A Quiz About French Composers

Composer of a scandalous opera featuring love rivals Escamillo and Don José

Polish-born French citizen who died aged 39; all his 230 works involve the piano

Russian-born 20-year French resident who died in the US; a citizen of all three nations

Electronic music composer whose 1970s albums Oxygène and Équinoxe were massive hits

Composer of Faust, an opera

Jules Massenet's opera from which the Méditation is a popular piece

 

 

Claude ________, 1862-1918

Gabriel _____, 1945-1924

The pieces they composed, each with the same title as the poem above

 

 

A piece about a useless would-be wizard

Its composer Dukas' first name

 

 

Composer with a saintly name, 1835-1921

The featured instrument in his 3rd Symphony?

1978 UK pop hit using its main melody

His work of 14 movements, including one called Kangaroos

 

 

Who said this? He wrote 3 Gnossiennes for piano

His more famous piano works, again 3 in number

 

 

What piece is being described here? It's a one-minute melody, repeated 17 times

Italian conductor (1867-1957) who fell out with its composer who told him
"You played it too fast", to which he answered "It was the only way to save it"

That composer (1875-1937)