Quiz Answers

Answers to Morawetz' "Saturday Afternoon at the Met" questions:

1. The entire string section of the orchestra remains silent for seven consecutive minutes of the performance. 
   Tannhauser, 3^rd Act, beginning with “er  kehret nicht zuruck” sung by Elisabeth.  The violins do not play again until Wolfram sings: “Da scheinest du, o lieblichster der Sterne.”
    
2. After having been used throughout the opera, the heavy brass instruments can leave the orchestra pit more than 8 minutes before the final curtain.
   Aida, Act IV, Scene II, beginning with “Aida, ove sei tu?” as sung by Radames, to the end of the opera.
    
3. Seven and a half consecutive bars are played exclusively by percussion instruments.
   Rheingold, the hammering of anvils while Wotan descends from Valhalla.

Answers to Morawetz' contributions to the Cammac Toronto Region newsletter:

1. Can you name four composers who wrote exactly nine symphonies?
   Beethoven, Dvořák, Mahler, Bruckner
    
2. Can you name at least three composers who wrote ten or more symphonies?
   Mozart, Haydn, Shostakovitch
    
3. Name as many composers as you can who never married? How about who married more than once?
   Never married: Bruckner, Schubert, Beethoven, Hugo Wolf, Brahms, Mendelssohn
   Married more than once: Wagner, Debussy, Verdi
    
4. Name composers who had immediate family members (parents, children, spouse, sibling) who were also musicians.
   Bach had 3 children who were composers.
   Strauss' father was a horn player.
   Mozart's father, Leopold, was also a composer.
   Wagner's son composed some operas.
   Mendelssohn's sister was a composer.
   Schumann's wife, Clara, was a composer and a pianist.
    
5. How many relationships can you name where a marriage linked two composers together somehow as in-laws?
   Weber's cousin was Constanze Mozart.
   Suk married the daughter of Dvořák.
   Wagner married the daughter of Liszt.
    
6. There are over 100 operas that have been written whose libretto is based on a Shakespeare play. Can you name some of the more well-known Shakespearean operas?
   Verdi wrote operas MacBeth, Othello and Falstaff.
   Benjamin Britten wrote the opera Midsummer Night Dream.
   Berlioz wrote an opera Much Ado About Nothing.
   Nicolai wrote the Merry Wives of Windsor.
   Gounod wrote an opera Romeo and Juliet.
    
7. How many pieces of music can you think of that begin with the same melody (in any key, with any rhythm) as the notes below:
   

   Here are the nine that Morawetz came up with:

   Richard Strauss' Death and Transfiguration	Debussy's Children's Corner:
   Do You Love Me? from Fiddler on the Roof	Lehar's Merry Widow
   Habanera from Bizet's opera Carmen	Seguidilla from Bizet's opera Carmen
   Popular song You Are My Sunshine	2nd movement from Beethoven's Symphony #2
   Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel

   After posing this quiz to members of the Cammac community, several more examples were discovered:

   Martini's Plaisir d'amour
   Bach's sonata for viola da gamba, BWV 1027, 2nd movement:	Bach's sonata for viola da gamba, BWV 1028, 4th movement:
   Bach's cantata: Wachet Auf!	Et resurrexit from Bach's Mass in B minor
   Hymn: This Joyful Eastertide	Brahms' Waltz #1
   Handel's Messiah	Handel's Water Music (Air)
   Liszt, Les préludes, Symphonic Poem #3, 5th theme	Brahms, Piano Trio No. 1 in B+, op. 8 1st movement, 1st theme
   Haydn, String Quartet 34, op. 20 Rose of Venice	Cecile Chaminade, #2 Automne, from Piano Works, op. 35
   Norah Jones The Nearness Of You	Do Not Foresake Me theme song from movie High Noon
   W.W. II Drinking Song, Anon