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It's a Classic!
Test your knowledge of Classical Composers and their Works.
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Created By:
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#1 Which ballet score was not composed by Tchaikovsky?
Sleeping Beauty
Swan Lake
Peter and the Wolf
Nutcracker Suite
#2 Carl Orff composed "Carmina Burana", a scenic cantata, between 1935 and 1936.
True
False
#3 Which composer wrote the music for "Peer Gynt"?
Fryderyk Chopin
Maurice Ravel
Edvard Grieg
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#4 Gustav Holst is famous for his orchestral work, "The Planets". What two planets are not in the Suite?
Earth and Venus
Saturn and Neptune
Mercury and Mars
Earth and Pluto
#5 Who composed "The Flight of the Bumblebee"?
Sergei Prokofiev
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Antonin Dvorak
#6 Richard Wagner wrote many operas during his life and considered himself as "the most German of men". What opera is one of his most famous pieces, "Ride of the Valkyries", from?
Tannhäuser
Lohengrin
Die Walküre
Tristan und Isolde
#7 Who composed "Also Sprach Zarathustra" op. 30 that Stanley Kubrick used as the opening music in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
Eduard Strauss
Richard Strauss
Johann Sebastian Strauss
Josef Strauss
#8 Which piece was composed by Maurice Ravel?
Brandenburg Concerto
La Traviata
Boléro
Petrouchka
Carnival of the Animals
#9 Louis Hector Berlioz composed "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune".
True
False
#10 Who composed "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"?
Franz Schubert
George Frideric Handel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frédéric Chopin
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