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- From: icking@gmd.de (Werner Icking)
- Subject: Re: HELP: music quiz
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- References: <1992Dec22.000824.18082@csis.dit.csiro.au>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:25:28 GMT
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- In <1992Dec22.000824.18082@csis.dit.csiro.au> tsui@csis.dit.csiro.au (Kenneth Tsui) writes:
- >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.
-
- Let's start with the first ten - otherwise it would be work.
-
- >1. In what opera is there a character Sportin' Life?
- Zauberfloete by Wolfgang Amadeus Goethe
-
- >2. What ballet refers to tennis?
- Schwanenroeschen by Tschaikerewski
-
- >3. What music critic was equally distingished as cricket writer?
- Yes.
-
- >4. Who wrote a mouvement symphonique entitled `Rugby'?
- JSB ("Rugby" is an alias for Toccata und Fuge in d-moll)
-
- >5. What composer was the greatest chess player of his day?
- Bob Karpow (most compositions of him are lost, because he couldn't
- write them down; he only knew how they looked)
-
- >6. In what opera does a man have his brother put to death?
- Messias by Johann Gottfried Haendel (may be Haydn?)
-
- >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?
- in (nearly) every opera
-
- >8. Who said of whom: `I compose to live; my brother lives to compose'?
- Karl Marx (ich arbeite, um zu leben; mein Bruder lebt, um zu arbeiten.)
-
- >9. Which brothers were simultaneously the heads of the two main conservatories
- > in their country?
- Die Gebrueder Grimm (composed the famous opera "Haendel und Gretel" by
- Engelbert Humperdink)
-
- >10. Which great German composer had a brother who taught the piano in
- > Venezuela?
- Henryk Szeryng (but he isn't a real composer, nor does he teach the
- piano; he plays the violin, is not german(?), and lives somewhere)
-
- sorry, couldn't resist -- happy christmas and all the best for 1993.
-
- Werner
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