Each week BBC Music Magazine offers a special classically themed quiz, created by our resident quizmaster and font of all things knowledge, Jeremy Pound. Test your classical expertise with this week’s quiz below.
BBC Music Magazine Quiz: Thursday 24 October 2024
1. The Fourth Symphony, premiered in 1881, is often referred to as “Romantic”?
2. Mozart was not paid for his Flute Concerto in D major, K314, because he only adapted a concerto written for any instrument.
3. Who wrote the opera Cadmus and Hermione, which premiered in Paris on April 27, 1673 and was based on the story of Ovid’s Metamorphoses?
4. Although it is often performed on the guitar, “Asturias (Leyenda)”, originally written for the piano, was written in 1892. Who is the Spanish composer? Which group quoted this quote in “Spanish Caravan”?
5. A broken lute and a Lutheran hymnbook are one of the symbols of a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein. What is the photo above?
6. Last November 30th marked the 400th anniversary of the death of the mercurial British composer, whose work as organist at Chichester Cathedral (below) was beset by a series of scandals.
Photo: Getty Images – Getty Images
7. Originally brought together by conductor Harry Christophers, which vocal group performed its first concert in 1979?
8. Name the following music competition in which a woman was the first winner in history. a) Sofya Gulyak (2009). b) Ayako Uehara (2002). c) Anna Markland (1982)?
9. The cephalophone, which includes the “cello overcoat in C” and the “chromatic tab in B,” was an imaginary group of “unplayable” instruments dreamed up by which composer?
10. In 1972, Nino Rota composed the main title for the film The Godfather based on the opening melody of which composer’s Symphony No. 1?
Scroll down to find the answers to this week’s quiz.
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Here are the answers to this week’s BBC Music Magazine quiz.
How did you score…? First, the composers who answer question 1 are:
And here’s your answer…
1. Anton Bruckner
2. Oboe
3. Jean-Baptiste Lully
4. Isaac Albeniz
5. Ambassador
6. Thomas Weelkes
7. Sixteen people
8. a) Leeds International Piano Competition. b) Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. c) BBC Young Musician of the Year
9. Erik Satie
10. Jean Sibelius
