How well do you know Classical Music? A Quiz...

It's a year's worth of videos...
So, a quiz. 25 clips, a point for the composer, another for the piece. Double for your percentage score.
This quiz is hard...I tried it in 'stupid' mode and got 30%. In 'smart' mode I got 68%...and I know the music!
Anyhow...here's a breakdown...
0-10% - Congrats, you know some classical music
11-20% - You know a reasonable amount of classical music
21-40% - You have a wide knowledge of classical music
(or you've followed my channel closely)
41-60% - You have a wide knowledge of classical music, AND you've followed my channel
61-80% - Respect. You clearly know your stuff
81-100% - Are you cheating??
Enjoy!! And let me know your marks in the comments, so I can adjust the breakdown...
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[@Wellce]

03:55 this scherzo is from Bruckner's 4th symphony, not 5th. 05:54 not a ballet. It is a Fantasy Overture.

[@vinylarchaeologist]

Yes indeed!

[@philipyao5989]

5:48 is also the first movement not the third

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

@@philipyao5989 Good grief all true...apologies everyone! But should also point out the ballet reference isn't part of the quiz answer, so shouldn't affect any marks.

[@estern-kg4mk]

This!

[@aymericd.6126]

4:13 It is "Clair de lune", not "Claire de lune"

[@grahamnancledra7036]

I got to the St John Passion and then I was lost. The opening of the passion HAS to be one of the most moving openings of any work written. Oh those wailing oboe's.

[@randomguy4488]

68% One correction: number 1 is Bruckner’s 4th symphony not his 5th

[@rjr1967]

Ah I missed that, but isn't there something fishy about the numbering of Bruckner symphonies anyway? Like with Dvorak, aren't there two ways of numbering them? Wouldn't have helped me anyway.

[@belpit66]

@@rjr1967 There are multiple versions of many Bruckner symphonies, but there's no problem with the numbering. This is number 4.

[@GeorgetownDude]

This is brilliant!!! Been looking for something like this for ages. Thanks a million.

[@ThomasIrdor]

I'm French and I just discovered your channel, thank u so much for all these videos

[@danielweisman496]

Fun! Didn't know some of them. I hope you'll do another quiz!

[@samsiskind1815]

Not going to list the piece so I don't spoil it for others, but believe you made a mistake in the answer for #1. Right composer listed, wrong piece.

[@ianrosenberg8103]

Agreed

[@robertdawsonscott9068]

Yep pretty shite quiz when the quizmaster doesn’t know his own answers

[@robertdawsonscott9068]

Also number three title is nit correct

[@ianrosenberg8103]

@@robertdawsonscott9068 dude it’s a typo his content is generally of very good quality

[@sergei-prokofiev]

Indeed should be the 4th, movement is correct tho

[@ericleiter6179]

I got all but the Monteverdi, and the opening one, which sounded like the 4th symphony to me too...but other than that, a lot of fun to take these quizzes, congrats on 1 year of good content and here's to another one!!!

[@martineyles]

It is Bruckner's 4th symphony.

[@kestrel4733]

78%, missed most of the Classical/baroque stuff which I should really listen to more of. Love the variety in this set!

[@jeromeschmitz8504]

this is so well put together

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

That's very kind, thank you!

[@Ven-7xv]

30% better than I thought I would do to be honest. Fantastic video as always

[@alv2617]

Fabulous Quiz!!!

[@alv2617]

8%!!!!!!

[@autoghg]

56% and I'm quite proud! I missed some obvious ones (e.g. Mozart 41 lol) but I call classical music my greatest passion so it's still alright... great quiz! Normally, they are too easy but this was amazing!

[@flaming-will5545]

I got 10% 😢, I'm sad that I didnt do well but I will try and retake this in the future 🙂, Thanks for this Classical Music Quiz 👍

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

My son's partner - who's fantastic at music - only got 7%! That's when I knew the quiz was hard!

[@rjr1967]

enjoyed this, thanks. I thought it was funny the way the last four pieces all end in the same key and you choose the finales ... they all seemed to blur together. And even though I recognized the texture of the Strauss chord I couldn't quite place where I'd heard it. 68%.

