Set 2 ARCT

For which amateur cellist was Schubert's 'Trout' Piano Quintet in A Major commissioned?

Sylvester Paumgartner

What specific instrument replaces the second violin in the instrumentation of Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet?

Double Bass

Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet was likely influenced by a quintet written by which other composer?

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

In the fourth movement of the 'Trout' Quintet, which instrument leads the melody in Variation 2?

Viola

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, was written for which specific violinist?

Ferdinand David

In a structural innovation inspired by Beethoven, where did Mendelssohn place the cadenza in the first movement of his Violin Concerto in E minor?

After the development section

Which instrument provides a sustained B to create a direct link between the first and second movements of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor?

Bassoon

What 1829 historic revival did Felix Mendelssohn organize, marking its first performance since the composer's death?

J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

Robert Schumann's 'Carnaval' is built upon a musical cipher representing which German town?

Asch

In Robert Schumann's 'Carnaval', which character reflects the introspective and contemplative side of his personality?

Eusebius

What was the name of the influential music journal co-founded by Robert Schumann?

Neue Zeitschrift für Musik

Clara Schumann's 'Liebst du um Schönheit' was published as part of a song cycle titled _____.

Liebesfrühling (Love's Springtime)

Which poet wrote the text for Clara Schumann's 'Liebst du um Schönheit'?

Friedrich Rückert

Clara Schumann earned the nickname 'high priestess of music' from which fellow composer and pianist?

Franz Liszt

Brahms based 'Ein deutsches Requiem' on texts from whose German Bible?

Martin Luther

Which movement forms the apex of the arch-like structure in Brahms's 'Ein deutsches Requiem'?

4th movement

In 1880, Brahms wrote the 'Academic Festival Overture' in gratitude for an honorary doctorate from which university?

University of Breslau

Liszt's 'La Campanella' is a solo piano adaptation of a melody from a violin concerto by which composer?

Nicolò Paganini

Liszt is credited with inventing which specific orchestral genre?

Symphonic poem

Which pianist's theatrical showmanship and technical facility inspired Franz Liszt to take piano virtuosity to new heights?

Paganini

Verdi's 'La traviata' is based on the novel 'La dame aux camélias' by which author?

Alexandre Dumas (the younger)

In Act 2, Scene 2 of 'La traviata', what does Alfredo fling at Violetta to humiliate her?

His card-game winnings

What institution in Milan did Giuseppe Verdi bequeath significant money to for retired musicians?

Casa di Riposo per Musicisti

Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' cycle is based on a fusion of Norse mythology and which epic medieval poem?

Nibelungenlied

What instrument did Richard Wagner invent to bridge the gap between the French horn and the trombone?

Wagner tuba

Who served as the librettist for all of Richard Wagner's music dramas?

Wagner himself

At the opening night of which famous New York City venue did Tchaikovsky conduct in 1891?

Carnegie Hall

In Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo and Juliet Overture', which instrument first presents the 'Friar Laurence' theme?

Clarinet (and bassoon)

What instruction did Gustav Mahler give the soprano soloist for the fourth movement of Symphony No. 4?

"With childlike, cheerful expression; completely without parody."

According to Mahler, which key represented the 'heavenly key' in his Symphony No. 4?

E major

Mahler's 'Symphony No. 8' is famously known by what nickname due to its massive performing forces?

Symphony of a thousand

Maurice Ravel's 'Jeux d’eau' was inspired by a virtuosic piano piece by which composer?

Franz Liszt

Ravel's Basque heritage significantly influenced his affinity for music from which country?

Spain

What military role did Maurice Ravel serve during World War I?

Military transport driver

To whose memory did Ravel dedicate 'Le tombeau de Couperin'?

His mother (and friends lost in the war)

Which 1912 Schoenberg work is based on poems by the Belgian poet Albert Giraud?

Pierrot Lunaire

Arnold Schoenberg worked in what profession for five years to support his family after his father's death?

Banking

Schoenberg's 'Suite für Klavier', Op. 25, is historically significant for being his first _____.

Fully twelve-tone work

In which city did Alban Berg's 'Wozzeck' premiere in 1925, conducted by Erich Kleiber?

Berlin

The plot of Alban Berg's 'Wozzeck' is based on the 1836-1837 play by which author?

Georg Büchner

In the 'Pond Scene' of 'Wozzeck', what color is the moon intended to be?

blood red

Anton Webern's 'Symphony, op. 21' is dedicated to his deep study of which Renaissance composer?

