Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	Joseph Haydn was content to spend most of his life
		A)	serving a wealthy aristocratic family
		B)	as a church musician and organist
		C)	as an independently wealthy composer
		D)	as a professional free-lance musician


2	In the classical period, comic operas sometimes
		A)	were based on the Old Testament
		B)	ridiculed the aristocracy
		C)	were in Latin
		D)	all of the above


3	Haydn's contract of employment shows that he was considered
		A)	a skilled servant
		B)	a free-lance musician
		C)	a visiting guest composer
		D)	an equal by his employer


4	Social mobility during the classical period was
		A)	a limited sociological factor
		B)	ruthlessly stamped out by the aristocracy
		C)	promoted and encouraged by the church
		D)	an important factor in the rise of the middle class


5	Vienna in 1800
		A)	was the fourth-largest city in Europe
		B)	had a population of almost 250,000
		C)	was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire
		D)	all of the above


6	In Vienna, Haydn and Mozart
		A)	avoided each other
		B)	became close friends
		C)	were jealous of each other
		D)	never met


7	In the classical period, serious composition was flavored by
		A)	folk and popular music
		B)	heroic and mythological plots
		C)	elaborately ornamented melodies
		D)	all of the above


8	The prospering middle class in the classical period sought aristocratic luxuries such as
		A)	theater
		B)	literature
		C)	music
		D)	all of the above


9	The Concert des Amateurs, an organization in Paris devoted to presenting public concerts, was conducted in the 1770s by
		A)	Johann Christian Bach
		B)	the Chevalier de Saint-Georges
		C)	Ludwig van Beethoven
		D)	Joseph Haydn

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