Summary

Do you know your Mozart from your Mendelssohn? Your Bach from your Berlioz?

Packed with history, culture, facts, puzzles and images of all the most well-known composers, concert halls, scores and pieces, the Classical Music Puzzle Book will make the perfect Christmas gift for those who love music.

Covering a wide range of classical composers and well-loved classical pieces, the book will suit both classical music aficionados, who are musicians themselves, to those who just love BBC Radio 3 or Classic FM.

Organised into 5 sections: Vocal, Stage, Orchestral, Concerti, and Instrumental, there will be 80 entries, each containing puzzles and quizzes that relate to classical music from all periods. The puzzles will be designed so that you can work out the answers if you don’t know them already, so you don’t have to be a musical expert in order to enjoy the book.

Written by classical music radio and television broadcaster Petroc Trelawny with puzzles by Dr Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres.

Author Biography

Petroc Trelawny is a classical music radio and television broadcaster. He has contributed to the Spectator, Irish Times and BBC Music Magazine. Since 1998, he has been a presenter on BBC Radio 3.

Dr Gareth Moore is the author of over 200 puzzle and brain-training titles for both children and adults, including The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book (Trapeze), Enigma: Crack the Code (Michael O’Mara) and The Penguin Book of Puzzles (Michael Joseph). His books have sold in excess of 5 million copies in the UK alone, and have been published in over 35 different languages. He is also a director of the World Puzzle Federation, which oversees the World Puzzle Championships, and a director of the UK Puzzle Association. Find him online at DrGarethMoore.com.

Laura Jayne Ayres is a puzzle writer and author. She studied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, and is also a published playwright. Books that she has worked on include: The Whodunnit Puzzle Book, Spydle, The Fantasy Puzzle Book, Meowdle and 'Twas The Murder Before Christmas.

Introduction

UK
William Byrd – Mass for Five Voices (c.1540-1623)
Henry Purcell – King Arthur (1659-1695)
Edward Elgar – Piano Quintet (1857-1934)
*Ethel Smyth – The Wreckers (1858-1944)
Gustav Holst – Hammersmith (1874-1934)
**Samuel Coleridge Taylor – The Song of Hiawatha (1875-1912)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No 3 Pastoral (1872-1958)
*Grace Williams – Penillion (1906-1977)
*Imogen Holst – Suite for Solo Viola (1907-1984)
Benjamin Britten – Night Mail (1913-1976)
*Doreen Carwithen – One Damn Thing After Another (1922-2003)
*/**Errolyn Wallen TBA (b. 1958)
Thomas Adès – The Tempest / Arcadiana? (b.1971)

Russia
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker (1840-1893)
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade (1844-1908)
Dmitri Shostakovich – Moscow Cheryomushk (1906-1975)

United States
*Amy Beach TBA (1867-1944)
Charles Ives – Three Places in New England (1874-1954)
*/**Florence Price – Symphony No.1 in E minor (1887-1953)
**William Grant Still – Symphony No.1 Afro-American (1895-1978)
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring (1900-1990)
*Ruth Crawford Seeger – Three Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg (1901-1953)
Elliott Carter Epigrams (1908-2012)
Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings (1910-1981)
John Cage – 4’33” (1912-1992)
Steve Reich – Different Trains (b.1936)
*Jennifer Higdon – Scenes from the Poet’s Dreams (b.1962)

Germany/Austria
*Hildegard of Bingen – Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (1098-1179)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Coffee Cantata (1685-1750)
Franz Joseph Haydn –Symphony No.45 in F sharp minor Farewell (1732-1809)
*Mariana Martines – Il primo amore (1744-1812)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Abduction from the Seraglio (1756-1791)
Beethoven – Piano Sonata No.14 Moonlight (1770-1827)
Carl Maria von Weber – Oberon. (1786-1826)
Franz Schubert – Winterreise (1797-1828)
Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah (1809-1847)
Robert Schumann – Liederkreis (1810-1856)
Franz Liszt – Nuages gris (1811-1886)
Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll (1813-1883)
*Clara Schumann – Piano Trio in G minor (1819-1896)
Johannes Brahms – Double Concerto in A minor (1833-1897)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.3 (1860-1911)
Richard Strauss – Oboe Concerto (1864-1949)
*Johanna Senfter TBA (1871-1961)
Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire (1874-1951)
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helikopter-Streichquartett (1928-2007)

Central Europe
Antonín Dvorák – Cello Concerto (1841-1904)
Leoš Janácek – String Quartet No.2 Intimate Letter (1854-1928)
Bela Bartók – Piano Concerto No.3 (1881-1945)

France
*Élizabeth Jacquet de La Guerre TBA 1665-1729)
**Josef Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges – Aline et Dupré (1745-1799)
Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique (1803-1869)
Camille Saint-Saëns – Symphony No.3 Organ Symphony (1835-1921)
*Cecile Chaminade – Automne (1857-1944)
Claude Debussy – La Mer (1862-1918)
Maurice Ravel – Concerto for the Left Hand (1875-1937)
*Lili Boulanger – D’un matin de printemps (1893-1918)

Italy
Claudio Monteverdi – L’Orfeo (1567-1643)
*Barbara Strozzi – Che si può fare (1619-1677)
Antonio Vivaldi – L’estro harmonico (1678-1741)
Giuseppe Verdi – String Quartet (1813-1901)
Giacomo Puccini – Il trittico (1858-1924)
Carlo Gesualdo. TBA (1566-1613)

Nordic Lands
Jean Sibelius – Lemminkäinen Suite (1865-1957)
*Elfrida Andrée - TBA (1841-1929)
Edvard Grieg – Piano Concerto in A minor (1843-1907)
Einojuhani Rautavaara – Cantus Arcticus (1928-2016)
*Kaija Saariaho – L’ amour de loin (1952-2023)

Classical Music’s New World
*Chiquinha Gonzaga (Brazil) TBA (1847-1935)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil) – Bachianas Brasileiras (1887-1959)
*Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Australia) – Etruscan Concerto (1912-1990)
**Toru Takemitsu (Japan)– Black Rain (1930-1996)
**Tan Dun (China) – Marco Polo (b.1957)
*/**Unsuk Chin (S Korea)– Alice in Wonderland (b.1961)
Brett Dean (Australia) – Hamlet

The Exiles
George Frideric Handel – Messiah (1685-1759)
Frédéric Chopin – Polonaise fantaisie (1810-1849)
Sergei Rachmaninov – Symphonic Dances (1873-1943)
Igor Stravinsky – Le sacre du printemps (1882-1971)
Sergei Prokofiev – Overture on Hebrew Themes (1891-1953)

*Female composers (22/80)
**Global Majority (8/80)

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index

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