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Tempo and Character Markings in Classical Music
If the question is answered in points. If there is a partial answer to a two-part points. Total points for a perfect score is 100. Genius level!
Most information about classical musicians will be found, obviously, in a music dictionary. But there are other books that are treasures of musical lore. The answers here are often part of general musical knowledge and are either fact or attributable quotes.
4 Gioacchino Rossini
1 Josef Haydn
Bonus question. Ten points for the name of the pianist-composer whose picture is found at the top of this quiz.
Questions About Classical MusiciansWho said, "Friends flatter me that I have some genius, but Mozart stands far above me."Who said, "In opera there is too much singing?"Georges Bizet once said has wonderful bursts of passion. His passion is brutal, it is true, but that is better than having no passion at all. His music exasperates sometimes, but it never bores." What opera composer was he speaking about?Who said, "Give me a laundry list and I will set it to music?""I have grown accustomed to composing in our or tomorrow I am going to dream there the Name the composer and the composition.What composer wrote about Grieg's music, " What charm [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], what inimitable and rich musical interest, novelty and independence!"What 20th century pianist-conductor-composer said," It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once."What 20th century American composer said this about a Russian pianist-composer? "The prospect of having to sit through one of his extended symphonies or piano concertos, tends, quite frankly, to depress me. All those notes, think I [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and to what end?" Name both composers.What French pianist-composer [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], sending back manuscripts from would-be composers, said ," Do I send you my works to look at?"What composer said, "I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.?"Answers to Quiz
2 Claude Debussy
9 Camille Saint-Saens
10 Edvard Grieg
5 Mendelssohn "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
7 Leonard Bernstein
Information about Classical Composers
3 Giuseppe Verdi
6 Peter Illych Tchaikovsky
8 Aaron Copland about Serge Rachmaninoff
Bonus question. Clara Schumann
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