Music History and Composers

Kuroki is a trumpet player in the Nodame Cantabile series, not an oboist. The female oboe player who develops feelings for Chiaki is actually Kiyora, not Kuroki.

Zubin Mehta is a world-renowned classical music conductor. Robbie Williams, Kenny G, and Phil Collins are pop/rock musicians. Harshad Mehta was a stockbroker, not a musician at all - making him a distractor. Among all options, Zubin Mehta is the only true classical music maestro.

Amadeus (1984) is the Academy Award-winning film about composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, directed by Milos Forman. The film dramatizes the rivalry between Mozart and court composer Antonio Salieri, with F. Murray Abraham winning an Oscar for playing Salieri. It won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.

All three were famous Hungarian composers: Liszt (19th century Romantic composer), Bartók (20th century modernist composer and ethnomusicologist), and Kodály (composer and music educator). They are internationally celebrated for their musical contributions, not writing, science, or sports.

This famous opening line is from Duke Orsino's speech in Act 1, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'. The line expresses his desire for excessive music to cure his love-sickness. A.R. Rahman is a modern composer, while Keats and Wordsworth were Romantic poets who lived centuries after Shakespeare.

Elton John composed the music for 'Candle in the Wind'. Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics, not the music. Marilyn Monroe was the subject of the original song, not the composer. The song was later rewritten for Princess Diana.

Gio Paolo Maggini (1580-1630) was a renowned Italian luthier (violin maker) from Brescia whose instruments are highly prized. The other options are all performers: Amjad Ali Khan is a sarod maestro, Agustin Barrios was a classical guitarist and composer, and Sarah Blasko is a contemporary singer-songwriter.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous musical is indeed adapted from Gaston Leroux's novel 'The Phantom of the Opera,' a classic gothic tale set in the Paris Opera House. The other musicals listed are based on different source materials.

'Summertime' is the most famous aria from George Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess' premiering in 1935. The opera tells the story of Porgy, a disabled man living in Charleston, South Carolina. 'Summertime' is a lullaby sung by Clara to her baby in Act 1 and has become a jazz standard.

An actor is a person who performs in a play. Similarly, a musician is a person who performs in a concert. The relationship is 'performer : performance setting.' The other options are incorrect because: symphony is what musicians play (not the performer), piano is an instrument used by musicians, and percussion is a type of instrument or instrument section.

Nico Muhly composed the original score for the 2008 Hollywood film 'The Reader'. A.R. Rahman is a renowned Indian composer, Claire Simpson is a film editor, and Stephen Daldry was the director of the film, not the music director.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was Austrian, born in Salzburg in 1756. While he worked in Vienna and traveled throughout Europe, he was born in the Holy Roman Empire (modern-day Austria). Germany didn't exist as a unified country then, and he wasn't Italian or Irish.

Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano around 1700 in Florence, Italy. His 'gravicembalo col piano e forte' (harpsichord with soft and loud) solved the problem of dynamic control in keyboard instruments. Leon Theremin invented the theremin, Su Song was a Chinese engineer, and Richard James Burgess is a contemporary producer.

The sentence means 'He likes Beethoven very much, but he doesn't like Mozart.' 'Mag' is the third person singular of 'mögen' (to like). 'Soll' means 'should', 'möchte' means 'would like', and 'mage' is not a valid German verb form.