Music Trivia Quiz

[Peter]

Originally posted by Amalie:

Richard Wagner once took a fellow composer to hear one of his operas . During the overture he leaned over to his friend and said; I'm terribly sorry, old chap, but I am afriad I stole this bit from you.
His friend replied, "Don't worry, at least now someone will hear it".

Who was Wagner's stocial friend?

I seem to recall this story in reference to Franz Liszt.

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'Man know thyself'

[urtextmeister]

Originally posted by Peter:
I can only think of Dussek who ended up an alcoholic.

No. Another hint:
There is one famous tune by this composer that appears in almost every fancy cocktail party in every movie ever made.

[Chaszz]

Originally posted by spaceray:
Bach?

No, Mozart.

[Amalie]

Which Scandinavian composer had to be dragged out of the Inn, usually by his wife and forced to compose?

[spaceray]

Originally posted by urtextmeister:
No. Another hint:
There is one famous tune by this composer that appears in almost every fancy cocktail party in every movie ever made.

Urtext,
Could you answer this one now,it is really driving me crazy,I'm searching all over Thayer but so far I don't have a clue who this might be.

[Peter]

Originally posted by Amalie:

Which Scandinavian composer had to be dragged out of the Inn, usually by his wife and forced to compose?

Sibelius?

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'Man know thyself'

[Amalie]

Originally posted by Peter:
Sibelius?

Quite impressive Peter!

I was interested to read that Sibelius never once touched pen to music paper in the last 28 years of his life. Sibelius seemed to have made up his mind that he had nothing important to say anymore.

[Amalie]

In Scrabian's Prometheus Symphony, which instrument represented man, while the orchestra represented the Cosmos?

[Sorrano]

Originally posted by Amalie:

Quite impressive Peter!

I was interested to read that Sibelius never once touched pen to music paper in the last 28 years of his life. Sibelius seemed to have made up his mind that he had nothing important to say anymore.

I thought that was in protest to the directions music was going (with the avant garde movements, etc.)

[Joy]

Originally posted by spaceray:

Urtext,
Could you answer this one now,it is really driving me crazy,I'm searching all over Thayer but so far I don't have a clue who this might be.

I'm still waiting for an answer to this question 'In the opening of the Beethoven movie Inmortal beloved there is a mistake with the funeral scene'. mrfixit??



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'Truth and beauty joined'

[Chaszz]

Originally posted by Amalie:

Quite impressive Peter!

I was interested to read that Sibelius never once touched pen to music paper in the last 28 years of his life. Sibelius seemed to have made up his mind that he had nothing important to say anymore.

Or maybe his wife got tired of dragging him out of the inn?

[Chaszz]

What German composer likewise had to be pushed by his wife to compose?

[urtextmeister]

Spaceray,

Sorry. I kind of forgot I never gave the answer.
Luigi Boccherini was the toast of Paris and elsewhere, but after moving to Madrid, his family died, nobody was interested in his music and he was as poor as a church mouse.

[urtextmeister]

Originally posted by Chaszz:
What German composer likewise had to be pushed by his wife to compose?

Wolfgang (an Austrian) was often prodded by Constanza. Could this be who you are getting at...?

[Peter]

Originally posted by urtextmeister:
Spaceray,

Sorry. I kind of forgot I never gave the answer.
Luigi Boccherini was the toast of Paris and elsewhere, but after moving to Madrid, his family died, nobody was interested in his music and he was as poor as a church mouse.

Your question was a little misleading as he was more a contemporary of Haydn than Beethoven!

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'Man know thyself'