Guess the Symphony (Classical music Test) Part I (HARD)
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- Classical music test "Guess the Symphony" Part I (HARD).
Can you guess 15 symphonies by hearing music in 15 seconds?
If you have troubles - you may choose symphony from List in 10 seconds.
This experimental classic music test format is differs from other tests and quizes.
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Have listened to symphonies for years but genuinely had no idea about symphonies composed by Myaskovsky and Hohvaness. Thanks for the education!
Thank you, this is all the advice and recommendations from the comments))
Same here, I guess the reason for our unfamiliarity is that they're rarely played on most classical radio stations. I listen to streams from Europe, Canada and USA, but lack knowledge of those two
Me, who only listens to Haydn's late symphonies, seeing that the numbers don't go beyond 15:
Oh noe...
Haydn is almost a champion in symphonies)) Dittersdorf is first with 120 symphonies. I hope later numbers will appear in the video.
@@adiosmusictest I didn't know Dittersdorf had composed that much!
@@adiosmusictest Does Leif Segerstam with his 300-ish count? :)
@@utvpoop I saw his various performances as a conductor, but to my shame I had no idea that he wrote so many symphonies..
Yeah, thanks bro! Finally a quiz that is actually challenging. Most videos here on YT are waaaay too easy and I don't want to guess Chopin op. 9 No. 2 for the 128th time. :D
This channel also has easier quizzes. But I plan to release more complex ones, they evoke a good feedback from listeners. The main thing is to make fewer mistakes, since there is a lot of fake information about composers on the Internet.
7/15. Was careless with a couple of them, but thank goodness I know the Shostakovich pretty much by heart. Much harder than I expected, well done. More, please.
Mahler 10 is for me easily recognisable within a second. Such a unique sound.
I don't really know the symphony itself, but I heard it and thought "oh that's got to be Mahler, and probably quite late". Turns out my instincts were correct!
Nice quiz!. It certainly was a challenge. I got ten composers right but only six symphony numbers right.
Thanks. I listened to half of the symphonies for the first time when I maked the test))
Same.
Me too - got most of the composers but only a couple of the numbers.
Exactly the same result as I got!!
@@mvuorsalo82 😀
8/15! you make such great quizzes, keep it up!!
I got 10 correct (both comp. and number), 3 only composer, 2 wrong (Myaskovskij and Hovhanness). Nice quiz!
Exact same results for me. Haydn and Mozart were excusable, but I should have known Mahler was 10th.
8 and 8….and the intro and outro is Schubert 5! Was hoping for Kalinnikov to be no. 1
Thanks for the recommendations. I’ll definitely try to add Kalinnikov in future videos.
I was hoping for Scriabin Symphony 1, but I'm happy with Prokofiev too
This was a great challenging quiz! I think I got 11 of them... Really fun.
Great quiz. Got 12.
Thank you for including Hovhaness and Myaskovsky. When I was a music major in college, I learned about Hovhaness and his music from the professor who taught music theory at the school. Hovhaness was one of this professor's favorite composers.
For experts indeed but I learned something new.
NICE IDEA!!
Thank you. I will continue to try something new.
Really fun!! Thank you
Thanks for comment!
there are so many pieces left to listen to, and it's such a bless!
Absolutely agree!
Thirty years as a classical music critic and I never heard a Myaskovski or Hohvaness symphony in live performance. Really stumped me.
I am very amazed and at the same time happy at the level of education of the audience. During these days, I saw a lot of names in the comments, which I also heard for the first time)). Later I added them to new videos.
7 guessed fully plus Mozart and Haydn. This is going to become increasingly difficult as AI starts 'composing'... Thanks very much.
Brahms' 3rd racket 😂😂
Is that you, Basil?
I got this in the first second. But I had just listened to it earlier today.
Whole morning. Heard about three bars!😂
@@philipelwell4214 you could have done the moose and the picture if you hadn't spent the whole morning skulking in there...
Great quiz! Got everything except Myaskovsky and Hovhaness, guessed Haydn and Mozart, but didn't know the exact numbers of these symphonies. Thank you! :)
Thanks for your feedback. Guessing the composer is much easier than guessing the symphony number))
@@adiosmusictest True, especially with composers who wrote unbelievable amount of symphonies))
I got 12/15.
You started and ended with Schubert Nr. 5. I got 11 straight, 2 with the correct composer (Haydn, Mozart) and failed on Myaskovsky and Hohvannes. Wonderful!!
