Music Quiz for everyone!!!

[crazy for ivan moravec]

ANYONE UP FOR A MUSIC QUIZ?

OK, answer the question, then post a new question for the next to answer... it could be any question on MUSIC: history, theory, repertoire, trivia, etc...


so here's the first question:

Which German piano work quotes a fragment of a line of the French National Anthem, (therefore disagreeing with the saying that goes, "Music is the only language in which you cannot say or mean a sarcastic thing." by John Erskine)?

[canardroti]

one of beethoven's symphony

[arensky]

ANYONE UP FOR A MUSIC QUIZ?

Which German piano work quotes a fragment of a line of the French National Anthem, (therefore disagreeing with the saying that goes, "Music is the only language in which you cannot say or mean a sarcastic thing." by John Erskine)?

Ah am always up for a history quiz!

The answer is Schumann's "Fasschingschwank (sp?) aus Wien", in the 1st mvt. Schumann quotes the "Marseille (sp)", which was banned in Vienna at the time. This may have been Schumann's way of thumbing his nose at the Austrian authorities  .

New question....

The French composer who was killed in a bicycle accident was....

[BoliverAllmon]

Ernest Chausson


who was the first American black woman to compose a symphony?

[crazy for ivan moravec]

Florence Beatrice Price?


if correct, here's the next question:

The name of the ship which Granados boarded with his wife after a performance at the White House.

[arensky]

The name of the ship which Granados boarded with his wife after a performance at the White House.

S.S. Sussex

The pianist who for many years would not perform unless his toy plastic lobster was backstage with him was.... 

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Richter.

The youthful pupil of Liszt who sawed off the corners of the piano keys so as to make them smaller and increase his accuracy of key-striking was? (He went on to become a great virtuoso)

[mcgillcomposer]

von Bulow?

If so, here's the next one...

In his General History of Music, Charles Burney describes this lesser-known English organist-composer as follows:

It seems necessary to give some account of this musician, who was an enthusiastic, ingenious, and worthy man, of considerable eminence in his youth for his performance on the harpsichord and organ, both as a sight’s-man and voluntary player; and his intellects being a little deranged in the latter part of his life, rendered him so whimsical and eccentric a character, that he is too prominent to be over-looked.

Who is the mystery composer?

HINT: He was largely responsible for Domenico Scarlatti's fame in England

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Not von Bulow, I'm afraid. It seems his range of neuroses didn't extend as far as vandalising pianos The pianist in question died rather young.

[arensky]

Not von Bulow, I'm afraid. It seems his range of neuroses didn't extend as far as vandalising pianos The pianist in question died rather young.

Carl Tausig?

Interesting, I didn't know that; if so, along the same lines...

Steinway fitted out several pianos with the keys shaved off a fraction of an inch for this early 20th century virtuoso....

[thalbergmad]

Hoffman.

Which famous pianist started off as a virtuoso of the violin??

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Yes, Tausig was correct. Is the answer to Thalbergmad's question Kalkbrenner? I've a vague recollection of having read this somewhere.

[crazy for ivan moravec]

Hoffman.

Which famous pianist started off as a virtuoso of the violin??

harold bauer?

if yes, i've no question yet... feel free.

[thalbergmad]

harold bauer?

if yes, i've no question yet... feel free.

Top marks old boy.

Since you have no question, I have another.

What composer admitted to crying when he dropped a chicken stuffed with truffles overboard, during a trip across the English Channel?

[jas]

Top marks old boy.

Since you have no question, I have another.

What composer admitted to crying when he dropped a chicken stuffed with truffles overboard, during a trip across the English Channel?

Rossini.

When Beethoven's brother sent him a letter signed, "Johann van Beethoven, Land Owner," how did Beethoven sign his reply?

[bernhard]

When Beethoven's brother sent him a letter signed, "Johann van Beethoven, Land Owner," how did Beethoven sign his reply?

"Ludwig van Beethoven, brain owner"

[bernhard]

Which eccentric French composer lived in a small flat where he had two pianos stacked on top of each other and conneceted mechanically so he could play both at the same time?

