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MS 5 - Baroqe and Classical Composers

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the composer that is INCORRECTLY matched with his composition.

a)

Claude Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

b)

George Fredric Handel - Royal Fireworks Music

c)

Johannes Brahms - A German Requiem

d)

Johannes Bach - The Marriage of Figaro

2.

Count Almaviva tries to end the engagement of his barber to Susanna in which of Mozart’s operas?

a)

The Marriage of Figaro

b)

The Magic Flute

c)

Don Giovanni

d)

Cosi Fan Tutte

3.

Johann Sebastian Bach composed The Brandenburg Concertos and The Well-Tempered Clavier during which musical era?

a)

Romantic

b)

Classical

c)

Baroque

d)

Renaissance

4.

Which composer below, the elector of Hanover’s musical director, created the oratorios Esther, Saul, and

Samson?

a)

Johannes Brahms

b)

Ludwig van Beethoven

c)

Antonio Vivaldi

d)

George Frederic Handel

5.

Franz Joseph Haydn composed each of the works below. Which one is an oratorio?

a)

The Seasons

b)

Farewell

c)

“Gypsy Rondo”

d)

“Emperor’s Hymn”

6.

Identify the composer that is INCORRECTLY matched with his time period.

a)

Richard Wagner - Romantic

b)

Johann Sebastian Bach - Baroque

c)

Igor Stravinsky - Neoclassical

d)

Du Fay - Classical

7.

Which of the following characters appears in Mozart’s The Magic Flute?

a)

Aida

b)

Aurora

c)

Delilah

d)

Pamina

8.

Identify the composer that is INCORRECTLY matched with his work.

a)

Johannes Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Haydn

b)

George Fredric Handel - Solomon

c)

Johann Sebastian Bach - St. Matthew Passion

d)

Beethoven - A Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

9.

Which composer is INCORRECTLY matched with his work?

a)

Antonio Vivaldi - Spring

b)

George Frideric Handel - Water Music

c)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Jupiter Symphony

d)

Johannes Sebastian Bach - Claire de Lune

10.

Which character below can be found in Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro?

a)

Pamina

b)

Guglielmo

c)

Count Almaviva

d)

Don Giovanni

11.

Which composer below was the creator of Missa Solemnis, the incidental music for the play Egmont, and an opera about a cross-dressing wife and her imprisoned husband?

a)

Ludwig van Beethoven

b)

Johann Sebastian Bach

c)

Frédéric Chopin

d)

Franz Liszt

12.

Identify the composer INCORRECTLY matched with his composition.

a)

Ludwig von Beethoven - La Mer

b)

J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos

c)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro

d)

Joseph Haydn - The Creation

13.

Which of the following men, a composer buried in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner, completed the Oratorio Saul, as well as the “Hallelujah Chorus”?

a)

Ludwig van Beethoven

b)

Felix Mendelssohn

c)

Antonio Vivaldi

d)

George Frideric Handel

14.

Two officers disguise themselves to test their fiancées’ faithfulness in what Mozart opera?

a)

The Magic Flute

b)

Così fan tutte

c)

The Marriage of Figaro

d)

Don Giovanni

15.

Franz Joseph Haydn composed over one hundred works in which musical genre below, making him the “father” of that style?

a)

string quartet

b)

oratorio

c)

cantata

d)

symphony

16.

Identify the composer that is INCORRECTLY matched with his work.

a)

George Frideric Handel - Royal Fireworks Music

b)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Prelude of the Afternoon of a Faun

c)

Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande

d)

Richard Wagner - Tännhauser

17.

Johann Sebastian Bach composed three of the following works. Which one did Igor Stravinsky create?

a)

Toccata and Fugue in D minor

b)

The Rake’s Progress

c)

St. John Passion

d)

Mass in B minor

18.

Which Mozart opera below features Count Almaviva, Susanna, and Doctor Bartolo?

a)

The Marriage of Figaro

b)

The Abduction from the Seraglio

c)

Don Giovanni

d)

Così fan tutte

19.

Which of Haydn’s London Symphonies begins with a large timpani flourish?

a)

“Surprise”

b)

“Military”

c)

“Clock”

d)

“Drumroll”

20.

Goldberg Variations, Brandenburg Concerto and Toccata and Fugue

a)

JS Bach

b)

Monteverdi

c)

Handel

d)

Haydn