Multiple Choice Questions

Which of the following is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini?
  • Marriage of Figaro
  • La Traviata
  • Madame Butterfly
  • Samson and Delilah
Which form of musical articulation can you NOT play on a piano?
  • Staccato
  • Legato
  • Pizzicato
  • Sforzando
What is Mozart’s full name?
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Ludwig van Mozart
  • Johann Sebastian Mozart
  • John Mozart
What is Symphony No. 9 in E minor by Antonín Dvořák more commonly known as?
  • New World Symphony
  • Pastoral Symphony
  • Fantasia Sinfonica
  • Rhenish Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 in which German city?
  • Berlin
  • Dresden
  • Nuremberg
  • Bonn
Richard Wagner’s ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ (Ritt der Walküren) is played at the beginning of Act III of which of the operas in the Der Ring des Nibelungen?
  • Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)
  • Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
  • Siegfried
  • Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)
Who composed the famous ‘Four Seasons’?
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Antonio Vivaldi
The composers Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Strauss were all born in which country?
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
  • Russia
Which Russian composer wrote the score for ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet?
  • Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Anton Rubinstein
  • Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Frederic Chopin was born in which country?
  • France
  • Germany
  • Poland
  • Italy
Who composed the ‘Brandenburg Concertos’ in around 1721?
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Franz Schubert
Which famous Italian family produced unequaled stringed instruments, the sound of which cannot be reproduced today?
  • Verdi
  • Paganini
  • Stradivari
  • Rhonheimer
What is the name for the lowest singing voice in opera?
  • Soprano
  • Mezzo
  • Bass
  • Contralto
‘La Traviata’ is an opera in which language?
  • Italian
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
If a musical note is preceded by a sharp (#), how is the note modified?
  • The pitch is lowered by a semitone
  • The note is played an octave lower
  • The pitch is raised by a semitone
  • The note is played an octave higher
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