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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) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
B) Joseph Haydn
C) Ludwig van Beethoven
D) Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 2. Which composer is known for writing 'The Four Seasons'?
A) Franz Joseph Haydn
B) George Frideric Handel
C) Antonio Vivaldi
D) Johann Pachelbel
  • 3. Who composed the 'Moonlight Sonata'?
A) Ludwig van Beethoven
B) Johannes Brahms
C) Felix Mendelssohn
D) Frederic Chopin
  • 4. Which composer wrote 'The Magic Flute' opera?
A) Richard Wagner
B) Giuseppe Verdi
C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D) Georges Bizet
  • 5. What nationality was composer Franz Schubert?
A) German
B) Russian
C) Italian
D) Austrian
  • 6. Who composed the 'Brandenburg Concertos'?
A) Antonio Salieri
B) Georg Philipp Telemann
C) Johann Sebastian Bach
D) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • 7. Which composer is known for his 'Hallelujah Chorus'?
A) George Frideric Handel
B) Henry Purcell
C) Giacomo Puccini
D) Tomaso Albinoni
  • 8. Who composed 'Clair de Lune'?
A) Camille Saint-Saëns
B) Claude Debussy
C) Maurice Ravel
D) Erik Satie
  • 9. Which composer is known for composing 'Carmen'?
A) Giuseppe Verdi
B) Richard Wagner
C) Jacques Offenbach
D) Georges Bizet
  • 10. Who composed 'The Barber of Seville'?
A) Gioachino Rossini
B) Giuseppe Verdi
C) Richard Strauss
D) Giacomo Puccini
  • 11. Which composer is known for his 'Symphonie Fantastique'?
A) Dmitri Shostakovich
B) Gustav Mahler
C) Hector Berlioz
D) Igor Stravinsky
  • 12. Who composed 'Ride of the Valkyries'?
A) Johann Strauss II
B) Richard Wagner
C) Giuseppe Verdi
D) Gioachino Rossini
  • 13. Who composed the 'Rhapsody in Blue'?
A) George Gershwin
B) John Williams
C) Aaron Copland
D) Leonard Bernstein
  • 14. Who composed 'The Nutcracker' ballet?
A) Igor Stravinsky
B) Dmitri Shostakovich
C) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
D) Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • 15. Which composer is known for his 'Carnival of the Animals' suite?
A) Gabriel Fauré
B) Maurice Ravel
C) Camille Saint-Saëns
D) Erik Satie
  • 16. Who composed 'La Traviata'?
A) Vincenzo Bellini
B) Giuseppe Verdi
C) Gioachino Rossini
D) Gaetano Donizetti
  • 17. Which composer is known for 'The Planets' suite?
A) Ralph Vaughan Williams
B) Benjamin Britten
C) Edward Elgar
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) Dmitri Shostakovich
D) Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • 19. Which composer is known for his 'Symphonie Espagnole'?
A) Édouard Lalo
B) César Franck
C) Emmanuel Chabrier
D) Georges Bizet
  • 20. Who composed the 'Symphony No. 9' known as the 'New World Symphony'?
A) Antonín Dvořák
B) Anton Bruckner
C) Johannes Brahms
D) Franz Schubert
  • 21. Which composer is known for his 'Mazurkas' and 'Polonaises'?
A) Frédéric Chopin
B) Sergei Rachmaninoff
C) Franz Liszt
D) Robert Schumann
  • 22. Who composed 'Boléro'?
A) Claude Debussy
B) Maurice Ravel
C) Gabriel Fauré
D) Erik Satie
  • 23. Which composer wrote 'Adagio for Strings'?
A) Aaron Copland
B) John Williams
C) Samuel Barber
D) Leonard Bernstein
  • 24. Which composer is known for 'Scheherazade'?
A) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
B) Alexander Borodin
C) Igor Stravinsky
D) Modest Mussorgsky
  • 25. Who composed 'Firebird Suite'?
A) Dmitri Shostakovich
B) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
C) Sergei Prokofiev
D) Igor Stravinsky
  • 26. Latvian composer known for 'Vltava (The Moldau)'?
A) Gustav Mahler
B) Antonín Dvořák
C) Leoš Janáček
D) Bedřich Smetana
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