[@LuigiRBG]

I did 8 answers in total, but, I say if the piece that you are showing started from the beginning is slightly easier , most of us that love classical music will say the name of the piece or the composers on that single principle. This was fun, keep it up amigos😎👍🏼🎸

[@jaakkomantyjarvi7515]

OK, a few nits to pick here. Props for championing classical music, but accuracy is important. 1. I didn't clock this on listening but did check: as someone else pointed out, this is Bruckner 4, not Bruckner 5. 3. The Rite of Spring, or Le sacre du printemps, not Rites of Spring 8. The Dance of Knights is from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, which is a ballet (cf. Tchaikovsky below) 10. Generally referred to in English as the St John Passion, not St John's Passion (because it is not the passion OF St John, it is the passion ACCORDING TO St John). Also, you've mentioned the movement in other cases, so why not name which chorus this is? 13. Lakmé, not Lakme. 17.+18. Might have mentioned where in the symphony we are here. 19. 1st movement of Winter, not 3rd. 20. Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet is a Fantasy Overture, not a ballet. Someone somewhere may have choreographed it as a ballet, but that's not what it originally was.

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

Thanks for corrections...accuracy is important. I did the text elements of the video in a hurry at the end, so was sloppier than I should have been. 17 and 18 are I believe both from the final movements

[@morof_r]

44%, and that's the first video I see from your channel. But not the last!

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

That's the spirit! Be interested if you took the quiz again, how improved your mark is...?

[@willcorff]

The last one gave me a burst of nostalgia because I played hor on it for contest in high school

[@TheMarcHicks]

76%. I was more embarrassed by the ones I *didn't* know....like the Bruckner, Wagner & Sibelius.....but was proud of how I guessed Haydn and Monterverdi by their style alone.....even if I couldn't pick the exact piece it was. Thank you so much for this amazing quiz.

[@martineyles]

I seemed to struggle with exactly the opposite to you. Did better on the Romantics and worse on the Classics and Renaissance. 74%, maybe 72%.

[@kaloarepo288]

I got 14 correct -I'm good at the opera ones and weak on the romantic symphonies!

[@dorothysatterfield3699]

That was fun, thanks! (42%)

[@warrenabeshouse1230]

I did quite well, with 76%. Should have picked at least 3 others. Looking forward to the next quiz.

[@PMA65537]

In a sample like this it's impossible to tell Dvorak Humoresque from Desecration Rag.

[@kennethbriner5390]

Missed most of them but it was fun even if it overtaxed my classical knowledge.

[@mr.pancakes9213]

54%, its a crime mahler wasn't on here

[@abqualcosa9737]

very amusing

[@kingchubbythe1541]

14% I kept guessing Mahler for any big choral symphony 🤦‍♂️

[@II-zf3vo]

%13 i play piano so i don’t really listen orchestral musice

[@Nilmand]

56%. I struggled with with the last pieces (except Beethoven) and with baroque/classical composers

[@stephenc6648]

72%, assuming that the symphony in the first has the wrong number. I'm shocked at myself for not recognising Haydn. This is quite a hard quiz because it's difficult to recognise short bits of music out of context, even if they're extremely familiar.

[@alexreyes2491]

I’ve played this symphony twice and could’ve i sworn it was mozart lol

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

Exactly. And it's pretty fast

[@altoclef6688]

@@enjoyclassicalmusic6006 Very stressful. Missed pieces I have played, and missed pieces I love (how could I not get Shostakovich..?) - didn't even place Beethoven's 5, how is that even possible?

[@lnhart7157]

50%, there were definitely a few tricky ones with only brief clips

[@SophieLeung-du9we]

52% I did miss some easy ones (cuz I didn’t listen to the whole thing like Mozart 41) And hard ones cuz I haven’t checked them out yet Great quiz and classical music is my favourite ❤

[@nemer_k]

60% and indeed i have followed your channel lol

[@sjambler]

Missed the Dvorak. Got the Tchaikovsky but not the work. Guessed Mass in B Minor instead of the St. John Passion. Very proud to guess that the Haydn was 104. And I was sure the Bruckner was from the 4th. Glad to have this confirmed by the comments. Please give us more quizzes.

[@micheasz2552]

Got almost everything, need to listen more Shostakovich, Bruckner and Sibelius

[@CitizenKane359]

Oops! The first piece is the scherzo from Bruckner's 4th, not 5th. Great video, though, so thank you!

