Classical Music Trivia Game!

[Septomor]

Scyberpunk did get it right, I'm sure he didn't know 100% sure, so he was waiting for my response, if he doesn't respond withen 24 hours of his own post we'll continue with your question Amphion.

[XcyberpunkX]

Sorry guys, i wasn't sure if i answered correctly lol...
here's the question: In 1903, the Symphony Hall in Cleveland was to be dedicated. The musical director there wanted a famous musician to dedicate the hall. Joachim was one of his choices, but turned down the invitation. Why and which famous composer end up getting dedicated the hall?

[Septomor]

XcyberpunkX

Sorry guys, i wasn't sure if i answered correctly lol...
here's the question: In 1903, the Symphony Hall in Cleveland was to be dedicated. The musical director there wanted a famous musician to dedicate the hall. Joachim was one of his choices, but turned down the invitation. Why and which famous composer end up getting dedicated the hall?

I checked and everywhere I find out that the symphony hall in Cleveland was built around 1920. Could you elaborate? Maybe it's not really a famous symphony hall? In fact the orchestra was founded in 1918...

[XcyberpunkX]

sorry Semptomor...
I got the question from somewhere online...
and there wasn't other information that i can provide...
if you would like, i can post out the answer and you guys can go alone with Amphion's question

[Amphion]

Not having heard anything for a few days, I'm going to go ahead and re-post:

Which symphony by an English composer was inspired by music they had recently composed for a film? (Giving the composer would make the answer absurdly easy to find)

[Septomor]

I'm gonna take a guess, Malcolm Arnold's 8th symphony?

[ludaym]

J love old classical music!

[Amphion]

Septomor

I'm gonna take a guess, Malcolm Arnold's 8th symphony?

Hmm.... I suppose it technically counts, but it's not what I had in mind. This symphony is named, in part, after the subject of the film. (That's a hint, by the by; this composer loved to name his symphonies)

[Le Aristocrat]

How about Ralph Vaughan William's 7th Symphony. I believe that it is nicknamed the Sinfonia Arctica, or something of the like, and it was used for some sort of heroic, snow-themed movie...

If I'm correct...

What is the difference in the way that Chopin arranged his Preludes in comparison to Bach's Preludes and Fugues from The Well Tempered Klavier?

[Amphion]

Yes! Ralph Vaughan Williams named his 7th Symphony the Sinfonia Antarctica because most of the music in it came from a movie about the Shackleton Expedition to Antarctica that he had just scored.

(I know the answer to yours, but I'm going to wait a day or two to see if anyone else can get it...)

[Wings]

Don't have to look this one up. XD Chopin's etudes are arranged in circle of fifths, while Bach's preludes and fugues are in chromatic order.

How did Saint-Saens and Faure first meet?

[Le Aristocrat]

Did they meet at the Ecole Niedermeyer, with Faure as a student and Saint-Saens as his teacher?

What is the opus number of Chopin's Nocturnes in C minor (not the posthumous one!) and F sharp minor?

[Wings]

Opus 48 No. 1 & 2, respectively.

In the middle section of what piano piece by Debussy did the composer make fun of Wagner?

[Le Aristocrat]

That would be Golliwogg's Cake Walk from Children's Corner!

At which prestigious music school did Gustav Holst study?

[Amphion]

He studied at the Royal College of Music in London.

Although their dates of birth are separated by more than 220 years, both of these composers wrote a cycle of preludes and fugues for the piano. In addition to this, both composers had four-note "motto" themes that represented their names encoded in musical notation. Name the composers.