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