Welcome to the weekly Which Composer...?-competition.  Here are the
guidelines:

A major composer is wanted as answer to each question.  Each right composer
gives one point.  In most of questions the answer (which is the composer)
might be extended with the circumstances, which gives additional points if
correct.  Positive judgement is being done by the jury (which is me) and
the jurys desicions can't be questioned.  The same composer can appear in
more than one question.  Some questions may be a little bit humourous or
quirky, but with some imagination all may be solved.  The last question is
intended to be a little more quirky than the others.  Thats the qestion
which will make one of those who have all the other questions right, win.
In the last question many composer might be a right answer, so drive hard
in finding out good arguments for the composer who has your vote in that
one.  Else I will be ready to give 2 points on each question.  One for
composer one for some info on the circumstances that show you are not just
guessing.

I will regard all replies to the lists as intents to compete, but most
preferrably send the answers to me privately:  [log in to unmask]

I will set the deadline two days from when this my post was posted, and
one winner can look forward on a fantastic price.  Here is the quiz now:

1.  Which composer intended to compose a "better version" of Beethovens 9,
and came up with a symphony that became very popular and frequently played
throughout the 19th century - the work now almost forgotten?

2.  Which composer lost a job as organist when he refused to marry another
composers daughter?

3.  Which composer composed concertos for all the orchestras instruments?

4.  Which composer composed "Sinfonia Domestica" and why did he end up in
court?

5.  Which composer played timpany as first instrument?

6.  Which composers masterwork was called "A madmans meaningsless
scribbling"?

7.  Which composer was suspected for murdering his wife?

8.  Which composer should have drunken a glass of water lesser?

9.  Which composer died from conducting too much?

10.  Which composer played so beautifully on a churchorgan that the pius
people who entered the church fell on their knees in the belief God was
talking to them?

11.  Which composer lost 4/7 of his production (38 opus) when his house was
bombed?

12.  Which composer composed an opera about Hitler, and whats the name of
the opera?

13.  Which composer seems to have had the best muscial memory when he could
play any part of Niebelungens Ring he was asked for on the piano after
having heard it once in orchestral performance? (Note:  not Wagner)

14.  Which composer traveled to Scandinavia to get operated for cancer in
fear of the risk to get a jewish doctor?

15.  Which composer was Ferruccio Busonis best friend, with whom he used to
walk from pub to pub, from restaurant to restaurant the whole days long?

16.  Which composer did Einstein claim was "world historys greatest
genious"?

17.  Which composer used to compose in the bath, and when someone rang the
doorbell, he (at least once) went up and opened the door without putting a
single piece of cloth on?

18.  Which composer invented the mass production?

19.  Which composer laughed and farted at Sjostakovitj and how?

20.  Which composer "snatched the thunder & lighting from the sky and the
crown from the tyranns"?

21.  Which composer beated all wonderchildren with learning playing the
piano before reaching the age of 3?

22.  Which composer played piano so much as kid as he got psychially
exhausted and was forbidden to play by his father?

23.  Which composer had such an odd name that he felt forced to compose
under alias and What was his original name?

24.  Which composer started at age 27 to write a diary for future
biographers?

25.  Which composer put the audience in the center?

Mats Norrman
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