Composers

Question 1

Nixon in China;
The Death of Klinghoffer
Operas

Answer 1

John Coolidge Adams

Question 2

The Well­ Tempered Klavier (A); Brandenburg Concertos; Goldberg Variations;
Art of Fugue
Father of several other composers,
master of fugue form
(A) includes a prelude and fugue in every major and minor key

Answer 2

Johann Sebastian Bach

Question 3

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (A) Collected Hungarian folk music;
(A) opera

Answer 3

Béla Bartók

Question 4

Fifth Symphony (A);
Ninth Symphony “Choral” (B); Third Symphony “Eroica” (C); Sixth Symphony “Pastoral;” Moonlight Sonata;
Kreutzer Sonata;
Für Elise
(A) “Fate knocking at the door” theme; (B)
setting of Friedrich Schiller’s poem “Ode to Joy;” (C)
originally dedicated to Napoleon

Answer 4

Wolfgang von Beethoven

Question 5

Symphonie fantastique (A); Harold in Italy
(A) includes “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” and “March to the Scaffold”
Symphonie fantastique (A); Harold in Italy
(A) includes “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” and “March to the Scaffold”

Answer 5

Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (A); Harold in Italy

Question 6

Carmen (A);
The Pearl Fishers
(A) opera;
Escamillo, “Toreador Song,” the aria “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle,” which is also known as “Habanera”

Answer 6

Georges Bizet

Question 7

The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Death in Venice
Turn of the Screw

Answer 7

Benjamin Britten

Question 8

Lullaby;
German Requiem;
Academic Festival Overture

Answer 8

Johannes Brahms

Question 9

Minute Waltz;
Revolutionary Étude

Answer 9

Frédéric Chopin

Question 10

Rodeo (A);
Appalachian Spring (B);
Fanfare for the Common Man; Lincoln Portrait
(A) ballet;
includes “Hoe­Down”; (B)
ballet; includes a theme based on the Shuaker hymn “Simple Gifts”

Answer 10

Aaron Copland

Question 11

“Clare de lune;”
La mer;
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Impressionist

Answer 11

Claude Debussy

Question 12

Pomp and Circumstance marches;
Enigma Variations

Answer 12

Edward Elgar

Question 13

HMS Pinafore;
The Pirates of Penzance;
The Mikado
Comic operettas

Answer 13

Gilbert and Sullivan

Question 14

Peer Gynt (A)
(A) includes “In the Hall of the Mountain King,”
“Morning Mood,”
“Solveig’s Song,” and
“Anitra’s Dance”

Answer 14

Edvard Grieg

Question 15

London Symphonies;
Farewell Symphony;
Surprise Symphony
“Father of Symphony”

Answer 15

Joseph Haydn

Question 16

The Planets (A)
Suite including movements “Mars, the Bringer of War,” “Jupiter, the Bringer ofJollity,” and “Venus, the Bringer of Peace”

Answer 16

Gustav Holst

Question 17

Tale of Tsar Saltan (A); Scheherazade
(A) opera; includes “The Flight of the Bumblebee”

Answer 17

Nikolai Rimsky­ Korsakov

Question 18

Hungarian Rhapsodies; Transcendental Études; Mephisto Waltzes

Answer 18

Franz Liszt

Question 19

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (incidental music) (A);
Scottish Symphony; Reformation Symphony
(A) includes a common wedding march

Answer 19

Felix Mendelssohn

Question 20

Symphony of a Thousand; Resurrection Symphony

Answer 20

Gustav Mahler

Question 21

(A); Music for the Royal Fireworks;
Water Music;
Zadok the Priest
(A) oratorio that includes “Hallelujah Chorus”

Answer 21

George Frideric Handel Messiah

Question 22

The Magic Flute (A);
Don Giovanni (B);
“Eine Kleine Nachtmusik;” Jupiter Symphony;
Cosi Fan Tutte;
Requiem
(A) opera;
Queen of the Night, who sings the aria “Der Holle Rache,” Sarastro,
Pamina (B) opera; title playboy is dragged to hell by a statue

Answer 22

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 23

Pictures at an Exhibition (A); Night on Bald Mountain

Member of the Mighty Handful (Mighty Five) (A)
collection including “The Great Gate of Kiev” and “Promenade”

Answer 23

Modest Mussorgsky

Question 24

Peter and the Wolf;
Cinderella;
Romeo and Juliet
*Ballets

Answer 24

Sergei Prokofiev

Question 25

Dido and Aeneas;
The Fairy­ Queen

Answer 25

Henry Purcell

Question 26

Madame Butterfly (A);
La bohème (B);
Tosca;
Turandot
Operas (A)
Cio­Cio San,
Lieutenant Pinkerton,
the aria “Un bel di” (B)
Mimi,
Rodolfo,
the aria “Quand me’n vo,” inspired Rent

Answer 26

Giacomo Puccini

Question 27

Boléro

Answer 27

Maurice Ravel

Question 28

The Barber of Seville (A); William Tell (Guillaume Tell) (B); The Thieving Magpie
Operas; (A)
the namesake barber is Figaro, who sings the aria “Largo al factotum” (B)
includes the aria “Sous immobile” or “stay still”

Answer 28

Gioachino Rossini

Question 29

Carnival of the Animals (A); Danse macabre
(A) includes “The Swan” and “Fossils”

Answer 29

Camille Saint­ Saëns

Question 30

Trout Quintet;
Unfinished Symphony

Answer 30

Franz Schubert

Question 31

Finlandia

Answer 31

Jean Sibelius

Question 32

Also Sprach Zarathustra; Salome;
Rosenkavalier;
Alpine Symphony
*Operas

Answer 32

Richard Strauss

Question 33

The Blue Danube Waltz (On the Beautiful Blue Danube);
Die Fledermaus
“Waltz King”

Answer 33

Johann Strauss the Younger

Question 34

The Rite of Spring;
Petrushka;
The Firebird
Ballets

Answer 34

Igor Stravinsky

Question 35

1812 Overture;
Swan Lake (A);
The Nutcracker (B);
Romeo and Juliet;
Sleeping Beauty;
Eugene Onegin;
Pathetique Symphony
(A) ballet;
Odette, Odile,
Von Rothbart,
Prince Siegfried; (B)
ballet; Rat King (Mouse King), Sugar Plum Fairy,
Clara

Answer 35

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Question 36

Aïda (A); La traviata;
Rigoletto
Operas (A) Aïda (an Ethiopian princess), Radamès, set in Egypt

Answer 36

Giuseppe Verdi

Question 37

The Four Seasons (A)
(A) set of four concerti from The Contest Between Harmony and Invention.
Vivaldi is nicknamed “The Red Priest.”

Answer 37

Antonio Vivaldi

Question 38

Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelungs, or The Ring Cycle) (A)
(A) four operas:
Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods)

Answer 38

Richard Wagner

Question 39

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis;
Sinfonia Antarctica

Answer 39

Ralph Vaughan Williams