaron Copland
C) Samuel Barber
D) Leonard Bernstein
  • 24. Which composer is known for 'Scheherazade'?
A) Igor Stravinsky
B) Modest Mussorgsky
C) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
D) Alexander Borodin
  • 25. Who composed 'Firebird Suite'?
A) Sergei Prokofiev
B) Igor Stravinsky
C) Dmitri Shostakovich
D) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • 26. Latvian composer known for 'Vltava (The Moldau)'?
A) Antonín Dvořák
B) Gustav Mahler
C) Leoš Janáček
D) Bedřich Smetana
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