MusicWeb and ClassicalLink are offering the following joint quiz compiled by
Dr David C F Wright
You need to submit your answers on-line
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/wrightquiz.htm

First prize: 2 CDs of your choice + 2 CDs from the list below
Second prize: 1 CD of your choice + 1 CD from the list below
Third Prize:1 CD from the list below

Prizes to be chosen from the following CDs
(all of which can be sampled)

Martinu Chamber Music (Timpani)
Mozart Serenades for Wind Instruments (Calliope)
Poulenc Songs (Harmonic Classics)
Medieval Music (Arcana)
Own choice CDs are supplied by MusicWeb ~

Rules and conditions:
1) This quiz is open to everybody and the closing date for entries is
    31st December 2002.
2) Own choice CD prizes are limited to single standard priced CDs
3) Len Mullenger's decision is final

The Questions

1.  Which composer was first to use the term Enigma in the title of a
composition?

2.  Haydn was not the father of the string quartet.  Who was?

3.  Who composed the first French violin concerto?

4.  Which composer of the 18th century wrote the most symphonies?  It
wasn't Haydn!

5.  Name both a French and an American composer who were both murdered
and give the dates.

6.  Name a composer who was a murderer.

7.  Who edited for publication the correspondence between Balakirev and
Tchaikovsky?

8.  Name a French composer who was an ambulance driver at the Front in
World War One.

9.  Which composer wrote an opera about baseball?

10. Name the German Composer who wrote a scherzo in E flat minor for the
piano.

11.  Kochel.  is to Mozart as .............  is to Boccherini

12 Which British composer insisted that any woman who played his concerto
must always wear navy blue knickers?

13.  Which composer's work was debased into the musical Kismet?

14.  Which famous composer was obsessed by bodily functions and kept a
record of people farting, dates, times etc?

15.  What is a minor third up from G?

16.  What conductor said that a conductor's task was to do exactly what
the composer wrote in every detail?

17.  What is a bleeding chunk in music?

18.  What nationality was the great Arnold Dolmetsch?

19.  Name two instruments that would never use the bass clef.

20.  What do Chopin and Wagner have in common - but it is not a musical
matter.

Len Mullenger
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