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
By the time his Ninth Symphony premiered in 1824, which of his five senses had Ludwig van Beethoven almost completely lost?
Hearing
Which 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, for its fictionalized portrayal of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Amadeus
The galloping finale of Rossini’s "William Tell Overture" was famously used as the theme song for which masked TV and radio hero?
The Lone Ranger
Despite composing hundreds of sacred cantatas and instrumental works, which major dramatic musical genre did Johann Sebastian Bach never once touch?
Opera
Which composer included offstage cowbells in his Sixth Symphony to evoke the isolation of the Austrian mountains?
Gustav Mahler