Composer Quiz: RVMS 2023

Which composer is NOT from Germany?

• Mozart

• Bach

• Beethoven

• Händel

Match the composer with the primary instrument(s) he played:

• Harpsichord

• Mozart

• Violin

• Bach

• Piano & Violin

• Strauss

• Piano

• Händel

• Pipe Organ

• Beethoven

Mozart was only ​ (a)   years old when he composed his first piece, "Twinkle, Twinkle."

• 5
• 4
• 3
• 2
• 6
• 7

Put these composers in where they were born (where they came from)

Groups:

(a) Poland/France

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(b) Germany

,

(c) Austria

• Beethoven

• Mozart

• Bach

• Händel

• Strauss

• Chopin

Which fact matches something we learned about Beethoven?

• He was a child prodigy

• He was forced to leave Poland and never return to his home country

• He composed church music every week for church services

• He went deaf in his 30s but kept composing by cutting the legs off of the piano and feeling the vibrations

Which fact matches something we learned about Mozart?

• He was a child prodigy and composed his first piece of music at 5 years old

• He was forced to leave Poland and never return to his home country

• He composed church music every week for church services

• He went deaf in his 30s but kept composing by cutting the legs off of the piano and feeling the vibrations

Which fact matches something we learned about Bach?

• He was a child prodigy and composed his first piece of music at 5 years old

• He was forced to leave Poland and never return to his home country

• He composed church music every week for church services

• He went deaf in his 30s but kept composing by cutting the legs off of the piano and feeling the vibrations

Match the following composers with the style of music they helped create:

• waltz

• Händel

• operas

• Chopin

• nocturne

• Beethoven

• oratorio

• Mozart

• symphonies

• Strauss

Extra credit: What song is Brahms famous to people now-a-days for composing

• Twinkle Twinkle

• The Blue Danube Waltz

• Symphony no. 9

• The Lullaby Song

Which composer did we NOT study

• Tchaikovsky

• Beethoven

• Brahms

• Beethoven