[@tortysoft]

I was at a few of those performances :-)

[@jayarbe60]

58% and I've got a music degree. Oh, the shame! Kicking myself for missing the Strauss and for confusing the Borodin with Verdi...

[@hojowarf6488]

74% Those short bits out of context can throw me for a loop!

[@MrTonyHeath]

Brilliantly put togeher but too fast fpr my old brain. Bravo.

[@RetroEste]

66% for me. The one I was surprised I got immediately was Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Guess the organ really did give it away for me.

[@rgnyc]

Yeesh, 34% - although I comfort myself that if I'd paid closer attention to details (e.g. Zarathustra) I'd have scored a whopping 46%.

[@DiegoDahle]

76%, not bad :D

[@tonypatriarche3791]

Fun...I got 62%. One quibble: changing the key of a piece is quite unfair. For example, I can ID the Andante of Beethoven's 7th from just the first chord (Am 2nd inversion); if it were transposed I'm not at all sure I'd recognize it.

[@ferru4003]

63% (gave myself 1,5 points to Gershwin by guessing "Rhapsody" and forgetting "in blue")

[@ralphoperaphile]

Feeling disgustingly smug at 94% - couldn't place the Haydn symphony but knew the composer; knew the music but didn't know it was the Humoresque by Dvorak. Was baffled that I had got the wrong Bruckner symphony until I saw the correction below. Thanks.

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

Wow, I think we have a new leader! Apologies for the Bruckner error, that must have been a relief...

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@enjoyclassicalmusic6006 It's a tie with johnhayward3754. He also got 94%.

[@sylvaintaif8128]

Wow I barely got the mean with 54 pts... (I got the first one correct according to the replies and I checked :) What was funny was to reaaally try and listen 3, 4 times (the 15th and 24th) knowing I knew them but quite not putting 2 and 2 together to give the track's name aha ! Also its funny to realize how different the pace or the volume of certain instruments impact our memory. The tracks that got me most confused (again, 15th and 24th) sounded very different to the versions I'm used to :) Either way, fun game !

[@elephant012super]

Nice test ! 82% 😃 May I stress that n°1 is Bruckner's 4th not 5th? 😇

[@jakubedwardschiffauermedraj]

Dayum congrats!

[@artomatt]

16%. I obviously need to study this channel

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

Like the thought! Be interested if you spot any of the clips when you do...

[@nadkine6601]

34% i gotta learn!

[@evansercombe]

76%! Slightly disappointed in myself for missing the Haydn (and mixing up Tristan with Mahler’s 8th 🤦‍♂️) but I’m glad I got Zarathustra.

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

Excellent score (points, not music)! I think those final three in Eb are the hardest

[@sylvaintaif8128]

I'm glad I'm not alone 😂 I too thought it was Mahler (though I guessed the ending of the 2nd)

[@jayarbe60]

@@sylvaintaif8128 Me too. Not a Wagner fan, though.

[@tommonk7651]

Well, I realized I totally suck at classical music.... Now, if you did 60s and 70s rock, I would ace it....😁

[@123splendide7]

Proud of recognizing Gershwin, and the last was so megalomaniac - it had to be Beethoven ;-)

[@zjschrage]

16/25 If its Mozart or Bach I don't know it. As long as its after the mid 1800s I know it probably. If its Bruckner, I know the exact measure number by heart!

[@traugottklassik8252]

Thanks for this Video ,one mistake is ,thats the 1st Movement from Vivaldis Winter

[@fredericchopin7332]

52%, still have a lot to listen to :P

[@CRAEager]

About 60%! Nice performance of St John’s. Who is it?

[@seheyt]

I don't recognize people, and didn't go back, but likely Suzuki

[@ferencbombicz9512]

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[@bhami]

Do we get points for knowing the conductors? Looks like Barenboim at the very end.

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

Hhh, sorry, no. I think guessing Barenboim is easier than guessing the piece, even though the piece itself is an obvious one with more context

[@sethoflagos2880]

A measly 62%. As a somewhat musical yoof I'd have got something fairly respectable back then. As a 64 year-old I searched high and low for Borodin but kept coming up Bakunin.

[@martineyles]

I didn't remember the composer was Borodin, despite playing the piece less than a year ago!

[@fazivles]

I got all but the Richard Strauss and Monteverdi ones B)

[@pianissimo5951]

I got 16/25 in which i gave myself 0.5 points when i got the composer. Funily enough i wrote Puccini in tristan and isolde, meanwhile the 18th which is Sibelius i wrote as tristan and isolde. Idkwtf the 24th was... (correct marked in +, incorrect marked in x, composer crrect marked in x/+) 1. Beethoven symphony 8 x 2. Grieg piano concerto + 3. Stravinsky Rite of spring + 4. Violin concerto 13 Mozart x 5. Debussy Claire de Lune + 6. Dvorak Humoresque + 7. Chopin Funeral March + 8. Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Dance of the Knights + 9. Berlioz symphony fantastique x 10. Bach mass in b minor x/+ 11. Handel Duet or smth x 12. Puccini Nesun dorma x 13. Delibes Flower duet Lakme + 14. Handel Zadok the Priest + 15. Gershwin Rhapsody in blue + 16. Mahler symphony no 10 x 17. Shostakovich symphony 11 x/+ 18. Wagner Tristan and Isolde x 19. Vivaldi Winter + 20. Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet + 21. Khachaturian Sabre dance + 22. Mozart 41 symphony + 23. Saint-saens organ symphony + 24. idkwtf x 25. Beethoven symphony 5 + 64% correct is not enough, i sucked...

[@nicolasforfant484]

Great! However, a mention of who are the performers would have been an elegant acknowledgment. We won't guess them all.

[@lindildeev5721]

38 points, I think. And it was the first monement from Winter.

[@dracho8741]

Only 28% but really nice quiz

[@ianrosenberg8103]

76% going strong 💪

[@LillianSheldon]

28%. I didn’t do great but it was a fun quiz!

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

No shame in 28%...a 'sleepy' me only got 30%, and I wrote it!

[@stevenbend7080]

I got 22 composers and 20 pieces for 84%.

[@billhamilton]

To be precise: (1) The first excerpt is definitely from Bruckner's 4th Symphony, "The Romantic"; (2) The translated title of Stravinsky's seminal ballet is "The Rite of Spring," not "Rites"; (3) It's J.S. Bach's "St. John Passion," not "St. John's"; (4) The "Climax" of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" is widely known as "The Liebestod"; (5) Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" is a "Fantasy Overture," not a "ballet."

[@changemankind]

40 %, but to my defense, this is the first of your videos I watched.

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

Ah ha, you get the chance to watch them all and then take the quiz again 😁

[@Allen2]

Beethoven's Fifth ... i thought it went "Ba-Ba-Ba Baaam!"

[@Dylonely42]

80% :)

[@duckyu6573]

I thought I was an avid classical musician lover, but I only knew some of these....

[@fluffly3606]

33%. I took a half point from myself for getting the movement wrong on 19

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

8: Egoiste! Egoiste!

[@ruicosta6342]

I got 72%, but I had never listened to only 3 of the 25

[@pavaomrazek]

5:48 First movement*

[@jessicachiu5953]

I thought no.14 was Ode to Joy and no.25 was Beethoven's No.1 lol😂😂🙈

[@nodarikirtadze8220]

I have a wide knowledge

[@thewildcellist]

Fun! An actual list at the end would be nice so the viewer doesn't have to watch the video for each answer. The excerpts plucked from the middle were tricky - like Mozart 41! 😮 Now, for a _challenge:_ 25 excerpts of works by historical female composers!

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

That would be pointless, because no one ever listens to them, and therefore has no stored memory about details of their music. ;)

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

@@Quotenwagnerianer By weird coincidence I went to a performance of Florence Price's 1st symphony two days ago, and thought it was excellent. Expect a video in 6 months...😁

[@thewildcellist]

@@Quotenwagnerianer To say that "no one ever listens to them" is categorically false. I certainly do. The fact that a fair number of listeners would be stymied by the quiz would be a net positive in two ways. The first is that it would draw attention to the fact that they're unfamiliar with a large, important swathe of under appreciated, often excellent music. The second is that said listeners would also, as a result of that very quiz, be exposed to some of that music and likely would want to hear more. Which would be a small but positive step towards defeating the centuries old musical misogyny that's still so pervasive in our society. Prior to the 1970s, the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico was a sparsely populated area that few had ever visited or even heard of. "No one ever went there..."

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@thewildcellist It still makes absolutely zero sense. You are already a miniscule minority within the general minority of us classical music listeners. And being able to recognize a piece requires repeated listening over years in many cases. You will not find enough people who have listened to a sizeable amont of female composers for the required length and time to be able to extrapolate excerpts and recognize them. It's just totally unrealistic. And I'm also totally against this political movement that you have to expose people to female composers. Why? That ship has sailed. The repertoire established. The rest is just a question of quality: How good is it? That alone should be the deciding factor, whether something gets play, not whether something was written by a woman. I performed works by women, listened to female composers. They are forgotten for a reason. And that is not because they are women. It's the same reason why no one plays more music by Bruch beside his 1st Violinconcerto or the Scottish Fantasy. There is too much better stuff out there.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@enjoyclassicalmusic6006 I heard one of her symphonic poems a month ago and thought it was just as mediocre as Edward McDowell's stuff. And now she gets more play than him because she was a black woman not because her music is better.

[@leanandmeanproductions687]

Wow, gets really hard at the end.

[@jonhayward3754]

94% ... missed the first, thought it was the 8th, but they all sound the same to me apart from the 7th. Knew 17 was Shostakovich but couldn't place it ...

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

I think that's the most impressive thus far, well done!

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

Nice! Finally someone topped my score.

[@kbrdmn2]

I got 46%, but I haven't followed your channel.😁

[@hoangkimviet8545]

Welcome Bach!

[@modernmusicofthedarkages296]

No Mahler :(

[@az4037]

I got 52%... And I'm a music major

[@laurenlofton9039]

39/50 or 78%.

[@cobymela]

No Mahler?

[@owlcowl]

22/25 but they went by so fast I'm amazed I did so well. Too much emphasis on choral & orchestral works. Way too heavy on Romanticism IMO, but still no Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Brahms, Mahler? As usual with such exercises, nothing before Vivaldi except - a happy choice - Monterverdi (none of these intro level courses acknowledge that the inventory of great Western composers begins with Hildegard & Machaut, thru Dufay & Josquin, etc). Also nothing 20C after Shostakovich, and why no Bartok, Janacek, Schoenberg (ok, its a given you wouldnt include Schoenberg). But you had to include the ever-lovin' Sabre Dance -- ah well. ;-)

[@heinrichstober5706]

Nice list, but it's vivaldis 1st movement ;)

[@JamesMarler]

Am I the only person that was getting an out of tune tympani on the last clip?

[@martineyles]

74% (maybe only 72% - I let through Flower Aria instead of Duet. Dance of the knights is titled Montagues and Capulets in the 2nd suite, so I think that's definitely ok. I did get Bruckner 4 right though.) I am a little disappointed in what I have forgotten. I have played Shostakovich 7 and Mozart 41, but didn't recognise either. I feel particularly bad about dissing Mozart, because the snippet sounds better than I remember. I also confused Mozart and Haydn (wrote down Mozart for the Haydn question), though I was never great at distinguishing them, except to say that Haydn's Horn parts are quite often way to high for an amateur player. I'll forgive myself for confusing Mahler and Shostakovich, as I had conversations with people about how Mahler 6 definitely has moments which Shostakovich sounds like. I also couldn't remember the composers of Polotsvian Dances or Sabre Dance, despite having played both less than a year ago.

[@user-yl4xd1iw3c]

i was able to score only 41%, although i created several quizzes on classical music myself :(

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

Like I said in the description, I got 30% when I first 'pretended' to take the quiz!

[@jiafeiskinnyproducts]

66, missed a lot of the german composers, damn!

[@sourjyabanerjee9310]

Missed 1,15-18 😢

[@scottyrsx71]

42 hmmm either I know it all or I’m very depressed

[@chessematics]

44%

[@R-N88]

82 procent (when the first anwers Bruckner 4th symphony)

[@enjoyclassicalmusic6006]

yes you should get bonus marks for correcting the quizzer!

[@Park-bq3mu]

9/25(36%) coz' i'm the pianist 😂😂😂

[@sergeykonstantinov9541]

1 is the 4th Symphony, not 5th. 19 is the 1st movement of the Winter concerto, not 3rd. 20 is an Overture-Fantasy, not a ballet. To me it looks like the author should rather improve his own erudition before quizzing others.

[@matthewmccarthy9293]

32% 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