Heinrich Isaac

Describe the orchestration of the main theme in the second movement of Webern's 'Symphony, op. 21'.

Presented by harp and French horns

The 'Intermezzo Interrotto' in Bartók's 'Concerto for Orchestra' parodies a melody from which operetta?

Franz Lehár's 'The Merry Widow'

Which conductor and orchestra commissioned Bartók's 'Concerto for Orchestra' in 1943?

Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Bartók died in 1945 in which city, while being treated for leukemia?

NYC

Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet' ballet did not premiere in Russia until 1940 because he had originally changed the ending to be _____.

Happy

Sergei Prokofiev died on the same day in 1953 as which world leader?

Josef Stalin

Which Prokofiev work was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes?

Scythian Suite

Olivier Messiaen composed 'Quatuor pour la fin du Temps' while being held as a prisoner of war in which camp?

Stalag VIII-A (Germany)

Messiaen's 'Quatuor pour la fin du Temps' is based on which specific book of the Bible?

Book of revelation

For which specific church in Paris did Olivier Messiaen serve as organist for over 60 years?

Church of Holy Trinity

From whose 1942 speech did Aaron Copland derive the title 'Fanfare for the Common Man'?

Henry A. Wallace

Ligeti’s 'Atmosphères' gained worldwide fame after being used in which Stanley Kubrick film?

2001: A Space Odyssey

Which Ligeti performance piece features exactly 100 metronomes?

Poème symphonique

With which legendary French teacher did Aaron Copland study at Fontainebleau?

Nadia Boulanger

For which film score did Aaron Copland win an Academy Award?

The Heiress

Jean Coulthard's 'Canada Mosaic' was commissioned by which orchestra and premiered in Japan?

VSO

The fifth movement of Coulthard's 'Canada Mosaic' quotes which French-Canadian folk song?

“À la claire fontaine”

John Cage's 'Sonatas and Interludes' were influenced by his study of which Indian aesthetic concept?

Rasa aesthetic (eight 'permanent' emotions)

John Cage developed which modified piano technique during the 1940s?

Prepared piano

What specific Inuit subject matter did Schafer explore in his work 'Snowforms'?

The many Inuit words for "snow"

Steve Reich’s 'Electric Counterpoint' was commissioned for which jazz-guitar virtuoso?

Pat Metheny

In which university did Steve Reich study African drumming?

U of Ghana

R. Murray Schafer founded which field of study that explores the relationship between humans and their audible environment?

Acoustic Ecology (World Soundscape Project)

Brahms's 'Ein deutsches Requiem' contains how many movements?

7

Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet features how many total movements?

5

Which Robert Schumann pen name represented his bold, opinionated, and energetic voice?

Florestan

Clara Schumann's 'Liebst du um Schönheit' utilizes which specific musical form?

Modified strophic form

In Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto Op. 64, which woodwind instruments introduce the serene second theme in G major?

Clarinets and flutes

Wagner's 'Die Walküre' is the second opera in a cycle of four titled _____.

Der Ring des Nibelungen

Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo and Juliet Overture' is categorized as what specific orchestral genre?

Concert overture

Mahler's Symphony No. 4 uses a folk poem from which collection of anonymous German folk poems?

Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Ravel's 'Jeux d’eau' was completed while he was a student of which composer?

Gabriel Fauré

What was the name of the progressive artists' group Schoenberg and Viñes belonged to in Paris?

Les apaches (The Hooligans)

Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' is scored for a solo female voice and how many instrumentalists?

5 (playing 8 instruments)

The instrumentation of Messiaen's 'Quatuor pour la fin du Temps' was determined by what factor?

The available musicians in the prison camp

Which electronic instrument did Messiaen feature in works like 'Fête des Belles Eaux'?

Ondes Martenot

Ligeti's technique of weaving separate melodic strands into a dense fabric is called _____.

micropolyphony

What specific percussion instruments open Copland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man'?

Timpani, bass drum, and tam-tam

Which British rock group released a rock arrangement of Copland's 'Fanfare' in 1977?

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Jean Coulthard was part of a triumvirate of powerful female Canadian composers alongside Violet Archer and _____.

Barbara Pentland

What term describes the motoric drive and pulse characteristic of Steve Reich’s trademark style?

Reich’s trademark pulse

How many sonatas and interludes make up the complete cycle of Cage's 'Sonatas and Interludes'?

16 sonatas and 4 interludes