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Classics for Kids – Edvard Grieg

About Edvard Grieg

1. Edvard Grieg came from what

country?

___Norway

___Sweden

___Denmark

___Finland

2. Grieg studied music in which city?

___Paris, France

___London, England

___Leipzig, Germany

___Rome, Italy

3. Which instrument did Grieg play?

___violin

___piano

___flute

___trumpet

___clarinet

Incidental Music

4. Which piece of incidental music did

Felix Mendelssohn write?

___The Indian Queen

___A Midsummer Nights Dream

___Hary Janos

___Rhapsody in Blue

5. Edvard Grieg composed incidental

music for which play?

___Romeo and Juliet

___Peer Gynt

___Our Town

___Cinderella

6. Indicental music has been written

for movies such as ET and Our Town.

___True

___False

The Story of Peer Gynt

7. Edvard Grieg wrote incidental

music for Peer Gynt, which is a play

by

___William Shakespeare

___Henrik Ibsen

___George Bernard Shaw

___Thornton Wilder

8. A famous dance from Peer Gynt is

___Anitra's Dance

___The Blue Danube Waltz

___Slavonic Dance

___Minuet in G

9. Another famous piece from Peer

Gynt is

___Aase's Death

___Hary Janos

___Midsummer Night's Dream

___Viennese Musical Clock

Scandinavian Composers

10. Which country is NOT in

Scandinavia?

___Norway

___Denmark

___Sweden

___France

11. Who wrote the famous Finnish

piece called Finlandia?

___Johann Sebastian Bach

___Friedrich Kuhlau

___Jean Sibelius

___Niels Gade

12. The most important Danish

composer of the 19th century was

___Niels Gade

___Felix Mendelssohn

___Ludvig Holberg

___Claude Debussy

Halloween Music

13. Who wrote the Funeral March of a

Marionette?

___Charles Gounod

___Franz Liszt

___Wolfgang Amadus Mozart

___Camille Saint-Saens

14. A famous opera by Engelbert

Humperdinck is

___Carmen

___Hansel and Gretel

___The Magic Flute

___William Tell

15. Which piece was written by

Modest Mussorgsky?

___Ride of the Valkyries

___Night on Bald Mountain

___Jaws

___Infernal Dance