Got 8 of them outright by knowing; guessed on Mozart and Haydn, not knowing the numbers but the composers only. Flubbed on 5, including the Reformation symphony. G-r-r-r-r-r!!
Thanks. This gave me a couple of composers to explore (Myaskovsky and Hovhaness)
Yes, these are the most frequently mentioned composers in the comments.
Loved it, though mixing up my Mozart and Haydn, and not expecting Miaskovsky screwed me over! 8/15 and a huge dollop of enjoyment. Thank you: more please!!
Thanks. I'll definitely do something more interesting.
Nice vid, keep it up buddy
Thanks for support!
I actually got 10/15 surprisingly (though Sibelius was a complete guess)
I mostly listen to piano music (with the exception of Brahms symphonies, I csn listen to those 24/7).
Symphonies I genuinely need to be in the mood for
This was such a fun format! Maybe round two next? I got 8/15! Ive actually played 3-7 from this list, but I missed all the two digit ones except the Shosty lol.
Thank you. I decided to try this format, but did not plan a second part. Now maybe I'll change my mind!
That was fun, thanks. For 8 got both name and number correct. I knew I was hearing Mozart, Mahler and Haydn but no idea what number.
Haydn and Mozart have a very large selection of symphonies(107 and 48).
What made me say Mahler 10 was the F# major chord at the beginning. No other composer orchestrates that the way Mahler does.
Holy crap - picking Hovhaness' 15th and Mahler's 10th were absolutely brutal!!! I got 4 of them, and feel good about that!
Didn't know the last one was Prokofiev.
8/15 and three halves where I got the composer right but had no idea of which symphony it was! To recognise the Mahler 10 when I haven't listened to it for years was very satisfying 😊.
Now, that was hard. I guessed 5 symphonies right and I also recognised Mozart's style. Also, I was lucky with Dmitri because I knew he was prolific so you would have chosen one of his symphonies beyond the 10th.
Absolutely right, choosing after number 10 is much more difficult than before))
Great quiz and I’m happy to see Alan Hovhaness on the list. Next, maybe you could have Copland’s third or one of the symphonies of Vaughan Williams.
You are simply a unique viewer who, unlike most, is happy about Hovhaness))
Very hard! I knew Dvorak and Shostakovich, and guessed Mozarts number correctly and also Schubert. Never heard of 2 of those composers.
The Hovhaness one caught me completely by surprise. Myaskovsky I guessed it had to be in somewhere, just because I don't know of many more composers with more than 9 symphonies which are relatively well-known.
7/15 + 5 composers - proud I distinguished haydn and mozart :)
I was waiting for CPE Bach, Louis Spohr, Anton Bruckner, Carl Neilsen, Sergei Rachmaninov, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Camille Saint Saëns, Ralph Vaughn Williams, George Lloyd, Arnold Bax, Karol Szymanowsky, Carl Vine and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt and Richard Strauss (and many others) wrote some great symphonies, but did not number them.
This was not the last video and almost all of them will appear gradually))
I got five; now I have some new symphonies to add to my study list!
Sure, let's have some more please...
Glad to help you learn new things!
That was actually quite hard, only got 8 of those. The only Hovaness I know is on an old cassette with a symphony that includes the sounds of whales!
Thanks, nice quiz. There were a couple of composers I was unfamiliar with and did not have a clue, a few others were very familiar but I could not name the symphony, and the remainder I was able to name.
Thanks. This is exactly what happens to most people. The composer can be identified, but the symphony is often not.
Oh Myaskovsky and Hovhannes were tough. I'm a musicologist and work for a German orchestra, but I think I've never ever even read of both in a concert program anywhere in Germany. So thanks for the inspiration.
It's always nice to read comments like this, that the videos were used not just as entertainment, but as help or inspiration. Thank you.
Hovhaness and Myaskovsky, hard to guess… knowing only s few specific repertoire from them.
Got all others easily, just hard to find the numbers for Haydn and Mozart, seriously, in these youth symphonies, though styles are easily recognizable.
Nice quiz!
Thank you, now these are the most mentioned names in the comments))
Myaskovskij and Hovhanness got me lol
I got 9. Almost tricked me with Schubert by using the SECOND movement.
1. Brahms 3 (of 4)
2. Beethoven 7 (of 9)
3. Mendelssohn 5 (of 5)
4. Tchaikovsky 6 (of 6)
5. ?
6. Schumann 4 (of 4)
7. ?
8. Mahler 10 (of 10, unfinished)
9. Haydn ? (of 100+)
10. Dvorak 9 (of 9)
11. Mozart ? (of 41)
12. Schubert ? (of 7)
13. Shostakovich 12 (of 15)
14. ?
