See if you can tell which composer or work I'm describing by the "frosty" clues. Press the "?" to see if you're right.
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He wrote a work called "Winter Storm Waltz" which depicts some really bad weather but with a nice waltz tempo (just in case you felt like dancing on your frostbitten feet). Who is this guy? |
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Mozart liked to have fun. He wrote a lot of German dances and one of them set a festive wintry tone by using something that would (perhaps) have been found on a horse rather than in an orchestra. What were these unusual instruments? |
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What was the nickname of Tchaikovsky's First Symphony? |
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What Baroque composer wrote instructions for his violinists to play a movement of this last of four concerti as if their "teeth were chattering from the winter's wind?" |
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What Russian composer wrote a series of orchestral works called "The Seasons" which, like Vivaldi, had four distinct parts? |
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What Polish-born composer wrote an etude titled "Winter Storm?" |
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Name the Russian composer who wrote a set of piano miniatures, one for each month of the year with such cozy titles as "Troika" and "By the Fireside". |
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What famous Schubert lied is the story of a furious ride through a cold winter's night? |
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In "Amadeus," what music do we hear in the background as the aged Salieri is taken from his home to the insane asylum - in a blinding Vienna snowstorm? |
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In the film "Groundhog Day," which romantic Rachmaninov work does Bill Murray learn during his never ending winter day? |
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