Test your knowledge of classical music in Live Klassisk's quiz!
1) The month's anagram: ABC handlagre høgakter
Hint: A deceased and highly acclaimed Norwegian composer.
2) A living piano legend has just turned 90. Who?
3) Which Norwegian orchestra won the prize “Orchestra of the Year” at the Grammophone Classical Music Awards 2025?
4) …and which two other Norwegian musicians won prizes?
5) In October Oslo-filharmonien performed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5. Which film from 1971 made the Adaggietto movement of this symphony enormously popular with ordinary people?
6) …and who conducted the concert?
7) What is the name of the festival that Engegårdkvartetten organises on 14-16 November?
8) On 27 November Trondheim Symfoniorketser og Opera perform Gustav Holst's most popular work, his Op. 32. What is it called?
9) How old was the composer Franz Schubert when he died?
10) …And what was the name of his last song cycle (a work with a very fitting title)?
The answers:
1) Agathe Backer Grøndahl
2) Liv Glaser
3) Bergen filharmoniske orkester
4) Lise Davidsen and Vilde Frang
5) Death in Venice
6) Jukka-Pekka Saraste
7) 123-festival! You can read more about it on LiveKlassisk
8) The Planets
9) 31 years
10) Swan Song
