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Interesting Facts About Composers
This quiz has interesting facts about different composers.
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Quiz ID: #12536
Category:
Music
Submitted By:
tiger_lnik
Question #1
What age was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he started to compose music?
10
5
14
23
Question #2
Who was the first composer in history to be photographed?
Edvard Grieg
Johann Sebastian Bach
Robert Schumann
Dimitri Kabalevsky
Question #3
Which composer became deaf, but still continued to compose music?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Joseph Haydn
Antonio Vivaldi
John Williams
Question #4
Which composer had a nervous breakdown and eventually got put into an institution in 1916?
Miles Davis
Charles Phillip Emanuel Bach
Duke Ellington
Scott Joplin
Question #5
When he died, which composer was buried next to Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert?
Johannes Brahms
Dimitry Shoshtakovitch
Count Basie
Charles Denee
Question #6
Which composer had an alter ego named "Monsieur Croche"?
Antonio Vivaldi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Claude Debussy
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Question #7
Which composer dropped out of school at 15 and worked as a song plugger for 3 years after that?
John Coltrane
Dizzy Gillespie
Scott Joplin
George Gershwin
Question #8
Which composer went against his family's hope of him becoming a doctor, and instead became a composer?
Johannes Brahms
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Richard Wagner
Igor Stravinsky
Question #9
Which composer entered the University of Halle as a law student only to abandon that and become an organist?
George Frideric Handel
Antonio Vivaldi
Leonard Bernstein
Johann Strauss Jr.
Question #10
What composer married his or her father's student?
Clara Schumann
Camille Saint-Saens
Hector Berlioz
Richard Wagner
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