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Trivia Questions - Music trivia questions;  Handel, Mozart, Presley, Sax, Les Paul, Jimi Hendrix, orchestra and more.

 


 

 




 

 

 

Trivia questions about music, musicians, instruments and more with the answers.

What style of composition are Haydn's The creation and Handel's Messiah?
A: Oratorios.

By what name is Robert Zimmerman better known?
A: Bob Dylan.

Which Russian composer wrote Peter and the Wolf?
A: Prokofiev.

What was used to conduct the orchestra before the baton was introduced in the early 19th century?
A: A violin bow.

Who composed the opera Idomeneo?
A: Mozart.

What nationality was Adolph Sax, inventor of the saxophone?
A: Belgian.

What technique was used by guitarist Les Paul, and also describes the sound made by overloading circuits between guitar and amplifier?
A: Feedback.

To which family of instruments does the double bass belong?
A: Viol.

What was the nationality of Bartok, Kodaly and Liszt?
A: Hungarian.

Why didn't Gustav Holst include Pluto in his 1918 orchestral suite The Planets?
A: It wasn't discovered yet.

What nationality was Dvorak?
A: Czech.

Who wrote Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un Faune?
A: Debussy.

Who wrote the Moonlight and Appassionata among his 32 piano sonatas?
A: Beethoven.

Which teacher of Mozart and Beethoven wrote more than 100 symphonies?
A: Haydn.

Who became conductor of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the age of 25 in 1980?
A: Simon Rattle.

What is the title of Beethoven's only opera?
A: Fidelio.

Which American composer wrote the march 'Stars an Stripes Forever!' and invented a bass tuba?
A: John Philip Sousa.

Which instrument did the theologian Albert Schweitzer play?
A: Organ.

Which composer held the office of prime minister in Poland in 1919?
A: Paderewski.

Who was Richard Rodgers's collaborator on Oklahoma!?
A: Oscar Hammerstein.

Which instrument did Bartolommeo Cristofori invent in 1704?
A: Piano.

Which Borodin opera was completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov after he composer's death?
A: Prince Igor.

Who composed Danse macabre and Carnival of the Animals?
A: Camille Saint-Saens.

In which year did Elvis Presley have hits with 'Heartbreak Hotel', 'Hound Dog', and 'Love Me Tender'?
A: 1956.

Who wrote the song 'Beautiful Dreamer'?
A: Stephen Foster.

Whose albums include "Beggars' Banquet" and 'Exit on Main Street'?
A: The Rolling Stones.

Who wrote the opera Cunning Little Vixen?
A: Janacek.

Who turned his score for the film Scott of the Antarctic into his Sinfonia Antarctica?
A: Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Which Irish flautist was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic  1969-75 before  pursuing a solo career?
A: James Galway.

Which modern composer composed the operas Punch and Judy, The Mask of Orpheus, and Gawain?
A: Harrison Birtwistle.

Who developed the 12-tone system of composition?
A: Arnold Schoenberg.

What was the name of the Italian village renowned for its violin-making families of Amati, Guarneri and Stradivari?
A: Cremona.

For which British king did Handel compose the Water Music in 1717?
A: George I.

What are Peter Grimes and Billy Budd?
A: Operas by Benjamin Britten.

Where was Handel's Messiah first performed?
A: Dublin.

Which modern composer's works include the operas Einstein on the Beach and Akhnaten?
A: Philip Glass.

Which legendary magician was the inspiration for musical works by Busoni, Berlioz, Gounod and Schumann?
A: Faust.

Whose first album was titled Are You Experienced?
A: Jimi Hendrix.

Which composer transcribed birdsong and incorporated it into much of his work?
A: Messiaen.

Whose first solo hit was 'Got to Be There'?
A: Michael Jackson.

The German composer of Almira later became a British subject. Who was he?
A: Handel.

What nationality is the pianist Alfred Brendel?
A: Austrian.

 

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