From: tsui@csis.dit.csiro.au (Kenneth Tsui)
Subject: HELP: music quiz
Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:08:24 GMT




I need help to answer the following for a music quiz. Some of the questions
are quite interesting. I'll post the answers when they come out in Feburary.

Thanks.


1. In what opera is there a character Sportin' Life?

2. What ballet refers to tennis?

3. What music critic was equally distingished as cricket writer?

4. Who wrote a mouvement symphonique entitled `Rugby'?

5. What composer was the greatest chess player of his day?

6. In what opera does a man have his brother put to death?

7. In what opera does a man take his brother's place in Hades so that the
   brother can marry the girl they both wanted?

8. Who said of whom: `I compose to live; my brother lives to compose'?

9. Which brothers were simultaneously the heads of the two main conservatories
   in their country?

10. Which great German composer had a brother who taught the piano in
    Venezuela?

11. Name one composer who murdered his wife.

12. Which composer died after wounding himself while conducting?

13. Which composer was killed
    (a) in a bicycle accident?
    (b) by drowning in the English Channel during World War I?
    (c) at the Siege of Chester after writing music during the Siege of York?

14. Which composer was shot because he went out for a smoke?

15. Name a composer of the baroque period who was murdered.

16. THE Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro ... what is the third in
    the sequence, and who set it as an opera?

17. What operas are set in : (a) Allemonde
                             (b) Crete
                             (c) Sicily
                             (d) the Moon?

18. Which French composer wrote the following, and while writing which opera?:
    `I have found, and what is more quite spontaneously, a technique which
    strikes me as fairly new, that is, silence (don't laugh).'

19. (a) Which prima donna, engaged to sing in London, married on the journey
    from Venice the harpsichordist sent to fetch her?
    (b) Which famous librettist ran a distillery in New York and a milliner's
    shop in Philadelphia?

20. Which castrato:
    (a) sang the same song every evening to charm the King of Spain?
    (b) was killed because he boasted of a love affair he had with a lady of
        noble birth?
    (c) was allegedly the father of children and recipient of a (lost) scena
        by Mozart?

21. Name the links: (a) Lark and Frog
                    (b) Lark and Wasps
                    (c) Chost and Harp

22. Whose daughter:
    (a) inspired a violin concerto (please name both parents) and who was the
        composer?
    (b) was called Chou-Chou?

23. What do Jena and Odense have in common?

24. (a) Whose son taught the piano in Lemberg (now Lvov)?
    (b) Which director of the Paris Conservatoire is said to have travelled in
        on the Metro, got out a stop early, and taken a taxi, to keep up
        appearances?

25. Of which (then young) French composer did Berlioz say: `He knows everything,
    but lacks inexperience'?

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