Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was
		A)	Johann Sebastian Bach
		B)	Ludwig van Beethoven
		C)	Johannes Brahms
		D)	Hector Berlioz


2	Wagner called his works music dramas rather than operas because
		A)	there is a continuous musical flow within each act
		B)	there are no breaks where applause can interrupt
		C)	the vocal line is inspired by the rhythms and pitches of the German text
		D)	all of the above


3	Wagner's last opera was
		A)	Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods)
		B)	Tannhäuser
		C)	Rienzi
		D)	Parsifal


4	The librettos to The Ring of the Nibelung were written by
		A)	Arrigo Boito
		B)	Wagner himself
		C)	King Ludwig of Bavaria
		D)	Hans von Bülow


5	A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Wagner in his operas, is called
		A)	leitmotif
		B)	lied
		C)	unending melody
		D)	speech-song


6	Valhalla, in Wagner's Ring cycle, is
		A)	a city in New York State
		B)	the castle of the gods
		C)	the home of Siegfried
		D)	the magic ring


7	Wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in
		A)	Munich
		B)	Weimar
		C)	Dresden
		D)	Bayreuth


8	Wagner's first successful opera was
		A)	Tannhaüser
		B)	Rienzi
		C)	The Twilight of the Gods
		D)	Die Walküre


9	Siegmund, in Wagner's opera Die Walküre is
		A)	Sieglinde's brother, then lover
		B)	Wotan's son by a mortal woman
		C)	Siegfried's father
		D)	all of the above


10	Which of the following operas was not composed by Wagner?
		A)	Tannhaüser
		B)	Tristan and Isolde
		C)	Fidelio
		D)	Parsifal

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