Music Trivia Quiz

[Amalie]

Mozart liked to have fun, he wrote a lot of German dances and one of them set a festive wintry tone by using something that would (perhaps) have been found on a horse rather than an orchestra..

What were these unusual Instruments?

[Rod]

Originally posted by Amalie:


Mozart liked to have fun, he wrote a lot of German dances and one of them set a festive wintry tone by using something that would (perhaps) have been found on a horse rather than an orchestra..

What were these unusual Instruments?

Ah yes I know this one, Mozart's famous dances for two stirrups and a saddle in C major.


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[Peter]

Originally posted by Amalie:


Mozart liked to have fun, he wrote a lot of German dances and one of them set a festive wintry tone by using something that would (perhaps) have been found on a horse rather than an orchestra..

What were these unusual Instruments?

I think you are referring to the sleigh bells used in the trio of K.605,nr3. In the second trio of K.601,nr1 he uses the hurdy-gurdy.



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[Gurn Blanston]

Originally posted by Peter:
I think you are referring to the sleigh bells used in the trio of K.605,nr3. In the second trio of K.601,nr1 he uses the hurdy-gurdy.

Ahhh, Peter, you beat me to it! If you are not correct, then Amalie has buffaloed me yet again! ;-)
Regards,
Gurn

[Amalie]

Well that is amazing! Peter is correct of course, perhaps a little too easy for such learned correspondants.

So here is another composer poser:

What baroque composer wrote instructions for his violinists to play a movement of this last of four concerti as if their "teeth were chattering from the winter's wind"?

[Cocchini]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amalie:
[B]
Well that is amazing! Peter is correct of course, perhaps a little too easy for such learned correspondants.

So here is another composer poser:

What baroque composer wrote instructions for his violinists to play a movement of this last of four concerti as if their "teeth were chattering from the winter's wind"?

Vivaldi, FOUR SEASONS, Winter. I think the first movement.

[Joy]

Originally posted by Cocchini:

Vivaldi, FOUR SEASONS, Winter. I think the first movement.[/B]

You beat me to it, Cocchini! That would have been my guess!

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[spaceray]

Henry Purcell for the frost scene in The
Indian Queen.Actually no self respecting opera of this time would be without a" frost"
scene.

[Amalie]

You are all too quick for me!
Hopefully others will be able to pose more trickier brain teasers.

Here is another:

In this Symphony, Beethoven adds three instruments to the orchestra for the first time.
1. What are the instruments?

2. What is the Symphony?



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[Sorrano]

Originally posted by Amalie:
You are all too quick for me!
Hopefully others will be able to pose more trickier brain teasers.

Here is another:

In this Symphony, Beethoven adds three instruments to the orchestra for the first time.
1. What are the instruments?

2. What is the Symphony?

[This message has been edited by Amalie (edited September 08, 2003).]

1. Trombones, Piccolo Flute, and Contrabasson.

2. Symphony No. 5.

[Peter]

Originally posted by Amalie:
You are all too quick for me!
Hopefully others will be able to pose more trickier brain teasers.

OK Here goes - who amongst Beethoven's associates was Heinrich Heine referring to when he described him in 1841 as "a black beanpole with a horrible white tie and a funereal expression, who presented himself everywhere as 'l'ami de Beethoven' and bored everyone to death with his fatuous chatter"?

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[Joy]

Originally posted by Peter:
OK Here goes - who amongst Beethoven's associates was Heinrich Heine referring to when he described him in 1841 as "a black beanpole with a horrible white tie and a funereal expression, who presented himself everywhere as 'l'ami de Beethoven' and bored everyone to death with his fatuous chatter"?

This has got to be quick as I'm off to work so I didn't have time to look this one up but from your description of the person off the top of my head, I would say Schindler due to the fact that I have seen his picture and he was rather tall and skinny and as for the chatter part, I think he was a bit of a chatterbox?!! I could be wrong!!

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[Peter]

Originally posted by Joy:
This has got to be quick as I'm off to work so I didn't have time to look this one up but from your description of the person off the top of my head, I would say Schindler due to the fact that I have seen his picture and he was rather tall and skinny and as for the chatter part, I think he was a bit of a chatterbox?!! I could be wrong!!

You're quite right Joy - I thought that Heine describes him very well judging from the photo! Even Beethoven regarded him with contempt - rightly judging by the man's actions post Beethoven's death which included not only adding 150 entries into the conversation books and destroying many others, but also profiting from their sale having had a dubious claim to their ownership in the first place.

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[spaceray]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peter:
[B] Beethoven regarded him with contempt - rightly judging by the man's actions post Beethoven's death which included not only adding 150 entries into the conversation books and destroying many others, but also profiting from their sale having had a dubious claim to their ownership in the first place.[Quote]

Do I understand correctly that Schindler was Beethoven's "faithful factotum" What was their relationship. Did Schindler inhierit the conversation books? Did he take them? I'm only on Chapter Two of Thayer.

[Joy]

[quote]Originally posted by spaceray:

Do I understand correctly that Schindler was Beethoven's "faithful factotum" What was their relationship. Did Schindler inhierit the conversation books? Did he take them? I'm only on Chapter Two of Thayer.

What do I win? I got the question right! Ha!

Seriously though, SpaceRay, here's what I found on Schindler and the infamous conversation books: "After Beethoven's death Schindler quickly took possession of approximately 400 books which he used for his studies on Beethoven's biography. He numbered the pages and made comments in red pencil. In 1843 he began negotiations with the Royal Library in Berlin which led to the purchase of Schindler's Beethoven estate, which included 136 Conversation books. 264 were missing which Schindler had held back."
Beethoven and Schindler had a falling out after the debut performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Beethoven accusing Schindler of a financial mix up concerning the concert. Beethoven once said of him, "I have never, on God's earth, met a bigger wretch." However, they did make up after Beethoven's nephew's near suicide attempt and Schindler did return fulfilling his duties up to the Master's death.
I wonder if there's a book filled with the conversation books entries. I'd like to read that one and how are you enjoying Thayer's book. I really like it. Lots of information. Sort of an A-Z book.

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