Pleasantly surprised by how many of these I knew. I guessed slept through less of music class than I thought. Especially proud that I got Rimsky-Korsakov. What an awesome name.
I hadn't heard of Years of Pilgrimage, so I was going through every 19th and 20th century composer I could think of. Liszt didn't come to mind, damn it!
"Classic Composers" doesn't mean anything; the title is correct. "Classical music", and by extension "Classical Composers", are general terms that encompass all periods of western art music, from medieval to contemporary. If the quiz just featured Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven etc. it would need to be called "Composers from the Classical Period."
What is it with people always saying "You forgot about Answer X!" or "No Answer Y?" The quizzes pick a category and come up with enough questions to fill out the quiz. They don't have to pick everyone you would pick. All that matters is whether the questions are fair. As one with a very basic working knowledge of classical, baroque, etc., I thought this was very fair. I got 12, and the only name I don't recognize is Sibelius.
You ll love it less when you see it for the 7385416th time... especially when a lot of those instances are not nitpicks but they have legit points,
(though there are a lot of nitpicks outthere. Like when somebody is not a spouse anymore but an ex... in that case it is a nitpick because you know what was meant. But when someone corrects the statement that a sea anemone is a plant by pointing out it is in fact an animal, that is not nitpicking, but a legit remark/correction.)
Handel became British and changed (the spelling of) his name, anglicizing it (from Georg Friederich Händel) to George Frideric Handel. When he wrote the Messiah, his name was Handel, not Händel. The nit was incorrectly picked.
This quiz contains many popular composers but it gets less popular as it goes. I think Franz Joseph Haydn is more popular than 25% of the people on this quiz, so if you have room and time, it would be helpful to many others if you add him.
Rossini, who probably did more instantly recognizable pieces than anyone else on the list. Even if his name's not as famous as Beethoven and the like, his music most certainly is. Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes used him to great effect more than once too ;)
Let's assume two things and put an end to the madness. 1) In mainstream lingo, "classical" covers a few centuries of western art music. 2) If you want everyone to know that you know about music history and cutoff dates, pat on the head, you're brilliant. Now go home.
No I agree with Deadpool246, using 'classical' to describe a multiplicity of forms from pre-renaissance to the modern day is so inclusive as to make the term meaningless.
Ah yes....always the complaints about the term "classical music." Fact is- most people know what is meant when it is used in a general way. Students of music learn early on about the more specific terms for the different style periods. Music majors are required to perform music from these eras. Competitions and auditions often require this as well. (Some still refer to everything from 1900 on as "modern" or even "contemporary!") To break down the music of the past 122 years into appropriate "labels" would be virtually impossible. To define classical music as a distinction from "popular" is also unsatisfactory, as so much of it is, in fact, extremely popular.
Composers creating music for students' lesson books often include works which they write in "classical" style to prepare them for Clementi sonatinas and the more difficult works of Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven. A great deal of contemporary music is clearly "romantic" in style.
(though there are a lot of nitpicks outthere. Like when somebody is not a spouse anymore but an ex... in that case it is a nitpick because you know what was meant. But when someone corrects the statement that a sea anemone is a plant by pointing out it is in fact an animal, that is not nitpicking, but a legit remark/correction.)
Composers creating music for students' lesson books often include works which they write in "classical" style to prepare them for Clementi sonatinas and the more difficult works of Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven. A great deal of contemporary music is clearly "romantic" in style.
Bottom line is....just get over it and enjoy!