THE QUIZ

It’s time to lock yourself away with this month’s quiz

1. Which composer was jailed for a month in 1717 by his employer, the Duke of Saxe-weimar, to stop him from taking a better-paid job?

2. Which opera, premiered in

1805, features a famous ‘Prisoners Chorus’, sung when inmates of a political prison enjoy a brief moment out of the cells?

3. Imprisoned and soon to face the firing squad, the above opera character laments his fate with the aria ‘E lucevan le stelle’. Name the character and the opera.

4. Which British composer’s refusal to carry out non-combatant duties in World War II led to a two-month spell in Wormwood Scrubs prison? 5. Name the Verdi operas in which a) the title character is entombed alive in a vault with lover Radames; b) on greeting the title character in his cell, the Marquis of Posa is shot dead; c) Azucena, a gypsy, is forced to watch her son Manrico’s execution from her prison window. 6. Which famous chamber work was first played to prisoners of war in Stalag VIII A on 15 January 1941? 7. Which French composer’s spat with a critic in 1917 led to him being sentenced to eight days in jail?

8. Which composer was briefly incarcerated in 1820 when, the worst for wear, he was arrested in Baden for acting suspiciously?

9. The Prison is a 1931 work by which composer, who herself had served two months in Holloway Prison in 1912?

10. Setting letters by Sam Melville, one of the leaders of 1971’s Attica Prison Riots, Coming Together is a minimalist chamber work by who? See p164 for answers