Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Quiz
A) The Rite of Spring B) Romeo and Juliet C) The Sleeping Beauty D) Swan Lake
A) Berlioz B) Liszt C) Glinka D) Beethoven
A) Igor Stravinsky B) Nadezhda von Meck C) Mikhail Glinka D) Herman Laroche
A) Russian National School B) Moscow Conservatory C) The Five Academy D) Saint Petersburg Conservatory
A) Stravinsky and Glinka B) Liszt and Berlioz C) Beethoven and Mozart D) Bach and Brahms
A) Glinka B) Stravinsky C) Liszt D) Laroche
A) His Russian heritage B) His professionalism and high standards C) His popularity in the West D) His use of folk songs
A) Solomon Volkov B) Herman Laroche C) Nadezhda von Meck D) Anthony Holden
A) Igor Stravinsky B) Mikhail Glinka C) Tchaikovsky D) Herman Laroche
A) The Sleeping Beauty B) Symphony No. 6 C) The Rite of Spring D) Romeo and Juliet
A) The sole bridge B) A forgotten relic C) A secondary influence D) A major barrier
A) With an immediacy and directness B) Because he rejected all Western practices C) Because of his political status D) Due to his use of complex mathematical theory
A) Silence B) Improvisation C) Repetition D) Dissonance
A) Sequences B) Modulation C) Phrasing D) Doubling
A) The volume becomes too quiet B) The melody remains static C) The tempo becomes too fast D) The harmony becomes chaotic
A) Avoiding key modulations B) Ignoring rhythmic activity C) Treating elements as one integrated unit D) Using only one instrument
A) Richard Taruskin B) Martin Cooper C) Rimsky-Korsakov D) Brown
A) Martin Cooper B) Glinka C) Rimsky-Korsakov D) Brown
A) Dry and academic B) Sensual opulence C) Minimalistic and stark D) Aggressively discordant
A) Fourth Symphony B) Second Symphony C) First Symphony D) Third Symphony
A) Rimsky-Korsakov B) Brown C) Richard Taruskin D) Martin Cooper
A) Germanic B) French C) Italian D) Slavic
A) Doubling B) Modulation C) Phasing D) Sequencing
A) A generalized orchestral sonority B) A loss of tonal center C) A reduction in volume D) A focus on soloistic performance
A) By making subtle changes in rhythm or phrasing B) By stopping the music abruptly C) By using silence D) By increasing the volume drastically
A) 43 B) 63 C) 50 D) 53
A) Volkovo Cemetery B) Smolensky Cemetery C) Tikhvin Cemetery D) Novodevichy Cemetery
A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart B) Ludwig van Beethoven C) Mikhail Glinka D) Robert Schumann
A) Pneumonia B) Heart failure C) Poisoning D) Cholera
A) Franz Liszt B) Robert Schumann C) Adolphe Adam D) Richard Wagner
A) Léo Delibes B) Adolphe Adam C) Franz Lachner D) Georges Bizet
A) The Pearl Fishers B) Ivan IV C) The Fair Maid of Perth D) Carmen
A) 6 November 1893 B) 6 November 1890 C) 20 December 1893 D) 12 October 1893
A) Little Russian symphony B) The Queen of Spades C) Variations on a Rococo Theme D) Vakula the Smith
A) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov B) Mily Balakirev C) Alexander Borodin D) Anton Rubinstein
A) Léo Delibes B) Franz Lachner C) Adolphe Adam D) Georges Bizet
A) That he was murdered B) That he faked his death C) That he died of natural causes D) That he committed suicide
A) It was stolen by a rival B) It was lost in a fire C) It was never finished D) The composer destroyed it
A) Cui B) Dostoevsky C) Rimsky-Korsakov D) Mussorgsky
A) A libretto by Sergei Rachinskii B) The memoirs of Alexander II C) Nikolai Gogol's Christmas Eve D) A play by Alexander Ostrovsky
A) Vakula the Smith B) The Oprichnik C) Eugene Onegin D) Undina
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky B) Alexander Ostrovsky C) Eugène Scribe D) Nikolai Gogol
A) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky B) Mily Balakirev C) Anton Rubinstein D) Modest Mussorgsky
A) Mighty Handful B) Russian Conservatory C) Musical Society D) Western Reformers
A) The Mighty Handful B) The Conservatory Symphony C) The Jurisprudence Symphony D) Little Russian
A) The School of Jurisprudence B) The Mighty Handful C) The Russian Musical Society D) A nationalist opera house
A) Mussorgsky B) Rimsky-Korsakov C) Borodin D) Cui
A) Civil attaché B) Titular counselor C) Junior clerk D) Senior assistant
A) The Mikhailovsky Palace B) Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy C) The Russian Musical Society D) A tribute to the Tsar