15. Prokofiev 1 (of 7)
7/12
I got 3 composers wrong and 3 wrong numbers for the correct ones. It’s amazing how sometimes a brief excerpt can throw you, I even got the wrong number for Brahms a composer whose symphonies I thought I knew so well. Good quiz, really gets you thinking.
You have an excellent result. It seems to me that in almost every symphony you can find a piece that will confuse everyone.
The ones I missed were the Myaskovsky, the Hohvaness, the Mahler and the Haydn . I am a classically traines musician but I had to think hard on those. I am less familiar with the first two but should have guessed the Mahler and Haydn. My bad. Excellent test though to give at a party or to one up someone you want to get even with.
It's nice to receive good feedback from a specialist. Although Haydn could really be guessed)). Mahler is more difficult and Myaskovsky and HoVHaness are very rarely guessed))
Mahler 10 sounds exactly like Bruckner!!!
Mahler is more Art Nouveau.
Fun quiz! I missed Mayakovsky and Hovahanessl and my jaw dropped when I misstook Tchaikovsky for Rachmaninoff. What is wrong with me!? You made some challenging and interesting choices.
Thanks for your feedback. While working, I thought that most would complain about the greater complexity. But on the contrary, everyone liked it. I am glad!
Well, I got all the composers except Bruckner, Hovaness and Miaskovsky, but missed several numbers. Love the Dvorak recording, btw, very nice tempo.
Wonderful choices, btw. Sibelius, Prokofiev, Mendelssohn. And the opening symphony, is Schubert 3, right? Hmmmm maybe Schubert five.
Yes, it's n⁰5, the "Little" Symphony :)
Glad you liked the choice of music. There was a bad entry with Dvorak in the previous part, but this one is good)). Intro - Schubert Sym.N.5.
There was no Bruckner.
I was waiting for Bruckner, and when only two remained, I thought it being Bruckner 1 and Rachmaninoff 2
Thanks. Bruckner will be in the next video(Part VI) in a few days.
J’ai commencé à écouter la musique classique il y a un an et demi et j’ai néanmoins su trouver 5 symphonies (et 6 compositeurs, la 7ème de Beethoven m’était sortie de la tête). Beaucoup de noms que je connais justement que de nom et d’autres m’étant absolument inconnus (qui est donc ce Myaskovsky, Hovahness ??) Il y a tellement à découvrir !
Thanks for the quizz
Eh bien, c'est un quiz très difficile, donc le résultat est excellent. J'avais besoin de compositeurs rares car ils étaient capables d'écrire plus de 9 symphonies, ce qui est très important pour mon format vidéo))
What a fun test. I got 8 composers and correct symphony number, plus 2 more composers but wrong symphony number. Quite pleased really! ☺
The result for this test is excellent!
Beethoven seven, Dvorak nine, and I would have known first as well as Prokofiev if it had been presented earlier.
The one time I heard it live in concert it was an amateur chamber orchestra and thr concert mistress was tuned a quarter-tone sharp for the entire first movement.
The concert ended with a rousing and perfectly pitched performance of the Schumann _Konzertstucke_ for Four Horns and orchestra. I was amazed that the chamber orchestra wasn't overpowered by the concertino group.
And I knew one of the bass players in the orchestra was a past state road race champion bicyclist, fellow I had met in college, a really nice guy and a true example of top-notch sportsmanship.
I really like it when users share their life stories related to music. Thank you.
Why were the later excerpts played back at a faster tempo?
Darn, I only got 5, but for 4, 6, 10, 13 and 14 I had the right composer and was off by one or two... that was fun!
This got me RIPPING my hair out
You should do it again and skip the one-per-number game. By the end it was pretty easy to guess who was going to fill out 2 (Bruckner or Sibelius) and 1 (Bizet or Prokofiev).
10 out of 15, but I had a brain fart on Schubert’s 8th
This is an excellent result for this test.
Very nice. Give us more. And this time, include some Bruckner instead of fringe composers.
Brückner will definitely be there soon. Little-known composers are also useful, you will learn something new. In addition, small problems stimulate listeners even more.
@@adiosmusictest You're right, and my comment may have sounded a bit harsh. It's just I was surprised to see every major symphonist included except my favorite!
@@francoismagne5863agreed - Bruckner is at the level of only LvB, FJH and WAM. Everyone else is fringe, though Sibelius is major fringe.
