Classical Composers Trivia
From Mozart's five-year-old flexes to Beethoven's Napoleon-sized temper tantrums, see if you're sharp enough to handle the masters.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Which Italian composer wrote the "William Tell Overture" for what would be his final opera?
Gioachino Rossini
At which city's King’s Theatre did Joseph Haydn premiere his final symphony, No. 104, in 1795?
London
Johann Sebastian Bach is widely considered the definitive figure of which musical era?
Baroque
In his massive music dramas, what term did Richard Wagner popularize for a recurring musical theme that represents a specific character, object, or idea?
Leitmotif
Widely considered history's greatest child prodigy, at what age did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begin composing his first musical pieces?
Five