 - 1. What is the typical duration of a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?
A) 70–80 minutes
B) 30–40 minutes
C) 10–20 minutes
D) 50–60 minutes
- 2. How many movements are in Symphony No. 5?
A) Three movements
B) Five movements
C) Six movements
D) Four movements
- 3. What is the tempo marking of the first movement?
A) Allegro con brio
B) Presto
C) Andante con moto
D) Adagio
- 4. How many notes make up the famous opening motif of the first movement?
A) Four notes
B) Six notes
C) Five notes
D) Three notes
- 5. Which classical predecessors did Beethoven inherit sonata form from?
A) Schubert and Brahms
B) Bach and Handel
C) Haydn and Mozart
D) Liszt and Wagner
- 6. What secondary key is established in the exposition of the first movement?
A) G major
B) E flat major
C) A flat major
D) C minor
- 7. What is the home key of the first movement?
A) G
B) F
C) C
D) D
- 8. Among Beethoven's symphonic first movements, how does the length of the first movement of No. 5 rank?
A) It is the shortest
B) It is of medium length
C) It varies randomly
D) It is the longest
- 9. Which instrument plays a brief and mournful recitative marked adagio during the recapitulation?
A) Solo cello
B) French horn
C) First oboe
D) First violin
- 10. What is the key of the second movement?
A) E♭ major
B) G major
C) C minor
D) A♭ major
- 11. What musical form is used in the second movement?
A) Ternary form
B) Sonata form
C) Double variation form
D) Rondo form
- 12. Which instruments introduce the first theme of the second movement?
A) Horns and oboes
B) Violas and cellos
C) Violins and flutes
D) Trumpets and timpanists
- 13. Which instruments provide the accompaniment when the first theme of the second movement is introduced?
A) First violins
B) Double basses
C) Clarinets
D) Bassoons
- 14. What is the musical form of the third movement?
A) Ternary form
B) Sonata form
C) Double variation form
D) Theme and variations
- 15. In which of Beethoven's symphonies did he first start using a scherzo as a 3rd movement?
A) 5th Symphony
B) 3rd Symphony
C) 1st Symphony
D) 2nd Symphony
- 16. Which symphony by Beethoven is an exception to his practice of using a scherzo as the third movement?
A) No. 8
B) No. 9
C) No. 3
D) No. 6
- 17. Which instruments play the opening theme of the third movement?
A) Horns and trumpets
B) Flutes and oboes
C) Violins and violas
D) Cellos and double basses
- 18. What key is the trio section of the third movement in?
A) C minor
B) E flat major
C) C major
D) A flat major
- 19. What texture is the trio section of the third movement written in?
A) Atonal texture
B) Monophonic texture
C) Contrapuntal texture
D) Homophonic texture
- 20. How is the scherzo performed when it returns for the final time?
A) Staccato and forte
B) Pizzicato and very quietly
C) Loudly with full brass
D) Arco and very fast
- 21. What instrument plays a long sequence of repeated notes during the transition passage to the final movement?
A) Contrabassoon
B) Timpani
C) Trombone
D) Snare drum
- 22. How is the finale played after the transition passage from the third movement?
A) Pizzicato
B) Silently
C) Adagio
D) Attacca
- 23. What is the opus number of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony?
A) Op. 55
B) Op. 67
C) Op. 68
D) Op. 21
- 24. By what alternative German name is Symphony No. 5 occasionally known?
A) Choral
B) Pastorale
C) Eroica
D) Schicksalssinfonie
- 25. In which city was the 5th Symphony first performed?
A) Bonn
B) Vienna
C) London
D) Paris
- 26. What pattern describes the opening motif of the 5th Symphony?
A) Long-short-short-long
B) Short-short-short-long
C) Short-long-short-long
D) Long-long-long-short
- 27. How is the opening motif of the symphony often characterized metaphorically?
A) A storm approaching
B) A victorious army marching
C) A bird singing in the woods
D) Fate knocking at the door
- 28. Which compositional period of Beethoven does the 5th Symphony fall squarely within?
A) Late Period
B) Early Period
C) Middle Period
D) Final Period
- 29. Around what year did Beethoven's 'Middle Period' of composition start?
A) 1805
B) 1800
C) 1808
D) 1803
- 30. What personal struggle troubled Beethoven's personal life during his mid-30s while composing the symphony?
