Modern Classical Music

What kind of wind instrument has a high solo at the beginning of "The Rite of Spring" and represents the Grandfather in "Peter and the Wolf?"

• clarinet
• trumpet
• flute
• bassoon

In what repetitive Maurice Ravel piece does the snare drum play a constant pattern underneath one long crescendo?

• La Valse
• Daphnis et Chloé
• Pavane pour une infante défunte
• Boléro

What founder of the Second Viennese School wrote "Pierrot Lunaire" and created the twelve-tone method of composition?

• Gustav Mahler
• Anton Webern
• Arnold Schoenberg
• Alban Berg

Jean Sibelius was a nationalist composer from what country?

• Sweden
• Norway
• Denmark
• Finland

Who wrote a set of three Gymnopedies for piano, also served as a father figure to the group of French composers known as "Les Six?"

• Gabriel Fauré
• Claude Debussy
• Maurice Ravel
• Erik Satie

What George Gershwin piece was written for Paul Whiteman's band and opens with a clarinet glissando?

• Porgy and Bess
• Concerto in F
• Rhapsody in Blue
• An American in Paris

"Nimrod" is a movement from the Enigma Variations of what composer whose first Pomp and Circumstance March is played at graduations?

• Gustav Mahler
• Johannes Brahms
• Richard Wagner
• Edward Elgar

What German composer was inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche to write the tone poem "Also Sprach Zarathustra?"

• Richard Strauss
• Gustav Mahler
• Johannes Brahms
• Carl Orff

What conductor of the New York Philharmonic wrote the musicals "Candide" and "West Side Story"?

• George Gershwin
• Stephen Sondheim
• Aaron Copland
• Leonard Bernstein

A Henry Purcell melody forms the basis of what composers "The Young Persons' Guide To The Orchestra?"

• Benjamin Britten
• Claude Debussy
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart