Test your knowledge of classical music in Live Klassisk's quiz!
1) The month's anagram: brent flyer
Hint: Songs with the coolest name in the world
2) There has been great dissatisfaction with NRK recently. Why?
3) October is Halloween month. Which composer wrote the spooky piece Danse macabre, in which the concertmaster has to retune his violin?
4) What is the name of the early music festival held from 12 October to 19 October in Oslo?
5) Artisk Filharmoni gives the premiere in October of the concert version of a newly written opera called “Klovnen”. Who composed it?
6) How many professional symphony orchestras do we have in Norway?
7) Trondheim Symfoniorkester will perform the music of which film composer at the end of October?
8) Which word is the name of a Spanish dance, a garment and a work by Maurice Ravel?
9) Kristiansand Symfoniorkester recently toured to a venerable concert hall. Which one?
10) The composer Jean-Baptiste Lully is said to have lost his life in a very peculiar way. How did he die?
The answers:
1) Bryn Terfel
2) Because of the closure of, among others, Spillerom, Musikkreisen, Klassisk Vorspiel
3) Camille Saint-Saëns
4) Oslo Early
5) Gisle Kverndokk
6) 8 - Kringkastningorkesteret, Operaorkesteret, Oslo-Filharmonien, Kristiansand Symfoniorkester, Stavanger Symfoniorkester, Bergen Filharmoniske orkester, Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera and Arktisk Filharmoni
7) Hans Zimmer
8) Bolero
9) Musikverein, Vienna
10) He struck himself in the foot with a conducting stick and died of gangrene as a result.
