Test your knowledge of classical music in Live Klassisk's quiz!
1) Anagram of the month: AIDS corpus gulhet
Hint: concert guide...
2) A living legend among composers has just turned 90. Who?
3) On 10 and 11 December the Oslo-filharmonien will perform the film music simultaneously with the screening of which famous Norwegian film?
4) ...and who composed the music?
5) December is the time for Christmas concerts. Which well-known work, which we associate with Christmas, will Kristiansand symfoniorkester perform on 3 December?
6) ...and what festival was this work actually written for?
7) The chamber orchestra of Arktisk filharmoni plays an Advent concert in the concert series intended to reach a young audience. What is this concert series called? (Hint: the name calls for relaxation)
8) What is the world's most performed classical Christmas work?
9) ...and what is the world's most recorded Christmas song?
10) How many times is the German word for Christmas, Weinacht, sung in the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach? (By the way, the work is called Weihnachts-Oratorium)
The answers:
1) August Schieldrop
2) Helmut Lachenmann
3) Flåklypa
4) Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
5) Handel's Messiah
6) Easter. The work was not associated with Christmas until long after the composer's death
7) Relæxt
8) The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
9) Glade jul
10) Zero
