Are You a Classical Music Maestro?

#10 Week 3

Author

Sigrun Sørumgård
January 14, 2025

Think you know your Bach from your Beethoven? See if you have what it takes to conduct your way to the top score!

  1. Which composer is famous for his operas "La Bohème" and "Madama Butterfly"?

  2. Which composer is known as the "Father of the Symphony"?

  3. Who composed the ballet "The Nutcracker"?

  4. Which symphony by Beethoven is often called the "Fate Symphony"?

  5. In which city did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart spend most of his career?

  6. The Vienna New Year concert with the Vienna Philharmonics plays mostly music composed by which composer?

  7. From Apocalypse Now to Minions, Ride of the Valkyries has soundtracked many dramatic movie moments. Who composed it?

  8. Who composed the famous work Ave Maria?

  9. Which composer wrote the opera "The Magic Flute"?

  10. What does the term "allegro" indicate in music?

The Wonder Wall

  • Norwegian composer and pianist Edvard Grieg always kept a frog doll made from cloth in his pocket, and every time he performed he would pat the frog on the head for good luck.

  • Beethoven conducted the premiere of his 9th Symphony without hearing a single note.

  • During the first London performance of Handel’s Messiah, King George II stood up as soon as the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ kicked in - after that, it became traditional for audiences to stand for this famous chorus.

Yesterday´s Answers

  1. IBM's Deep Blue did something that no machine had done before. In May of 1997, it became the first computer system to defeat a reigning world chess champion in a match under standard tournament controls.

  2. Kentucky

  3. Brooke Shields

  4. Sapphire. The name sapphire is derived from the Latin word sapphirus, itself from the Greek word sappheiros (σάπφειρος), which referred to lapis lazuli. It is typically blue, but natural "fancy" sapphires also occur in yellow, purple, orange, and green colors; "parti sapphires" show two or more colors.

  5. Stevie Wonder

  6. Cardiff City F.C.

  7. The Blue Mosque is located in Istanbul, Turkey, specifically in the Sultanahmet district.

  8. Roquefort

  9. Dr. Seuss

  10. Sudan. The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region. It begins at Lake Victoria and flows through Uganda and South Sudan. The Blue Nile begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and flows into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet at the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.