A) Bayreuth B) Moscow C) Pavlovsk Park D) Saint Petersburg
A) 50 rubles B) 200 rubles C) 100 rubles D) 25 rubles
A) Nikolai Zaremba B) Anton Rubinstein C) Johann Strauss II D) Nikolai Rubinstein
A) Poor orchestration B) Lack of musicality C) Bad staging D) Overrated status
A) Der Ring des Nibelungen B) Ode to Joy C) The Voyevoda D) First Symphony
A) Moscow B) Saint Petersburg C) Kyiv D) Votkinsk
A) Miliukova B) d'Assier C) von Meck D) Davydova
A) Fanny Dürbach B) Antonina Miliukova C) Maria Palchikova D) Nadezhda von Meck
A) Six B) Five C) Four D) Seven
A) Military engineer B) Physician C) Professional pianist D) Civil servant
A) Modest Tchaikovsky B) Nikolai Rubinstein C) Anatoly Tchaikovsky D) Vladimir Davydov
A) Eugene Onegin B) First Piano Concerto C) The Nutcracker D) 1812 Overture
A) Fortepiano B) Orchestrion C) Harmonium D) Cembalo
A) The Five B) The Powerless C) The Saint Petersburg Seven D) The Nationalist Trio
A) Swan Lake B) The Nutcracker C) Cherevichki D) Eugene Onegin
A) The Mariinsky Theatre was under renovation B) The Mariinsky Theatre was being closed down C) Tchaikovsky's music was replacing Italian opera D) Tchaikovsky preferred the acoustic quality of the Bolshoi
A) Sergei Taneyev B) César Cui C) Ivan Vsevolozhsky D) Antonín Dvořák
A) César Cui B) Jules Massenet C) Sergei Taneyev D) Ivan Vsevolozhsky
A) 1891–1892 B) 1887–1888 C) 1889–1890 D) 1884–1885
A) Brahms B) Tchaikovsky himself C) Rimsky-Korsakov D) Sergei Rachmaninoff
A) Cherevichki B) Eugene Onegin C) The Queen of Spades D) Hamlet
A) Financial instability B) Fear of public speaking C) Unsocial behavior D) Life-long stage fright
A) 1891 B) 1885 C) 1889 D) 1888
A) Hamlet B) Festival Coronation March C) Cherevichki D) Orchestral Suite No. 3
A) Mariinsky Theatre B) Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre C) Carnegie Hall D) Moscow Conservatory
A) The Five B) The Russian Symphony Society C) Belyayev circle D) The Imperial Conservatory Group
A) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov B) Anatoly Lyadov C) Mark Antokolsky D) Alexander Glazunov
A) Sergey Kireyev B) Antonina Miliukova C) Vladimir Davydov D) Nadezhda von Meck
A) Modest Tchaikovsky B) David Brown C) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov D) Alexander Poznansky
A) Merchant B) Government Official C) Professional Soldier D) Composer
A) Indifferent B) Less comfortable C) More hostile D) More at ease
A) They were burned by Tchaikovsky himself B) They were lost in a fire C) They were immediately published D) They were censored
A) A disaster B) A happy long-term partnership C) A quiet separation D) A professional collaboration
A) 37 B) 45 C) 21 D) 30
A) Joseph Haydn B) Rudolph Kündinger C) The New Grove D) Harold C. Schonberg
A) Russian tableaux B) Whole-tone scale C) String quartet D) Sonata form
A) A member of The Five B) Rudolph Kündinger C) Harold C. Schonberg D) The New Grove
A) Whole-tone scale B) Symmetrical melodic shapes C) Western-style stasis D) Sonata form modulation
A) Modulation B) Repetition C) Inertia D) Stasis
A) A purely experimental, avant-garde meter B) An inconsistent, fluctuating meter C) A meter based on silence and pauses D) A firm, regular meter
A) Chekhov B) Pushkin C) Tolstoy D) Dostoevsky
A) A technical study of acoustics B) A psychological mirror C) A political manifesto D) A religious experience
A) Formalism B) Neoclassicism C) Romantic excess D) Passé-ism
A) Marius Petipa B) Nikolai Rubinstein C) Leopold Auer D) Wilhelm Fitzenhagen
A) Ivan Vsevolozhsky B) Leopold Auer C) Marius Petipa D) Wilhelm Fitzenhagen
A) Removed all melodic elements B) Increased structural complexity C) Abandoned 18th-century settings D) Minimized rhythmic subtleties
A) Intellectually rigorous B) Hollow C) Technically flawed D) Revolutionary
A) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky B) Leonid Sabaneyev C) Julius Block D) Thomas Edison
A) Julius Block B) Thomas Edison C) Leonid Sabaneyev D) The Russian Conservatory
A) Julius Block B) Leonid Sabaneyev C) Thomas Edison D) Tchaikovsky himself
A) Honored B) Indifferent C) Uncomfortable D) Enthusiastic |
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