🎻 Classical Trivia Questions

What instrument does a 'virtuoso violinist' play?

• Cello
• Violin
• Viola
• Double bass

Which composer wrote the 'Moonlight Sonata'?

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Franz Schubert
• Johannes Brahms

Which composer wrote 'The Four Seasons'?

• Antonio Vivaldi
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• George Frideric Handel
• Arcangelo Corelli

Which child prodigy composer wrote over 600 works before dying at age 35?

• Franz Joseph Haydn
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Franz Schubert
• Felix Mendelssohn

Which composer wrote the opera 'The Magic Flute'?

• Mozart
• Beethoven
• Wagner
• Verdi

Which Russian composer wrote the '1812 Overture'?

• Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Igor Stravinsky
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Dmitri Shostakovich

Which composer wrote both 'Swan Lake' and 'The Nutcracker'?

• Tchaikovsky
• Prokofiev
• Rimsky-Korsakov
• Stravinsky

Which composer continued composing after becoming completely deaf?

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Franz Liszt
• Johannes Brahms

Which composer wrote the opera 'Carmen'?

• Georges Bizet
• Claude Debussy
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• Hector Berlioz

Which Italian composer wrote 'La Bohème' and 'Madama Butterfly'?

• Giuseppe Verdi
• Gioachino Rossini
• Giacomo Puccini
• Vincenzo Bellini

Which composer is famous for 'Canon in D'?

• Johann Pachelbel
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• George Frideric Handel
• Henry Purcell

Which Baroque composer wrote the 'Brandenburg Concertos'?

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• George Frideric Handel
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Georg Philipp Telemann

Which composer wrote the orchestral fairy tale 'Peter and the Wolf'?

• Igor Stravinsky
• Sergei Prokofiev
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Aram Khachaturian

Which composer wrote Symphony No. 9, featuring the 'Ode to Joy'?

• Beethoven
• Brahms
• Mahler
• Bruckner

Which Polish composer is famous for his nocturnes and mazurkas for solo piano?

• Frédéric Chopin
• Franz Liszt
• Robert Schumann
• Sergei Rachmaninoff

Which composer wrote the ballet 'The Rite of Spring'?

• Sergei Prokofiev
• Igor Stravinsky
• Aaron Copland
• Maurice Ravel

Which Norwegian composer wrote 'In the Hall of the Mountain King'?

• Jean Sibelius
• Edvard Grieg
• Carl Nielsen
• Niels Gade

Which composer wrote 'Ave Maria,' set to a prelude originally by Bach?

• Charles Gounod
• Franz Schubert
• Giulio Caccini
• César Franck

Which instrument family does the cello belong to?

• Woodwinds
• Brass
• Strings
• Percussion

What is the term for a piece of music written for a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra?

• Sonata
• Concerto
• Symphony
• Etude