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Category: CLASS MUSIC

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LL42 MD6What is the primary occupation of Welshman Bryn Terfel?OPERA SINGER285232101.9
LL41 MD22This musical term, from the Italian for "at ease", is a tempo marking indicating that the music is to be played slowly, or a composition to be played in this manner (e.g. Samuel Barber's "for Strings").ADAGIO567552421.5
LL41 MD12What is the letter of the note highlighted in red on this staff? Click hereG768375751.0
LL41 MD10What is the title of the national anthem of France?LA MARSEILLAISE699477411.0
LL41 MD8Georg Solti, who holds the record for receiving the most Grammy awards (31), spent much of his career -- 22 years -- as the musical director of the symphony orchestra of what city, with which he is most closely associated?CHICAGO315126171.9
LL41 MD7Identify the composer of this piece. Click hereARAM KHACHATURIAN203917102.0
LL39 MD22This French composer's 1890 work Suite bergamasque contains the famous piano piece "Clair de Lune", as its third movement.CLAUDE DEBUSSY627963381.8
LL39 MD2Identify the musical cantata, composed by Carl Orff in the mid-1930s, which is based on (and named after) a collection of medieval monastic poems.CARMINA BURANA446643211.9
LL38 MD9The Tristan chord, a chord made up of the notes F, B, D# and G#, was made famous by what composer, who is responsible for its name?RICHARD WAGNER416244182.0
LL37 MD19The classical work On the Transmigration of Souls, by composer John Adams, was commissioned and composed as a response to what historical event?SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS367130151.4
LL37 MD18Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt is famous for its incidental music, composed by whom?EDVARD GRIEG355644131.6
LL36 MD17This composer, whose most famous works include The Nose, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk, The Age of Gold and 15 symphonies, is widely considered to be the greatest classical composer in the history of the Soviet Union.DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH335831171.8
LL35 MD18Identify the music represented here. Click here for imageMOONLIGHT SONATA385142241.8