[presto agitato]

The answer is Schumann's "Fasschingschwank (sp?) aus Wien", in the 1st mvt. Schumann quotes the "Marseille (sp)", which was banned in Vienna at the time. This may have been Schumann's way of thumbing his nose at the Austrian authorities  .

New question....

Brillant aswer i must say

[arensky]

Which eccentric French composer lived in a small flat where he had two pianos stacked on top of each other and conneceted mechanically so he could play both at the same time?

Satie?

Not sure, never heard that that one but it sounds likely...

[alwaystheangel]

Satie?

Not sure, never heard that that one but it sounds likely...

It is Satie,  I'm positive, god he was nuts...

In his one-room apartment Satie had two pianos. One placed on top of the other, their pedals interconnected.

His room must have been pretty crowded, for it also contained his collection of over 100 umbrellas !

Satie once bought 12 grey velvet suits at the same time. He used one suit at a time until it was worn out, then he put on a new one.
When he died, there were 6 suits left in his room, along with his 100 umbrellas.

When Satie was criticised for writing music without form, he immediately composed "Trois Morceaux en forme de poire" (Three Pear-shaped Pieces. They are piano duets).

Satie's eccentricity lives on !
His 180 notes long composition Vexations, directed to be repeated 840 times, was recorded in 1963 in New York. It took a relay team of 10 pianists over eighteen hours to perform. The longest piece ever written.

 From https://www.jazclass.aust.com/satie.htm

Here's the next question:
Which composer invented his own 43-note scale?

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Harry Partch (classical music's equivalent to Bob Dylan???.. hmmm)

Of which pianist-composer did Liszt once enviously say "I could have had velvet paws like that if I had wanted"?

[Barbosa-piano]

 One could have thought Chopin... It was Henselt.

Here is an easy one...

Which composer did Mozart admire for his ability of rapidly playing thirds (although he thought this composer was a charlatan)?

[thalbergmad]

Clementi.

Which European Pianist grossed over $150,000 dollars on a massive tour of the States in 1855?

[ronde_des_sylphes]

I'd have to guess Thalberg.. but I thought he was in South America that year.. so I'm not sure.

[thalbergmad]

I'd have to guess Thalberg.. but I thought he was in South America that year.. so I'm not sure.

Correct, I should have said America.

Thal

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Who were the six composers who contributed to the infamous "Hexameron"?

[thalbergmad]

Chopin, Czerny, Herz, Pixis, Thalberg and Liszt.

[jehangircama]

who once begged a patron to 'judge me kindly and not to my disadvantage'?

[jehangircama]

ok. dumb question. anyway the answer is beethoven.

to keep the post going, what was mendelhssohn's full name?

[jas]

Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Imagine calling a kid that...

Here's an easy one: who said, "What the music I love expresses to me is not thought too indefinite to be put into words, but, on the contrary, too definite"?

[alwaystheangel]

Felix Mendelssohn


Melba Toast is names after which Australian Opera singer?

[alejo_90]

Wich pianist was known for being a reliable concert canceller, towards the end of his career ?

Cheers
Alex

[dinosaurtales]

Van Cliburn.

Which Movement of which of Beethoven's sonatas did Ries have the experience of watching being composed? (while he sat in the room with Beethoven, that is?)

[alejo_90]

Van Cliburn.

Lol ! The answer I had in mind was Richter !! but I guess Cliburn was also a concert canceller...

Best
Alex

[bearzinthehood]

Van Cliburn.

Which Movement of which of Beethoven's sonatas did Ries have the experience of watching being composed? (while he sat in the room with Beethoven, that is?)

I vaguely recall that it was the third movement of the Appassionata.  Don't quote me on this though. 

[steveie986]

Van Cliburn.

Which Movement of which of Beethoven's sonatas did Ries have the experience of watching being composed? (while he sat in the room with Beethoven, that is?)

Appassionata.

Who was Glenn Gould's favorite composer?

[anda]

Who was Glenn Gould's favorite composer?

i read he said it was orlando gibbons; on the other hand, i also read in the end he admitted chopin to have composed "the most pianistically written music"

in case i got it: this pianist's godfather was a composer who wrote an opera named "oedip".