Ether Game Daily Music Quiz

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a musically moonlighting scientist…

In this piece, the goddess Minerva reawakens in modern Greece and is devastated to find her homeland occupied by the Ottoman Turks. Luckily, Minerva is reassured that the light of Classical Greek culture has conveniently been passed on to the Austrian empire.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: an application for admission into the “B” club

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: no cuts allowed!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Come and get your diploma!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A musical stroll by the seashore

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Preaching to the choir!

This composer's operas were more popular outside of his hometown; in fact, and earlier opera had been a huge hit in a Bohemian city, leading to a commission for an operatic premiere. The composer's response to this commission was to produce what has probably become the most well-known telling of the tale of an infamous lover.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Graduation gone wild!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Watch what you say!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: mad for the ladies…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a spiritual game of ‘cat-and-mouse’…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: saving poor Roland from himself…

The score for this film was nominated for an Oscar, but lost to another movie just as popular. If sheer musical girth had been a factor, the score heard here certainly would have won as it is present under nearly the entire movie, just under four hours of music. Even more amazing, the composer worked on eleven other film scores in this same year.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: rough mental waters ahead…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: sorrowful countenances and agile windmills…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: history meets the movie soundstage

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: from the dance hall to the concert hall

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: musical down-sizing, anyone?

While finishing up this selection in a village outside Vienna, this composer also wrote a strange document that he never sent. It contains the composer's realization of that his worsening condition. Of course, that wasn’t his only mysterious letter – there’s still the one addressed to an unknown someone.