Crossword and Quiz

It’s time to put your classical music knowledge to the test…

1. Who, in 1705, set off from Arnstadt on a 250-mile walk to Lübeck to hear the great Buxtehude play the organ?

2. And who, on 30 September 1853, turned up at the house of Clara and Robert Schumann, the latter of whom described him as ‘a genius’? 3. The eponymous hero of which Wagner opera makes his initial appearance standing in a boat drawn by a swan?

4. Published in 1612, The Silver Swan is a famous madrigal by which English composer?

5. A patent for which musical instrument was granted on

28 June 1846?

6. Who, on a visit to Senegal in 1990, was inspired by a local feature to compose his orchestral work The Rose Lake?

7. With which instrument to you primarily associate the great

Italian virtuoso Giovanni Bottesini (1821-89)?

8. Composed in 1962, Ligeti’s

Poème Symphonique is scored for 100… what?

9. With the Russian national anthem banned from the recent Tokyo Olympic games, a moment from which work was played instead to honour gold medal-winning Russian Olympic Committee athletes on the podium? 10. And talking of Russian sport, name the soprano pictured above, singing at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup in Moscow in 2018?

See p110 for answers