Richard Wagner (Quiz Review #1)

True or False: Richard Wagner wrote the libretto for all his operas.

• True

• False

True or False: Other opera composers frequently copied Richard Wagner’s style.

• True

• False

On what was Wagner’s operas based upon?

• Myths and legends

• Folk songs

• Plays by William Shakespeare

• Plainsong Chant

In addition to music, what did Richard Wagner also write?

• Navigational Charts

• Books

• Newsletters

• All of the above

What term did Richard Wagner use to describe his operas?

• Wagner rings

• Folk plays

• Singing plays

• Music Dramas

True or False: Wagner’s operas were described as having an endless melody.

• True

• False

A recurring melody is know as what?

• A leitmotiv

• A Wagner society

• Bayreuth

• All of the above

The theater Richard Wagner built in Bayreuth, Germany, is used almost exclusively for the performance of what?

• Poetry

• Folk plays

• Operas

• Piano music

What is the name of the composer who became Richard Wagner’s father-in-law?

• Franz Liszt

• Scott Joplin

• Felix Mendelssohn

• Ludwig Van Beethoven