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- From: tsui@csis.dit.csiro.au (Kenneth Tsui)
- Subject: HELP: music quiz
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.000824.18082@csis.dit.csiro.au>
- Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:08:24 GMT
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- 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.
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- Thanks.
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- 1. In what opera is there a character Sportin' Life?
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- 2. What ballet refers to tennis?
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- 3. What music critic was equally distingished as cricket writer?
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- 4. Who wrote a mouvement symphonique entitled `Rugby'?
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- 5. What composer was the greatest chess player of his day?
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- 6. In what opera does a man have his brother put to death?
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- 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?
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- 8. Who said of whom: `I compose to live; my brother lives to compose'?
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- 9. Which brothers were simultaneously the heads of the two main conservatories
- in their country?
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- 10. Which great German composer had a brother who taught the piano in
- Venezuela?
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- 11. Name one composer who murdered his wife.
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- 12. Which composer died after wounding himself while conducting?
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- 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?
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- 14. Which composer was shot because he went out for a smoke?
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- 15. Name a composer of the baroque period who was murdered.
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- 16. THE Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro ... what is the third in
- the sequence, and who set it as an opera?
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- 17. What operas are set in : (a) Allemonde
- (b) Crete
- (c) Sicily
- (d) the Moon?
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- 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).'
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- 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?
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- 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?
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- 21. Name the links: (a) Lark and Frog
- (b) Lark and Wasps
- (c) Chost and Harp
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- 22. Whose daughter:
- (a) inspired a violin concerto (please name both parents) and who was the
- composer?
- (b) was called Chou-Chou?
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- 23. What do Jena and Odense have in common?
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- 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?
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- 25. Of which (then young) French composer did Berlioz say: `He knows everything,
- but lacks inexperience'?
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