Have fun testing your classical music knowledge with our regular competitions. The first entry picked with correct answers will win both a CD and score of the listed work(s).

Prize for this competition:

Stravinsky Rite of Spring Naxos CD with the London Symphony Orchestra and Robert Craft and a
Boosey & Hawkes Masterworks full score
Total prize value £23.30 (Approximately 46 USD / 30 Euros)

• Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony famously ends with a series of emphatic chords from the full orchestra. Which other Nordic symphony – by a composer born in the same year as Sibelius – begins with a sequence of powerful orchestral chords?
  
  
• How many symphonies did Sibelius in fact compose (excluding different versions of the same work)?
  
  
• Which composer celebrated the pines, fountains and festivals in the capital city of his native land?
  
  
• Who wrote a piano piece depicting the rage caused by a lost penny?
  
  
• The band played on, they say, as the Titanic went down – but what was the final hymn they played?
  
  
• Of which composer was Tchaikovsky talking when he said “I’ve played through some of his piano music. What a giftless bastard”?
  
  
• Name two composers other than Puccini who wrote an opera called Turandot.
  
  
• How many keyboard sonatas did Domenico Scarlatti compose – and in which country?
  
  
• Which contemporary English composer recently completed Elgar’s Third Symphony by “elaborating” Elgar’s sketches for the work?
  
  
• Which 19th century keyboard piece instructs the performer to play “As fast as possible” and, a little later, “Even faster”?
  
  

Email your answers to competitions@boosey.com

Closing date: 31 May 2008

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