Classical composers quiz
Checked on 11 November 2026
Question 1 of 10
Discover
In which city was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born?
Show the answer
Right Not quite
The answer is Salzburg.
Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756 and was already composing as a small child.
Discover
Which composer wrote the music for the ballet The Nutcracker?
Show the answer
Right Not quite
The answer is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Tchaikovsky wrote three famous ballets, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, which appeared in 1892.
Discover
Which composer wrote The Four Seasons, a set of four violin concertos?
Show the answer
Right Not quite
The answer is Antonio Vivaldi.
Vivaldi's The Four Seasons gives each season of the year its own violin concerto.
Discover
The composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin came from which country?
Show the answer
Right Not quite
The answer is Poland.
Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist, one of the great masters of Romantic piano music.
Practise
Whose Ninth Symphony was the first by a major composer to include parts for singers?
Show the answer
Right Not quite
The answer is Ludwig van Beethoven.
Beethoven's Ninth, the Choral, finishes with the Ode to Joy sung by four soloists and a chorus.
Practise
In the Hall of the Mountain King comes from Peer Gynt, music by which Norwegian composer?
Show the answer
Right Not quite
The answer is Edvard Grieg.
Grieg wrote music for Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, which includes both Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Practise
Which Czech composer wrote the symphony From the New World after moving to America?
Show the answer
Right Not quite
The answer is Antonín Dvořák.
Dvořák wrote his Ninth Symphony, From the New World, in 1893 and it premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Expert
In which city did Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring cause a sensation at its 1913 premiere?
Show the answer
Right Not quite
The answer is Paris.
The Rite of Spring was written for the 1913 Paris season of the Ballets Russes, and its bold music shocked the first-night crowd.
Expert
What is the title of Beethoven's only opera?
Show the answer
Right Not quite
The answer is Fidelio.
Fidelio was Beethoven's one and only opera, and he reworked it many times before its final version in 1814.
Expert
Stravinsky wrote The Firebird for the Ballets Russes company of which impresario?
Show the answer
Right Not quite
The answer is Sergei Diaghilev.
The Firebird was written for Diaghilev's 1910 Paris season and turned the young Stravinsky into a star.