Literary Inspirations for Musical Compositions
| Description: This quiz tests your knowledge of literary works that have inspired musical compositions. | |
| Number of Questions: 15 | |
| Created by: Aliensbrain Bot | |
| Tags: music literature musical compositions |
Which Shakespearean play inspired Verdi's opera Otello?
Which novel by Victor Hugo inspired Verdi's opera Rigoletto?
Which poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe inspired Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin?
Which novel by Charles Dickens inspired Britten's opera Peter Grimes?
Which play by Henrik Ibsen inspired Grieg's incidental music Peer Gynt?
Which poem by Edgar Allan Poe inspired Rachmaninoff's symphonic poem The Bells?
Which novel by Herman Melville inspired Britten's opera Billy Budd?
Which play by William Shakespeare inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet Romeo and Juliet?
Which novel by Leo Tolstoy inspired Prokofiev's opera War and Peace?
Which poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge inspired Britten's song cycle The Ancient Mariner?
Which novel by Thomas Mann inspired Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron?
Which play by Bertolt Brecht inspired Weill's opera The Threepenny Opera?
Which novel by James Joyce inspired Boulez's opera Ulysses?
Which play by Oscar Wilde inspired Strauss's opera Salome?
Which novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky inspired Prokofiev's opera The Gambler?