A) Increasing deafness
B) Chronic insomnia
C) Vision loss
D) Severe arthritis
- 31. Which military leader's troops occupied Vienna in 1805?
A) Tsar Alexander I
B) Frederick the Great
C) Napoleon
D) Duke of Wellington
- 32. At which house in Vienna was the symphony written?
A) Theater an der Wien
B) Lobkowitz Palace
C) Pasqualati House
D) Heiligenstadt Testament House
- 33. On what date did the 5th Symphony premiere?
A) 2 November 1931
B) 22 December 1808
C) 7 December 1842
D) 15 April 1815
- 34. At which venue did the premiere of the 5th Symphony take place?
A) Pasqualati House
B) Vienna State Opera
C) Theater an der Wien
D) Conservatory of Paris
- 35. Who directed the music at the premiere of the 5th Symphony?
A) François-Antoine Habeneck
B) Beethoven himself
C) Johann Peter Salomon
D) Arturo Toscanini
- 36. In which month and year did the first printed edition of the symphony with its dedication appear?
A) January 1810
B) November 1805
C) April 1809
D) December 1808
- 37. Why did Beethoven have to stop the music and start again during the premiere concert?
A) The heating system caught fire
B) A string broke on his own violin
C) A mistake by one of the performers in the Choral Fantasy
D) A member of the audience fainted
- 38. Which publication featured E. T. A. Hoffmann's detailed review and analysis of the symphony?
A) Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
B) Wiener Zeitung
C) Leipziger Zeitung
D) Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung
- 39. Which distinguished violinist and conductor initially called the symphony 'rubbish' before retracting his statement?
A) Friedrich Kark
B) François-Antoine Habeneck
C) Courtenay Edward Stevens
D) Johann Peter Salomon
- 40. Who led the first French performance of the symphony in about 1828?
A) Arturo Toscanini
B) Friedrich Kark
C) François-Antoine Habeneck
D) Johann Peter Salomon
- 41. With which orchestra did the 5th Symphony play in the inaugural concerts on 7 December 1842 in the United States?
A) Boston Symphony Orchestra
B) New York Philharmonic
C) National Symphony Orchestra
D) Philadelphia Orchestra
- 42. On what date was the 5th Symphony played in the inaugural concerts of the US National Symphony Orchestra?
A) 15 April 1815
B) 2 November 1931
C) 22 December 1939
D) 7 December 1842
- 43. Which orchestra made the first recording of the 5th Symphony in 1910?
A) Odeon Orchestra under Friedrich Kark
B) Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
C) New York Philharmonic
D) BBC Symphony Orchestra
- 44. Which composer's 4th Symphony was particularly inspired by Beethoven's Fifth?
A) Tchaikovsky
B) Bruckner
C) Mahler
D) Brahms
- 45. Since which global conflict has the symphony sometimes been referred to as the 'Victory Symphony'?
A) Second World War
B) Napoleonic Wars
C) Franco-Prussian War
D) First World War
- 46. Which British leader popularized the 'V for Victory' campaign during WWII?
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) Neville Chamberlain
C) Winston Churchill
D) Clement Attlee
- 47. Who suggested using the four-note opening motif of the 5th Symphony to preface BBC broadcasts to Special Operations Executives?
A) Friedrich Kark
B) Courtenay Edward Stevens
C) Arturo Toscanini
D) Johann Peter Salomon
- 48. What instrument played the four-note opening motif during BBC wartime broadcasts to preface transmissions?
A) Drums
B) Timpani
C) Trumpets
D) Horns
- 49. Which Italian conductor performed the first movement of the symphony following the fall of Benito Mussolini in September 1943?
A) François-Antoine Habeneck
B) Friedrich Kark
C) Arturo Toscanini
D) Johann Peter Salomon
- 50. In what month and year did Arturo Toscanini complete the remaining movements of his performance after Germany was defeated?
A) September 1943
B) December 1944
C) June 1945
D) May 1945
- 51. What is the German term for the fate motif used in the symphony?
A) Schicksalssinfonie
B) Schicksals-Motiv
C) Fidelio
D) Appassionata
- 52. Which piano sonata was composed by Beethoven while he repeatedly interrupted his work on the 5th Symphony?
