Classical Music Quiz. How much do you know about it?
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Question 1 of 10
After he died in 1827, what composer's skull shattered during an autopsy to figure out why he was deaf?
Question 2 of 10
Written in 1878 by Joseph Parry to a libretto by Richard Davies, an opera called Blodwen includes such song as Yn Wyneb Y Nef, and was the first ever opera written in what language?
Question 3 of 10
What eccentric composer collected unused umbrellas, wore his 12 identical gray velvet suits in turn until they wore out, created the Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor ... and only ate food that was white?
Question 4 of 10
What Czech composer went to the New World and served from 1892-95 as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City?
Question 5 of 10
He started composing as a child, but on December 5, 1791, he started decomposing in a communal grave just outside the city walls of Vienna. Who?
Question 6 of 10
Sometimes played by metal bands, what Green Hornet theme is also the most famous part of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan"?
Question 7 of 10
Joseph Bertolozzi's Tower Music sampled some 2000 sounds to turn what actual 19th-century tower into a giant percussion instrument?
Question 8 of 10
In 1944, Igor Stravinsky arranged what song using a major minor seventh chord, leading to a Boston police warning that threatened a $100 fine?
Question 9 of 10
Although his work doesn't make babies smarter, his Magic Flute seems to make microbes eat sewage sludge faster. Who?
Question 10 of 10
What sad-sounding name is shared by Beethoven's eighth piano sonata and by Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony?
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