Each week, BBC Music Magazine has a special classical-themed quiz for you, put together by our resident quizmaster and fountain of all knowledge Jeremy Pound. Pit your classical expertise against this week’s quiz below.
BBC Music Magazine quiz: Thursday 24 October 2024
1. Whose Fourth Symphony, premiered in 1881, is often nicknamed the ‘Romantic’?
2. Mozart was never paid for his Flute Concerto in D, K314 because he’d simply adapted a concerto written for which instrument?
3. Based on a tale from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, whose opera Cadmus et Hermione was premiered in Paris on 27 April 1673?
4. Often played on guitar but originally written for piano, Asturias (Leyenda) is an 1892 work by which Spanish composer? And which group quoted it in their 1968 song ‘Spanish Caravan’?
5. A lute with a broken string and a Lutheran hymnbook are among the symbols in which 1533 painting by Hans Holbein, pictured top?
6. The 400th anniversary of the death of which wayward English composer, whose time as organist at Chichester Cathedral (below) was marked by a series of scandals, was marked on 30 November last year?
7. Initially a group of friends gathered together by conductor Harry Christophers, which vocal group gave its first concert in 1979?
8. Name the music competitions of which the following were the first ever female winners: a) Sofya Gulyak (2009); b) Ayako Uehara (2002); c) Anna Markland (1982)?
9. Including the ‘cello overcoat in C’ and ‘chromatic tub in B’, the cephalophones were an imaginary group of ‘unplayable’ instruments dreamt up by which composer?
10. In 1972, Nino Rota based the Main Title of The Godfather film score on the opening melody of which composer’s First Symphony?
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Answers
Here are the answers to this week's BBC Music Magazine quiz.
How did you score...? First, here's the composer who forms the answer to question 1.
And here are your answers...
2. The oboe
5. The Ambassadors
7. The Sixteen
8. a) Leeds International Piano Competition; b) Tchaikovsky Piano Competition; c) BBC Young Musician of the Year
9. Erik Satie
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10. Jean Sibelius