A) Appassionata
B) Pathétique
C) Waldstein
D) Moonlight
- 53. How many Razumovsky string quartets did Beethoven work on around the same period as the 5th Symphony?
A) One
B) Four
C) Three
D) Two
- 54. Besides the 3rd Symphony and the 5th Symphony, which opera exemplifies Beethoven's 'Middle Period' emphasis on heroism?
A) The Creatures of Prometheus
B) Missa Solemnis
C) Fidelio
D) Egmont
- 55. Which aspect of the concert conditions contributed to the poor critical response at the premiere?
A) A sudden rainstorm flooded the stage
B) The auditorium was extremely cold
C) There were no seats available
D) The auditorium was overwhelmingly hot
- 56. How many new players join the orchestra at the outset of the finale?
A) 5
B) 2
C) 4
D) 3
- 57. Which of the following instruments joins the orchestra at the start of the finale?
A) Clarinet
B) Oboe
C) Flute
D) Piccolo
- 58. Which brass instrument joins the orchestra at the start of the finale?
A) Trumpet
B) Horn
C) Tuba
D) Trombone
- 59. Which low woodwind instrument joins the orchestra at the start of the finale?
A) Bassoon
B) Bass clarinet
C) Contrabassoon
D) English horn
- 60. At the end of the development section, on what does the music halt?
A) A tonic chord, played pianissimo
B) A slow descending scale
C) A dominant cadence, played fortissimo
D) A silent pause with no sound
- 61. How many bars of C major chords, played fortissimo, end the symphony?
A) 40
B) 29
C) 15
D) 50
- 62. In what book does Charles Rosen discuss the ending reflecting Beethoven's sense of proportion?
A) The Classical Style
B) Beethoven's Compositional Process
C) The Symphony: Structure and Style
D) Music in the 19th Century
- 63. Who first pointed out that the third movement's theme shares sequence of intervals with Mozart's Symphony No. 40?
A) Charles Rosen
B) Lewis Lockwood
C) Gustav Nottebohm
D) Ludwig van Beethoven
- 64. Who is credited with the tale that the initial motif represents Fate knocking at the door?
A) Carl Czerny
B) Anton Schindler
C) Antony Hopkins
D) Ferdinand Ries
- 65. Whose version of the motif's origin mentions a yellow-hammer's song heard in the Prater-park?
A) Elizabeth Schwarm Glesner
B) Carl Czerny
C) Anton Schindler
D) Ferdinand Ries
- 66. According to Antony Hopkins, which origin story has the public preferred?
A) The conversation book
B) The yellow-hammer's song
C) The royal commission
D) Fate-at-the-door
- 67. In what year did Leonard Bernstein liken the Fate Motif to a 4-note coda in a television lecture series?
A) 1954
B) 1960
C) 1939
D) 1945
- 68. What television lecture series did Leonard Bernstein use in 1954 to discuss the symphony?
A) Symphony Live
B) Masterclass
C) Omnibus
D) The Bernstein Hours
- 69. Who does the text cite as the 'really author' of the poetic exegesis about Fate knocking at the gate, according to skeptical evaluations?
A) Ferdinand Ries
B) Carl Czerny
C) Charles Rosen
D) Anton Schindler
- 70. Who remarks that Beethoven had been known to say nearly anything to relieve himself of questioning pests?
A) Charles Rosen
B) Anton Schindler
C) Antony Hopkins
D) Elizabeth Schwarm Glesner
- 71. How is the key of C minor commonly regarded in relation to Beethoven?
A) A stormy, heroic tonality
B) A gentle, pastoral key
C) A tragic and hopeless key
D) A joyful and celebratory key
- 72. According to Charles Rosen, what does Beethoven in C minor come to symbolize?
A) His failing hearing
B) His artistic character
C) His classical restraint
D) His financial struggles
- 73. In C minor works, what figure does Beethoven reveal himself as?
A) Philosopher
B) Hero
C) Victim
D) Rebel
- 74. What does Charles Rosen say C minor does NOT show Beethoven at?
A) His most impatient
B) His most subtle
C) His most heroic
D) His most extroverted
- 75. In C minor, Beethoven appears to be most impatient of what?
A) Orchestral tuning
B) Any compromise
C) Publisher deadlines
D) Musical criticism
- 76. What type of bird is mentioned in Carl Czerny's account of the motif's origin?
A) Nightingale
B) Cuckoo
C) Sparrow
D) Yellow-hammer
- 77. Who stated that the opening motif is 'a rhythmic pattern (dit-dit-dit-dot) that makes its appearance in each of the other 3 movements'?
A) Peter Gutmann
B) Antony Hopkins
C) Richard Bratby
D) Doug Briscoe
- 78. According to the New Grove encyclopedia, in how much of the first movement is the famous opening motif heard?
A) Precisely half the bars
B) Only the very beginning
C) Almost every bar
D) Not at all in the first movement
- 79. In which movement do the horns play a solo where the short-short-short-long pattern occurs repeatedly?
A) The third movement
B) The fourth movement
C) The first movement
D) The second movement
- 80. In the coda of the finale, which instruments repeatedly play a similar rhythmic figure?
A) Piccolo players
B) Lead violins
C) Bass instruments
D) Solo flutes
- 81. How do some commentators view the resemblances of the motif in later movements?
A) Intentional and brilliant
B) Mathematically calculated
C) Accidental
D) Mandatory for all symphonies
- 82. Who discusses the theme in the scherzo and states that 'no musician with an ounce of feeling could confuse' the two rhythms?
A) Richard Bratby
B) Donald Tovey
C) Antony Hopkins
D) Doug Briscoe
- 83. Who pours scorn on the idea that a rhythmic motif unifies the symphony?
A) Doug Briscoe
B) Donald Tovey
C) Peter Gutmann
D) Richard Bratby
- 84. Which other Beethoven work features the same rhythmic motif, according to Donald Tovey?
A) Fur Elise
B) Missa Solemnis
C) The Ninth Symphony
D) The 'Appassionata' piano sonata
- 85. Besides the 'Appassionata' sonata, which concerto does Donald Tovey mention as containing the motif?
A) Violin Concerto in D major
B) First Piano Concerto
C) Triple Concerto
D) Fourth Piano Concerto
- 86. Which specific bars in Beethoven's 5th Symphony contain the Folia harmony?
A) Bars 200 to 215
B) Bars 1 to 12
C) Bars 50 to 65
D) Bars 166 to 177
- 87. Who analyzed Folia-aspects in Beethoven's oeuvre in 1982?
A) Ludwig van Beethoven
B) Reed J. Hoyt
C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D) Johann Sebastian Bach
- 88. In which journal was Reed J. Hoyt's 'Letter to the Editor' published?
A) The Musical Times
B) Journal of Music Theory
C) College Music Symposium
D) Classical Music Review
- 89. What volume number of the College Music Symposium featured Hoyt's letter?
A) 35
B) 10
C) 21
D) 50
- 90. Who specified trombones for a symphony in 1807 before Beethoven's use?
A) Jonathan Del Mar
B) Joachim Nicolas Eggert
C) Peter Gülke
D) Claudio Abbado
- 91. What is an autograph score?
A) The original version from the composer's hand
B) An orchestration by a later conductor
C) A printed edition by Peters
D) A modern performance recording
- 92. How are the scherzo and trio sections structured in the autograph score (using letters)?
A) ABBA
B) ABA'
C) ABABA'
D) AABBA
- 93. How do most modern printed editions render the 3rd movement structure?
A) AABBA
B) ABABA'
C) ABA'
D) ABBA
- 94. In the structural notation ABA', what does A represent?
A) Trio
B) Scherzo
C) Autograph
D) Finale
- 95. In the structural notation ABA', what does B represent?
A) Trio
B) Pizzicato strings
C) Scherzo
D) Finale
- 96. Is the repeat mark in the autograph likely an error by Beethoven?
A) Unlikely
B) Proven to be a printing mistake
C) Added by Peter Gülke
D) Very likely
- 97. What year is the Bagatelle for solo piano, Op. 33, No. 7 from?
A) 1999
B) 1802
C) 1978
D) 1807
- 98. Which publisher released Peter Gülke's edition in 1978?
A) New Philharmonia
B) Peters
C) Tonhalle
D) Bärenreiter
- 99. Who published an edition in 1999 advocating a return to ABA'?
A) David Zinman
B) Jonathan Del Mar
C) Pierre Boulez
D) Peter Gülke
- 100. Which publisher released Jonathan Del Mar's edition in 1999?
A) Universal
B) Bärenreiter
C) Peters
D) Schott
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