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Classical music trivia questions and answers

Put your knowledge to the test with these classical music trivia questions and answers.

Are you a classical music lover? Do you know your Brahms from your Bach? Take our classical music trivia quiz and find out just how much you know!

Question 1
The fourth movement of which composer’s ninth symphony sets to music Friedrich Schiller’s poem “Ode to Joy?
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Ludwig van Beethoven.
Question 2
Which composer’s sixth and final symphony is also known as the “Pathétique Symphony”?
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Question 3
Whose “Water Music” premiered on July 17, 1717?
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George Frideric Handel.
Question 4
What is the popular name for Franz Schubert’s “Piano Quintet in A Major”?
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The Trout Quintet.
Question 5
What nationality was the composer Franz Joseph Haydn?
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Austrian.
Question 6
In Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”, which planet is the “Bringer of Old Age”?
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Saturn.
Question 7
Who composed the comic opera “The Marriage of Figaro” in 1876?
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Question 8
“Das Rheinegold” (The Rhinegold) and “Die Walküre” (The Valkyrie) are two components of which cycle of epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner?
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Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), commonly known as “The Ring Cycle”.
Question 9
Which Russian composer’s works include “Renard”, “The Soldier’s Tale” and “The Rite of Spring”?
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Igor Stravinsky.
Question 10
Which Polish composer, born in 1810 and noted for his piano works, had a love affair with the novelist Amantine Dupin, better known by her pen name of George Sand?
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Frederic Chopin.
Question 11
Which English composer’s compositions include the “Enigma Variations” and the “Pomp and Circumstances Marches”?
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Edward Elgar.
Question 12
The astronaut Neil Armstrong took a tape recording of which piece of music by Antonín Dvořák with him on the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission?
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The New World Symphony.
Question 13
Which composer started suffering hearing problems from about the age of 26 and was almost completely deaf by the age of 44?
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Ludwig van Beethoven.
Question 14
Who composed the operas “Rigoletto”, “Il trovatore” and “La traviata”?
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Giuseppe Verdi.
Question 15
“The Three Tenors” was an operatic singing group from the 1990s and early 2000s, comprised of which three famous tenors?
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Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti.
Question 16
Which movement from the final act of Aram Khachaturian’s 1942 opera “Gayane” is his most widely known and popular work?
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Sabre Dance.
Question 17
Which opera by Camille Saint-Saëns is based on a Biblical tale from the Book of Judges in the Old Testament?
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Samson and Delilah.
Question 18
Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin were the members of which group of Russian composers, also known as the “Mighty Handful”?
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The Five.
Question 19
Which text from the final couplet of the hymn “Dies irae” is often included in musical settings of the Requiem Mass, including by Andrew Lloyd-Webber in his “Requiem”, made famous by Sarah Brightman?
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Pie Jesu.
Question 20
Who composed the operas “Madame Butterfly” and “Tosca”?
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Giacomo Puccini.

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