THE QUIZ

You will need to be well primed for this month’s quiz

1. Premiered at London’s Alhambra Theatre in 1919, The Threecornered Hat is a ballet by which Spanish composer?

2. Based on his song Die Forelle, for which five instruments is Schubert’s Trout Quintet scored?

3. Two of the five movements of which composer’s Seventh Symphony, premiered in Prague in 1908, are titled ‘Nachtmusik’?

4. Which violinist was just 13 years old when she made her concerto debut, playing Mozart with the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan at the 1977 Salzburg Whitsun Festival?

5. Which Austrian composer’s fixation with the number 23 – possibly the result of having had an asthma attack on 23 July 1908 at the age of 23 – featured in the structure of much of his music?

6. By what nickname is Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, his longest and last, regularly known?

7. The composer pictured above was 103 when he died in 2012, having continued to work right until his final months. Who is he? 8. Opening with the line ‘Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht’ (‘Be still, stop chattering’), which comic secular cantata by JS Bach has the catalogue number BWV 211?

9. Time for some maths: how many of Joseph Haydn’s symphonies (Nos 1, 2 etc) are prime numbers?

10. Which former British prime minister published a book called Music: a joy for life in 1976?

See p95 for answers