Music Preludes Quiz

What were the first preludes to be notated?

• Organ pieces

• Lute compositions

• Harpsichord suites

• Renaissance string instruments

Which composer was the first to embrace the genre of harpsichord preludes?

• Louis Couperin

• Jean-Henri d'Anglebert

• Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre

• François Couperin

Which German composer combined free improvised passages with strict contrapuntal writing in their preludes?

• Dieterich Buxtehude

• Nikolaus Bruhns

• Abraham van den Kerckhoven

• Johann Jakob Froberger

Who was one of the first German composers to bring the late 17th-century French style to German harpsichord music?

• Johann Sebastian Bach

• Johann Pachelbel

• Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

• Girolamo Frescobaldi

Which composer wrote a set of 24 preludes that liberated the prelude from its original introductory purpose?

• Frédéric Chopin

• Muzio Clementi

• Johann Nepomuk Hummel

• Ignaz Moscheles

Who composed two books of impressionistic piano preludes with descriptive titles?

• Frédéric Chopin

• Claude Debussy

• Alexander Scriabin

• Charles-Valentin Alkan

Which composer incorporated preludes into a Baroque-inspired suite called 'Le tombeau de Couperin'?

• Maurice Ravel

• Arnold Schoenberg

• Dmitri Shostakovich

• Olivier Messiaen

Who composed a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues in the tradition of Bach's The Well Tempered Clavier?

• Maurice Ravel

• Arnold Schoenberg

• Dmitri Shostakovich

• Olivier Messiaen

Which composer's preludes influenced many others to write sets of 12 or 24 preludes in all major and minor keys?

• Frédéric Chopin

• Johann Sebastian Bach

• Claude Debussy

• Alexander Scriabin

Which composer's preludes were written in the theme and variation form, using the same theme motif with imitation, inversion, modulation, or retrogression?

• Johann Sebastian Bach

• Johann Pachelbel

• Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

• Louis Couperin