FanFaire's Rough Guide to Classical Music Quiz

FanFaire's ROUGH GUIDE TO CLASSICAL MUSIC QUIZ

This superb book has EVERYTHING you always wanted to know about CLASSICAL MUSIC and were never afraid to ask.

Don't let the title mislead you - there is nothing ROUGH about this book, not even around the edges. This 642-page guide organized alphabetically by composer is a FINE book packed with information, finely written in a style that makes it a joy to read, exceptionally well-researched, and richly illustrated. Throughout the book are feature boxes on topics of either human, historical or purely informational interest. The list of composers is complete as can be: it includes the greats we revere as well as the lesser known ones whom you or I may be learning of for the first time as we flip through the book. They range in age from 908 years (Hildegard of Bingen) to 35 (Thomas Adès). The works, by necessity and perhaps out of kind consideration, are not complete. The authors have been wise to include only those works, instrumental and vocal, that music lovers like us are most likely to listen to in performance or on record. And in this regard, the information presented is very comprehensive. Whether you love classical music with a passion, or are only beginning to get the hang of it, this is a book you would like to be always within reach. Clearly, this book is a diamond, NOT a diamond in the ROUGH!

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Bride of the Wind: Alma Mahler
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Bernstein Live! CD Sampler
Rossetti Quartet
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Women Composers & the Men in Their Lives

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Just for fun, test your music IQ - take the QUIZ below. The correct answers will appear on your screen as soon as you submit them.

1. Name the conductor whose photo appears on the cover of the 4th Edition of
The Rough Guide To Classical Music.

2. In 2002, he became the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of one of the best orchestras in the world. Name the orchestra.

3. In his debut concert as Chief Conductor, he directed a performance of a work by one of the great post-romantic composers. You're hearing in the background a clip from the slow (fourth) movement "Adagietto" as performed by the same orchestra under the baton of the late legendary Maestro who directed the orchestra for 35 years.

Name the composer and the work. [Hint: It was made familiar by the film "Death in Venice" based on the novel by the winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature.]
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4. Name the "legendary Maestro" mentioned above.

5. Name the author of "Death in Venice."

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