Independent on sunday ipod music quiz 6/11/2005

coolplayer | 15:41 Mon 07th Nov 2005 | Music

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Help wanted please!

Composers.

1. Who thought he couldn't compose unless he wore the ring he had been sent by Frederick the Great ?

2. Who was the first virtuoso to play a programme consisting entirely of piano music and also the first to play it all from memory?

3. Which French composer's first work was entitled 'Opus 62' ?

4. Which italian composer was apprenticed to a blacksmith at the age of thirteen?

5. Which composer was also an assistant professor of chemistry at the Russian Academy of Medical and Physical Sciences?

Many thanks in advance.

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dr pop

4 is definitely Rossini

5 is definitely Borodin

Sorry cant be of more help - there are about 30-40 opus

62`s that i can think of but ain`t sure about which were first works

1.richard wagner

2.----------------

3.chopin

4.Rossini

5.Alexander Borodin

2 Franz Liszt

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Many thanks to you all, much appreciated!!

Chopin wasn't French, he was Polish...

Polish-born, but became a French citizen.

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