WorksheetsTest 4-4
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The most original, and probably the greatest of the Russian five, was
Cesar Cui
Modest Mussorgsky
Alexander Borodin
Mily Balakirev
The founder of Czech national music was
Cesar Cui
Antonin Dvorak
Bedrich Smetana
Boris Godunov
Even though Smetana was deaf at the time he composed a musical work depicting Bohemia's main river as it flows through the countryside. The name of the river, and the musical composition, is the
Moldau
Seine
Danube
Thames
In 1892, Dvorak went to _________ , where he spent almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music.
London
New York
Prague
Leipzig
Dvorak "found a secure basis for a new national (American) musical school" in the
music of New York
Western art music taught at the National Conservatory of Music
African- American spirituals
Traditional folk music of European immigrants
Verdi's great comic masterpiece, written when he was seventy-nine, is
Il Trovatore
Otello
Falstaff
Aida
Verdi studied music in ____________, the city where Italy's most important opera house, La Scala, is located.
Rome
Florence
Venice
Milan
Rigoletto, the title character in Giuseppe Verdi's opera, is
a hunchback
the father of Gilda
a court jester to the duke of Mantua
all answers are correct
Verdi's first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was
Oberto
Aida
Nabucco
La Traviata
Verdi mainly composed his operas
for the Italian musical elite
to glorify the singers
to promote Italian unification
to entertain a mass public
