Author Question: Which Austrian composer, born in a humble farmhouse, was by the end of his life the most famous ... (Read 81 times)

maychende · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Which Austrian composer, born in a humble farmhouse, was by the end of his life the most famous composer in Western Europe, a distinction attained by dint of talent and hard work?

A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
B) Johann Stamitz
C) Ludwig van Beethoven
D) Joseph Haydn

Question 2

This composer began his career as a violinist; after the First World War he taught music in Berlin, but emigrated to Switzerland and the United States during the years of the Second World War. He returned to Europe in the 1950s where he increasingly occupied himself with conducting.

A) Arnold Schoenberg
B) Anton Webern
C) Paul Hindemith
D) Kurt Weill