Ether Game Daily Music Quiz

Here’s a hint: smooth sailing…

Here’s a hint: You don’t always have to do what the devil says!

Here’s a hint: It’s a work that was way ahead of its time.

Here’s a hint: It’s music that’s meant to scare the pants off of you!

Here’s a hint: This guy is good . . . maybe too good. . .

This composer found the poetry of older generations particularly appealing. The poet who wrote these lines, for example, had died around the time the composer was born. But he managed to find current, relevant emotions in these older poems, setting them as two song-cycles for voice and orchestra during a time of great personal crisis…

Here’s a hint: There are weird things going down the graveyard tonight!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Music that is pure kismet

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Bugs, frogs, and darkness, oh my!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Celestial wanderers

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A human craving for happiness.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A love letter for Spillville.

Ether Game asks: can you name this tune? Listen closely to see if anything “strikes a spark”…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Pomp and circumstance for the Roman age.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A patriotic melody fit for many nations.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: that’s what you get for rolling around in the grass in your Oxford!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A reign of encyclopedic proportions.

Following the death of an artistic friend, this composer attended a posthumous exhibition of his. The inspiration for this movement was a blueprint, but the architectural marvel it depicted didn’t actually exist! Although the plan was officially approved, it was never constructed, and this musical tribute is the closest it came to being realized…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: the very model of a modern comic opera…

Although Italian by birth, he served the king of France first as a ballet dancer. His musical compositions soon received official support, making him one of the most successful and influential composer around. He struck his foot with a large time-keeping baton during a performance of this piece, and the wound became infected causing his early death