Trivia Quiz on 20th Century Classical Music

1. Who composed "The Fountains of Rome" and "The Pines of Rome"

A) Gustav Mahler

B) Camille Saint-Saëns

C) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

D) Respighi

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2. Who composed the opera "The Rake's Progress"

A) Gustav Mahler

B) Benjamin Britten

C) Georges Bizet

D) Stravinsky

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3. Which composer, born in Russia in 1882, became a French citizen in 1934, and died in New York in 1971

A) Stravinsky

B) Sergei Prokofiev

C) Sergei Rachmaninoff

D) Dmitri Shostakovich

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4. Whose symphony number seven is called the Leningrad

A) Tchaikovsky

B) Prokofiev

C) Shostakovich

D) Mahler

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5. Who wrote the opera 'the giant'

A) Sergei prokofiev

B) Igor Stravinsky

C) Giacomo Puccini

D) Gioachino Rossini

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6. Which opera singer was known as "La Stupenda"

A) Joan sutherland

B) Montserrat Caballé

C) Maria Callas

D) Renata Tebaldi

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7. Who composed the Overture to the Wasps

A) Edward Elgar

B) Gustav Holst

C) Benjamin Britten

D) Vaughan Williams

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8. Who composed "Sinfonia Antartica"

A) Ralph vaughan williama

B) Benjamin Britten

C) Gustav Holst

D) Edward Elgar

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9. Who composed the musical piece Carmina Burana

A) Ludwig van Beethoven

B) Carl orff

C) Johann Sebastian Bach

D) Richard Wagner

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10. Philip Glass wrote an opera about which famous person

A) Gandhi

B) Richard Nixon

C) Albert Einstein

D) Cleopatra

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11. Name The Russian Composer Who Wrote Peter & The Wolf

A) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

B) Sergei Prokofiev

C) Igor Stravinsky

D) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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12. Which American Soprano Became The First Singer To Give A Solo Proms Recital In August 2000

A) Renée Fleming

B) Beverly Sills

C) Jessye Norman

D) Leontyne Price

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13. Which Suffolk town was the birthplace of Benjamin Britten?

A) Lowestoft

B) Ipswich

C) Bury St Edmunds

D) Southwold

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14. Who was the first American-born principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra?

A) Arturo Toscanini

B) Seiji Ozawa

C) Lorin Maazel

D) Leonard Bernstein

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15. In 1922, which composer scored Mussorgsky's piano piece Pictures at an Exhibition for full orchestra?

A) Ravel

B) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

C) Igor Stravinsky

D) Sergei Prokofiev

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16. The opera Peter Grimes was written by whom

A) Gustav Holst

B) Igor Stravinsky

C) Benjamin britten

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