Suggested Age: 14+ ALAN’S ALPHABET QUIZ - CLASSICAL MUSIC

Summer Fun Learning with

Holst

Research the answers to these tricky music questions.

Each answer begins with the letter indicated.

You could use the quiz to challenge any music buff’s

you know.

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A) Founder of the Suisse Romande Orchestra

B) Composer of the opera “The Bohemian Girl”

C) Oratorio by Haydn

D) Symphony and Sonata by Liszt

E) Concerto by Stravinsky written for Benny Goodman

F) An “Entertainment” by Walton

G) Danish composer of eight symphonies

H) Composer of “The Children of Lir”

I) “Terrible” character in Rimsky-Korsakov opera

J) Original performer of Brahm’s Violin Concerto

K) Opera in which “la Calinda” appears

L) Holst’s first operetta

M) Composer of the opera “The Coronation of Poppea”

N) Not Sharp or Flat

O) Opera by Weber

P) Clowns!

Q) Composer of the “Children’s Overture

R) Also known as “The Witch’s Curse”

S) Rhapsody by Holst

T) Spider’s dance

U) Small guitar like instrument

V) Composer of the opera “Stiffelio”

W) Composer of the “Morike” songs

X) Patrick Moore wrote a concerto for this instrument

Y) Song by Paul McCartney scored for String Quartet, Guitar and Voice

Z) Composer of the “Lyric” symphony

The Children of Lir (1914) by John Duncan