Here are the openings of 20 well-known works, or of movements within those works. Can you name the composer and the title of the work? Scroll down the page to check your answers.
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1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’, Movt. I
2. Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Movt. I
3. Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast, opening
4. Mahler: Symphony No. 2, Movt. I
5. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Movt. I
6. Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Movt. I
7. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1, Movt. I
8. Kodaly: Háry János Suite, Movt. I The Fairy Tale Begins
9. Mendelssohn: Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
10. Mahler: Symphony No. 5, Movt. 1
11. Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
12. Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, Act I: Prelude
13. Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre
14. Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Movt. II
15. Johann Strauss II: Pizzicato Polka
16. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
17. Penderecki: Threnody ‘To the Victims of Hiroshima’
18. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1, Movt I