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The Symphony Quiz - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 49 times
- The average score is 12 of 20
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Which composer is often referred to as the "Father of the Symphony" (as we intend it nowadays)? | Franz Joseph Haydn | 100%
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| And how many numbered symphonies did their "father" write? | 104 | 94%
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| Which symphony did Beethoven originally dedicate to Napoleon, but later renamed it when the frenchman crowned himself as emperor? | 3rd | 88%
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| Who composed but did not complete his 8th symphony, which is now unanimously known as the "Unfinished" | Franz Schubert | 88%
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| Three Mozart symphonies are known by the name of a city. Which are those cities? | Paris, Linz, Prague | 88%
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| Who wrote the text of the famous "Ode to Joy", the 4th movement of Beethoven's Ninth? | Friedrich Schiller | 81%
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| What symphonic work did Mahler compose after finishing his 8th, but didn't call it a symphony in fear of the infamous "Curse of the Ninth"? | Das Lied von der Erde | 75%
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| What are the titles of the two symphonies Liszt composed? | "Faust" and "Dante" | 69%
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| If I talk about "Espansiva", "Semplice" and "The Inextinguishable", to whose symphonies am I referring to? | Carl Nielsen | 56%
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| Which of the following is NOT a movement from Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" | Dance of the Skeletons | 56%
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| What keyboard instruments feature in Saint-Saëns' 3rd Symphony? | Organ and piano | 56%
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| Which of Brahms' symphonies ends with a notorious and ominous Passacaglia? | 4th | 44%
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| Antonín Dvořák's "From the New World" is his 9th symphony, but it was published as his... | 5th | 44%
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| Which of Sibelius' symphonies is known for his original sparse finale? | 5th | 44%
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| Which one of these composers has NEVER written a symphony with choir and/or singers | Anton Bruckner | 38%
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| In Shostakovich's 7th Symphony "Leningrad", the "Nazi invasion theme" has quotation of: | An aria from Lehár's "The Merry Widow" | 31%
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| And who HASN'T ever composed a symphony at all? | Béla Bartók | 31%
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| In Luciano Berio's "Sinfonia", which of these works are played over a nearly exact version of Mahler 2's scherzo? | Ravel's "La Valse", Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" | 25%
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| Which of these symphonies features an electric guitar and an electric bass? | Schnittke's 1st | 25%
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| How many symphonies did Allan Pettersson (the saddest man of whole Sweden) write? | 17 | 19%
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