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Mozart Quiz: Test Your Composer Knowledge

Welcome to the Mozart Quiz, where the harmonies of history and musical genius collide! Test Your knowledge on composers, Composing of music and the knowledge of a particular...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 682 | Last updated: May 23, 2024

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At what age did Mozart compose his first symphony?

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ACT Reading Test 1 Passage 3 Humanities

Explore the profound impact of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on music and civilization in this ACT Reading Test. Assess your understanding of how Mozart\u2019s genius transcends mere...

Questions: 11 | Attempts: 1419 | Last updated: Mar 19, 2023

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5 10 15 - 20 - 25 30 35 -- 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 Passage Ill HUMANITIES: This passage is adapted from Mozart: The Man and the Artist.f, as Revealed in His Own Words, by Friedrich Kerst, and translated by Henry Edward Krehbiel in 1905. The German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart {1756-1791) was not only a musical genius but was also one of the pre-eminent geniuses of the Western world. He defined in his music a system of musical thought and an entire slate of mind that were unlike any previously experienced. A true child prodigy, he began composing al age live and rapidly developed his unmistakable style; by eighteen he was composing works capable of altering the mind-states of entire civilizations. Indeed, he and his predecessor Bach accomplished the Olympian feat of adding to the human concepts of civility and civilization. So these two were not just musical geniuses, but geniuses of the humanities Mozart's music embodies civilization. It encom passes all that is humane about an idealized civiliza- tion. And it probably was Mozart's main purpose to create and propagate a concept of a great civilization through his music. He wanted to show his fellow Europeans, with their garbage-polluted city streets. their violent leaders, and their stifling, nonhumane bureaucracies, new ideas on how to run their civilizations properly. He wanted them to hear and feel a sense of civilized movement. of the musical expressions of man moving as he would if uphold- ing the highest values of idealized societies. Mozart was called a Child of the Sun. Filled with a humor truly divine, he strolled freely through life, oblivious to the concerns of daily living. Music was his talisman, his magic flute with which he could exorcise all the petty terrors that beset him. Has such a man and artist-one who was completely resolved in his works. and therefore still appeals with all his glorious qualities after the lapse of a century-has Mozart still something to say to us? Much; very much. Through his music we are reminded of the man who could not forget the merry tune of the forest bird which he had heard as a boy. We gladly permit ourselves to be led, occasionally, out of the rude realities that surround us. into a beautiful world that knows no care but lies forever bathed in the sunshine of cloudless happiness. a world in which every loveliness dreamed of by fancy has taken life and form. It is because of this that we make pilgrimages to the masterpieces of the arts, that we give heed to the speech of Schiller, and listen to the music of Mozart. When wearied by the stress of life, we gladly rush to Mozart that he may tell us stories of that land of beauty and convince us that there are other and better occupations than the worries and combats of the fleeting hour. This is what Mozart has to tell us today, He has an individual mission to fulfill which will keep him immortal. There is something like the glory of daybreak in the tones of Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute; il is wafted towards us like the morning breeze which dispels the shadows and invokes the sun. Mozart remains ever young: one reason is because death laid hold of him in the middle of his career. While all the wo-rid was still gazing expect- antly upon him, he vanished from the earth and left no hope deceived. As the Gem1an thinks of Beet- hoven when he speaks the word symphony, so the name of Mozart in his mind is associated with the conception of things youthful, bright. and sunny. Nineteenth-century German composer Robert Schu- mann was fully conscious of a purpose when he called out. "Do not put Beethoven in the hands of young people too early: refresh and strengthen them with the fresh and lusty Mozart." Another time he wrote: “Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?" In the mind of the great philosopher, Goethe. genius was summed up in the name of Mozart. Goethe spoke these significant words: “What else is genius than that productive power through which deeds arise and are lasting? All the creations of Mozart are of this class: within them there is a generative force which is transplanted from genera- tion to generation. and is not likely soon to be exhausted or devoured.”

How Well Do You Know Beethoven?

Everyone seems to be talking about, playing, and listening to Beethoven this year. Take this quiz and have some Beethofun!

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 3448 | Last updated: Mar 19, 2023

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Why is this year so special with regards to this great composer?

It is the 200th anniversary of his birth.

It is the 200th anniversary of his death.

It is the 250th anniversary of his birth.

It is the 250th anniversary of his death.

How Well You Know About The American Composer Aaron Copland?

American composer, song writer, composition teacher, and conductor, Aaron Copland was born on November 14, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York. Get to discover how much you know about this...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 127 | Last updated: Nov 16, 2023

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All but one of these are members of the group formed by Aaron and his younger contemporaries?

Virgil Thomson

Roger Sessions

Roy Harris

Walter Thomson

Mozart Quiz: Test Your Composer Knowledge

Welcome to the Mozart Quiz, where the harmonies of history and musical genius collide! Test Your knowledge on composers, Composing of music and the knowledge of a particular...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 682 | Last updated: May 23, 2024

Sample Question
At what age did Mozart compose his first symphony?

7

8

9

12

Are You Familiar With RD Burman?

Rahul Dev Burman popularly known as RD Burman was an influential Indian music director and film score composer. He was born 27 June 1939 and died 4 January 1994. He was nicknamed...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 161 | Last updated: Mar 15, 2023

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RD Burman was born in the year ....

1930

1939

1999

1901

How Much You Know Mozart? Quiz

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In which year was Mozart born?

Who catalogued Mozart's works?

How many symphonies did Mozart write?

Which of the following names have no immediate association with Mozart?

Mozart developed his musical career despite his father's objections.

Name one librettist who collaborated with Mozart.

In which operatic genre did Mozart not participate?

In which genre did Mozart most often appear as composer and soloist?

Mozart Quiz: Test Your Composer Knowledge

ACT Reading Test 1 Passage 3 Humanities

How Well Do You Know Beethoven?

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