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Russian Music Test

1. Which Russian opera composer wrote The Golden Cockerel?

Glinka
Glazunov
Rimsky-Korsakov
Prokofiev
Moussorgsky

2. Which Russian opera composer wrote The Red Poppy?

Gliére
Glazunov
Rimsky-Korsakov
Prokofiev
Moussorgsky

3. Prokofiev resided in Russia during World War II.

True
False

4. Stravinsky returned to Russia during World War II.

True
False

5 - 7. Matching Question:


Match the menus with the locations numbered in the picture above.

City 1
City 2
City 3
great 12th century trading center
home of Prince Vladimir I
home of the Winter Palace
site of Boris Godunov Coronation scene

 city mentioned in the title of a Rimsky-Korsakov opera
home of first Russian music conservatory
birthplace of Stravinsky
home of the Bolshoi Ballet

 site of the premiere of Stravinsky's Firebird
home of conservatory attended by Prokofiev
site of Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmilla
birthplace of Alexander Nevsky

8. Which Russian opera composer wrote film scores for Sergei Eisenstein?

Gliére
Glazunov
Rimsky-Korsakov
Prokofiev
Moussorgsky

9. Which Russian composer wrote a set of 24 piano preludes?

Shostakovich
Glazunov
Rimsky-Korsakov
Prokofiev
Moussorgsky

10. Which opera by Shostakovich received strong government condemnation in the late 1930s?

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Bluebeard's Castle
The Red Poppy
The Golden Cockerel
Ivan Susanin



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