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The BBC Music Magazine PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 375

THE QUIZ

It’s time to put your classical music knowledge to the test…

1. Composed from 1791-95, how are Haydn’s Symphonies Nos 93-104 collectively known?

2. ‘Ondine’, ‘Le Gibet’ and ‘Scarbo’ are the three movements of which tricky piano work from 1908?

3. Name the female opera characters who sent the following to an early grave: a) Baron Scarpia (1900); b) Lord Arturo Bucklaw (1835); c) Hagen (1876).

The 12-part , known as the ‘Earthquake Mass’, is the work of

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