Trivia Quiz on Baroque

1. Who wrote the Royal Firework Music

A) Johann Sebastian Bach

B) Antonio Vivaldi

C) George Friedric Handel

D) Henry Purcell

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2. Vivaldi's concertos Opus 8 Numbers 1-4 better known as what

A) L'Estro Armonico

B) Brandenburg Concertos

C) Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione

D) The four Seasons

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3. Handel's Largo comes from which opera

A) Rinaldo

B) Alcina

C) Giulio Cesare

D) Xerxes

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4. Which composer was nickname the Red Priest

A) Vivaldi

B) Bach

C) Haydn

D) Mozart

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5. Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons - what's his first name

A) Antonio

B) Ludovico

C) Giacomo

D) Johann

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6. Who was the composer of the classical piece known as 'Zadok The Priest'?

A) Johann Sebastian Bach

B) Henry Purcell

C) Handel

D) Antonio Vivaldi

E) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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7. Which classical composer was nicknamed 'The Red Priest'

A) Johann Sebastian Bach

B) Vivaldi

C) George Frideric Handel

D) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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8. Who composed the Goldberg Variations

A) George Frideric Handel

B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

C) J. s. bach

D) Antonio Vivaldi

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9. Who composed the Brandeberg concertos full names

A) Johannes Brahms

B) Johan Sebastian Bach

C) Antonio Vivaldi

D) Ludwig van Beethoven

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10. A style that flourished in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by exuberant decoration, curvaceous forms, and a grand scale generating a sense of movement; later developments within the movement show more restraint.

A) Rococo

B) Baroque

C) Neoclassicism

D) Renaissance

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11. What was used before the baton was invented to conduct

A) A Violin Bow

B) A staff

C) The conductor's hand

D) A feather quill

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12. Which painter spent last 4 years of his life on the run for murder

A) Diego Velázquez

B) Rembrandt van Rijn

C) Claude Monet

D) Carravagio for murder in Rome

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13. Why did Handel compose The Messiah

A) For Cash

B) To celebrate a royal coronation

C) To fulfill a patron's private invitation to compose quickly

D) To attract a new audience with a dramatic oratorio

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14. On Of The Most Prolific Composers Of All Time His Surname Means Stream In His Native German Language Who Is He

A) Ludwig van Beethoven

B) Johann Sebastian Bach

C) Franz Schubert

D) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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15. A movement in European painting in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by violent movement, strong emotion, and dramatic lighting and coloring.

A) Mannerism

B) Baroque

C) Rococo

D) Romanticism

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16. Which Movement Spanned The Period From The 17th Century To The Early 18th

A) Baroque

B) Rococo

C) Romanticism

D) Neoclassicism

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