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The composer Richard Wagner was a native of what nation which now honors him as a figure of cultural importance?
Greece
Poland
Germany
France
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Of Wagner's operas, his most prolific are probably those that make up what four-part musical cycle about Norse mythology?
The Fires of Ambition
The Marriage of Figaro
The Ring of the Nibelung
The Spirelight Chronicles
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One of the most famous individual songs by Richard Wagner is "The Ride of the (Blank)." Fill in the blank with the name of the feminine warrior spirits responsible for escorting dead warriors to Valhalla in Norse mythology.
Fimbulvetr
Valkyries
Ragnaroks
Bismingir
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Richard Wagner was a central figure of what artistic period of music?
The Renaissance
The Baroque Period
The Classical Period
The Romantic Period
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Wagner stood out among other opera composers because he wrote both the music and text of his operas. What is the technical term for the text of operas?
Libretto
Cacophony
Melody
Glissando
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What is the name of the famous concert overture that Wagner wrote to relate the fable of a scholar who made a deal with a devil to gain further knowledge?
The Godfrey Overture
The Sieglinde Overture
The Icarus Overture
The Faust Overture
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The third opera of The Ring of the Nibelung series was named for what Norse hero who slayed the dragon Fafnir?
Randolph
Merrick
Siegfried
Allonte
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The fourth and final opera of The Ring of the Nibelung series was called Gotterdammerung, which translates to which of the following?
And Then There Were None
The Twilight of the Gods
Crashing Down Comes Thunder
The Falling of the World
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Wagner helped to popularize what musical concept which assigned specific melodies to represent specific people, places, and ideas?
Requiem
Harmony
Leitmotif
Counterpoint
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Wagner wrote what opera about a legendary knight of the round table who quested after the Holy Grail?
Parsifal
Lancelot
Tristan
Ector
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What famous opera did Wagner write about the legendary son of Parsifal who traveled in a swan-carried boat to save a maiden?
Galahad
Beowulf
Lohengrin
Charlemagne
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What is the name of the opera that Wagner wrote about a doomed love between a knight of the round table and his uncle's wife?
Lancelot and Guinevere
Bors and Alayna
Kay and Marguerite
Tristan and Isolde
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Wagner helped popularize the artistic idea of Gesamtkunstwerk, a German term that means which of the following?
The moral gravity of art
The incorrect themes of art
The total work of art
The general feeling of art
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Wagner was forced to live in exile from Germany starting in 1849 after he was loosely associated with a violent uprising by constitutionalist-monarchists in what German city?
Dusseldorf
Munich
Dresden
Nuremberg
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To put on his own productions, Richard Wagner ordered the construction of an opera house that still stands in what German town as a monument to the composer's legacy?
Bayreuth
Kessersponte
Walden
Rosewald
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Andrew Nicholas is a passionate reader and writer on the subjects of history and mankind. He is a published author, critic, and poet who grew up in the friendly scenery of rural Ohio. He is a graduate of Wright State University and a regular student of historical curiosities.