What is a clavichord? | Musical instrument |
Which is the highest female singing voice? | Soprano |
Who wrote ‘Winter’ from the classical music work ‘The Four Seasons’? | Vivaldi |
Which voice in singing is between a tenor and a soprano? | Alto |
About which composer was the 1984 film Amadeus? | Mozart |
La Boheme, The Marriage of Figaro, Rigoletto and Aida are all examples of what? | Operas |
Rodrigo’s Concerto d’Aranjuez is played on which instrument? | Guitar |
Which piece of music by Wagner was used as the theme for the film ‘Apocalypse Now’? | Ride of the Valkyries |
What are the surnames of the three tenors? | Pavarotti, Carreras, Domingo |
Which composer was able to write in spite of becoming almost totally deaf in later life? | Ludwig van Beethoven |
About which romantic pair did Berlioz write a symphony? | Romeo and Juliet |
What’s the term for a composition for four instruments? | Quartet |
With which instrument was Jacqueline Du Pré associated? / ¿Con qué instrumento musical se asocia Jacqueline Du Pré? | (Violon) Cello / Violoncelo |
Who composed ‘Clair De Lune’? | Claude Debussy |
In which Italian town are Stradivarius violins made? / ¿En qué ciudad se hacen los violines ‘Stradivarius’? | Cremona |
Who was the husband of famous cellist Jacqueline du Pre? | Daniel Barenboim |
Whose musical works were classified by Kochel numbers? | Mozart |
Which classical violinist, said to have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his remarkable talent, composed the 24 Caprices for solo violin? | Niccolo Paganini |
What’s the name of the bass tuba that wraps itself around the player’s body? | Sousaphone |
With which musical instrument do we associate Sir Yehudi Menuhin? | Violin |
To which family of musical instruments does the bassoon belong? / fagot | Woodwind |
In which city was Ludwig van Beethoven born on 16th December 1770? | Bonn, Germany |
In which century was Chopin born? | 19th |
The Hallelujah Chorus comes from which work, often performed at Christmas? | Handel’s ‘The Messiah’ |
What nationality was composer Rimsky-Korsakov? | Russian |
In classical music a piano trio is a chamber ensemble consisting of a piano, a violin and which other musical instrument? | Cello |
Which classical composers ‘Ode to Joy’ is the anthem of the European Union? | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Chopin wrote music almost exclusively for which instrument? | Piano |
Who wrote the choral work The Messiah? Händel, Haydn or Holst? | Händel |
Which composer’s 6th Symphony is known as the ‘Pathétique’? | Tchaikovsky |
What type of work by Beethoven has the title ‘Moonlight’? | Sonata |