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The String Quartet Quiz
Keep quartettin' through the ages!
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Last updated: July 1, 2024
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1. What is the most common line-up of a string quartet?
2 violins, 2 cellos
2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello
2 violins, 2 violas
1 violin, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 double bass
2. Which composer is known as "The Father of the String Quartet"?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Georg Friedrich Händel
Franz Joseph Haydn
Luigi Boccherini
3. Who composed the "Dissonance" Quartet, an epithet coming from its very unusual (at the time) harmonies in the opening section?
Felix Mendelssohn
Franz Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Carl Stamitz
4. Who composed the "Quatuor Scientifique" (Scientific Quartet), an amazing display of fugal writing?
Anton Reicha
Antonio Salieri
Franz Joseph Haydn
Georges Onslow
5. To whom are dedicated Beethoven's quartets 7 to 9 op. 59?
Rodolphe Kreutzer
Count Andreas Razumovsky
Emperor Francis I of Austria
Franz Joseph Haydn
6. Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" is the greatest music piece ever written (facts!)... And it was originally intended to be the finale of which of Ludwig's quartets?
no. 16
no. 14
no. 13
no. 10
7. Who composed the "Death and the Maiden" Quartet?
Robert Schumann
Franz Schubert
Johann Strauss I
Fanny Mendelssohn
8. Which of the following statements is true about Brahms' string quartets?
They went lost after a house fire
Brahms never composed a string quartet
They are all in minor keys
Brahms struggled until his fourties before completing his first quartets
9. The lively "American Quartet" (no.12) was written by:
Igor Stravinsky
Antonín Dvořák
Henry Cowell
William Grant Still
10. Which of these composer did NOT compose or publish any string quartet?
Gustav Mahler
Giuseppe Verdi
Anton Bruckner
Piotr Tchaikovsky
11. In which key is Ravel's string quartet written?
D minor
F Major
G minor
E Major
12. Leoš Janáček's 2 string quartets are known by the names of
"The Beginning of a Novel" and "Destiny"
"A Czech Wedding" and "From my Childhood"
"War and Peace" and "Taras Bulba"
"Kreutzer Sonata" and "Intimate Letters"
13. What is peculiar about Schönberg's Quartet no. 2?
It has a part for a soprano singer
The second violin plays only in the last movement
It is meant to be played only on the radio
It's the first ever dodecaphonic piece
14. Which Bartók quartet has a movement in which the instruments play only pizzicato?
no. 1
no. 4
no. 6
no. 3
15. How many string quartets feature in Shostakovich's output in the genre?
25
15
30
20
16. Many of Alois Hába's string quartets can be described as examples of:
Stochastic music
Minimalism
Microtonal music
Spectral music
17. Whose efforts in the string quartet paid off twice in the form of a Pulitzer Price for Music?
Charles Wuorinen
John Cage
Elliott Carter
Samuel Barber
18. Karlheinz Stockhausen composed a string quartet in which the musicians are meant to:
play aboard of 4 helicopters
destroy their instruments at the end of the performance
play around the audience walking in circle
play hanging upside down
19. Who composed the string quartet "Black Angels" for electric string quartet, a lament for the ongoing Vietnam War?
Arvo Pärt
György Ligeti
George Crumb
Steve Reich
20. Morton Feldman is known for his lengthy compositions. But how much time does it take to perform his 2nd String Quartet?
7 hours
2 hours and 40 minutes
3 hours
5 and a half hours
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