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THE LIMELIGHT QUIZ


1.Whose youthful menagerie included moths,
butterflies, as well as wild bears and a tame bear?

2.A cocktail of peach juice and sparkling
wine is a Bellini, but who is it named after
when it’s strawberry juice?

3.Aroldo,AlziraandObertoare a trio of
operas by which composer?

4.Which recent invention did Gilbert and
Sullivan include reference to inHMS Pinafore?

7.Which English playwright inserted the
waspish phrase “Certain women should be
struck regularly, like gongs,” into the mouth
of one of his characters?

8.After a recital by which virtuoso did
the pianist and composer Moriz Rosenthal
quip:“Yes, he plays well, I suppose, but
he’s no Paderewski”?


  1. InErich Wolfgang Korngold’s psycho-Gothic operaDie Tote Stadt, with what does the
    gloomy, neurotic protagonist murder the fun-loving and supposedly unfaithful Marietta?


5.Which French composer claimed more
was to be gained by watching the sun rise
than by listening to thePastoral Symphony?


  1. WhichFrench late-Romantic professed
    that “Art and music especially consists
    of raising ourselves as high as possible
    above that which is.”


10.Who did Franz Liszt engage in a
notorious piano duel in 1837?

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