Hint | Era | Answer | % Correct |
---|---|---|---|
Went deaf later in life | Classical | Ludwig van Beethoven | 99%
|
Perhaps the most famous child prodigy of all time. | Classical | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 77%
|
Came from a musical family; had many children who continued the musical tradition. | Baroque | Johann Sebastian Bach | 74%
|
Venetian composer famous for his set of four violin concertos. | Baroque | Antonio Vivaldi | 67%
|
Now known almost exclusively for his Canon. | Baroque | Johann Pachelbel | 66%
|
Wrote almost exclusively for solo piano, had a high-profile love life including an affair with the French novelist George Sand. | Romantic | Fryderyk Chopin | 55%
|
Second eldest son of the above, wrote music at the transition of the Baroque and Classical eras (type his initials for the answer). | Baroque | Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach | 52%
|
Said to have made a deal with the devil to play violin so well. | Romantic | Niccolo Paganini | 47%
|
Had a complicated relationship with Stalin and Soviet Russia. | 20th century | Dmitri Shostakovich | 46%
|
Piano virtuoso who wrote many piano transcriptions and arrangements of other composer's works, including the fiendishly difficult Réminiscences de Don Juan. | Romantic | Franz Liszt | 44%
|
Composer who debuted most of her husband's piano works as a performer (Type her first name for the answer). | Romantic | Clara Schumann | 42%
|
Their most famous work is unfinished. | Romantic | Franz Schubert | 39%
|
Hungarian composer who championed folk melodies, wrote a "Concerto for Orchestra". | 20th century | Bela Bartok | 36%
|
Known as Impressionist despite strongly rejecting the term. | 20th century | Claude Debussy | 36%
|
Nationalist composer who helped develop his country's national identity while it sought independence from Russia. | Romantic | Jean Sibelius | 33%
|
Rumoured to have been in love with the above after the above's husband was institutionalised. | Romantic | Johannes Brahms | 25%
|
Jewish leader of the Second Viennese School whose works were targeted by the Nazi Party. | 20th century | Arnold Schoenberg | 20%
|
Supported himself as a taxi driver while starting his compositional career. | 20th/21st century | Phillip Glass | 19%
|
At the premiere of this composer's most famous piece, a woman shouted he was mad. He remarked that she understood the piece. | 20th century | Maurice Ravel | 14%
|
Had synaesthesia, influenced by theosophy and Russian Symbolism. | 20th century | Alexander Scriabin | 13%
|
Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024
Contact Us | Go To Top | View Mobile Site