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Classical Music Quiz: Bravo, Maestro

By Rondilo
Classical Music Quiz: Bravo, Maestro

9 questions on composers from the Baroque to the 20th century, their famous pieces and their surprises.

Questions
9
Length
About 5 min
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  1. Which composer kept writing music after losing nearly all his hearing?
  2. Vivaldi's The Four Seasons features which solo instrument?
  3. On which river was Handel’s Water Music played from boats?
  4. Put these composers in order of birth, earliest first.
  5. What makes Ravel's Boléro unusual?
  6. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. Roughly how many did Haydn write?
  7. This musician lived into the early days of photography. Which composer is shown here?
  8. Clara Schumann was famous in her own lifetime mainly as what?
  9. What do the musicians play in John Cage's piece 4′33″?

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