Ether Game Daily Music Quiz

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: come inside and warm up!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It’s a Renaissance dance party!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Music from the Highlands

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: She’s sure preaching to the choir

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Opera goes Deutsch!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Oscars for (almost) everybody!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a “contender” of a film score…

Around the time this composer began this symphony, he got married, but it was a failure, in part because his sexual proclivities lay elsewhere. With a spiral into depression and attempted suicide, the symphony was understandably put on hold. By the end of the year, however, he had found encouragement from a generous (and wealthy) patron.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: playing on the keys of history…

In 1857, with the first two operas of a larger cycle completed, the composer left our teaser partway through Act II, and did not return to his hero until 1869. In the meantime, this composer wrote two operas, his marriage fell apart, he was kicked out of Vienna for debt, and he acquired his most influential patron, King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: music therapy, Italian-style…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a first-rate film about being second-best…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: “Paris, we have lift-off…”

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: in- and out-of-tune…

The technique of this composer and performer was so frightfully good that many claimed that he was in league with the Devil. His flashy first violin concerto is filled with deft maneuvers like left hand pizzicato, rapid thirds, and an abundance of harmonics. These techniques led many of his contemporaries to call the concerto unplayable.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: familiar instrument, made from gruesome stuff.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: fully functional…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: music that really makes a “bang”…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: youthful efforts get a second look…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: what kind of hero is named “Nadir”?