Guessed Mahler
Only recognised Shostakovich, beethoven and Dvorak
Cool. Too many of the classical quizes are way too easy. I got eight composers and six symphony numbers right and I'm very pleased with that.I've never even heard of Hovhaness and Myaskovsky, and Haydn and Mozart have a lot of symphonies.
Most users are not experts, so they like something simpler)) Hovhaness and Myaskovsky are not very famous, but listeners have already asked me to put him(Myaskovsky) in video))
Only 7 right but should've got one more. 1 or 2 were lucky guesses 😂
Schubert's 5th symphony
8.
9 out of 15. Myskovsky and Hovaness were unfair. So I have adjusted my score to 9 out of 13, a respectable result, but not outstanding.
HArd hard
11
I kind of expected Miaskovski and Hovhanness to show up but I did not know either piece well enough to pick correctly. The Haydn I guessed right but not the number. Mozart got me.
A person who guesses 15 out of 15 would already scare me. But you are close to it))
I could figure out Hovhaness because I have played two of his symphonies. He has a style. No way I could guess which one it was.
You are 1 person out of 1000 here who is acquaintanced with his works))
Schubert 5 starts! Simple
8 composers correct - only 5 of the right symphony numbers. Always great to hear Prokofiev 1st. I was waiting for Bruckner to show up but he was absent! :)
Thanks. Brückner has already appeared in other videos and will appear more than once!
I got 8 exactly right, 2 more I had the correct composer and was between 2 numbers, and a further 2 I had the correct composer and the totally wrong number
I guessed correctly for maybe half of these symphonies and I have been a musician for most of my life. I was born and raised in a musically literate house with a mother was a music teacher. She taught me how to play the piano when I was six years old. Her favorite de-composers were Chopin, Sibelius, Prokofiev, Liszt, Debussy, and Gershwin. My father's favorite de-composer was Ludwig von Beethoven. The only recommendation I would suggest to improve this Guess The Symphony quiz is not to include any of the four symphonies by Johannes Brahms because his symphonies are not as good as any other composers works for orchestra. I do like Brahms' other works for orchestra and I do enjoy playing his piano music. By the time I was a teenager, I was already a good enough sight reader to be able to listen to all four of Brahms' symphonies with the scores in front of me and follow along with the music with no problem whatsoever. I did this because I was trying to figure out why I did not like Brahms' symphonies.
Thank you for such a detailed comment. It's always very interesting. Many people write in the comments: I don’t like Rossini or Brahms’ symphonies, but others do, and I do. So you will have to be patient a little)). Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Beethoven - Great Choice.
When I listened to Brahms' symphonies, something felt "off" and not quite right about them. Also, my mother didn't think I should spend time and/or effort listening to the symphonies of W.A. Mozart or Joseph Haydn or the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti.
No Bruckner?
Beethoven 2nd movement symphony 5
lmao i only got new world symphony, mozart, tchaikovsky, and schubert
Nice quiz indeed. Missed the other Russians despite of Tchaikovsky. Nine correct is not very good I think.
I did phenomenally badly considering I knew but one of the composers. An off day hopefully. All were very familiar but the numbering caught be out in a few cases.
i only got 6 7 9 12 and 13
Schumann 4
9/15. Hovhaness was the only one I had never heard, so I was excused. I should have recognized Myaskovsky’s 11th, as I wrote the MGG entry on the composer, but it is among my least favorite works by that composer. In four more instances-Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Mahler-I recognized the composer but not the work.
Thank you. Which Myaskovsky symphonies are the best for your taste?
My favorites: 3 to 6, 15-16, 22, 24.
There are lots of prolific and good symphonic composers out there, but without a decent numbering system, e.g. Vanhal, Dittersdorf, Cannabich, Myslivecek, Michael Haydn, Leopold Mozart, CPE Bach, JC Bach, JCF Bach, WF Bach, Wranitzky, Witt, Reicha, Krommer, Fesca, Ries, Potter, Zimmerman, JL Dussek...
Notice that these are all 17th/early 18th century composers (I think they're all on YT, incidentally). After that date, very few people wrote multiple symphonies, though Hovhaness is an obvious exception.
Incidentally, I didn't guess Myaskovsky, I've got all his symphonies, but I haven't listened to them yet :(
You're absolutely right about the numbering and I'm trying to come up with a new guessing concept for them.
Beethoven 7 was easy but that is one weird performance
I got 11 straight away; two others - I knew the composers but got the symphony number wrong (So sorry, Robert and Felix). And the other two, I don’t think I’d ever heard before - and I’m keen to listen to a lot more from Myaskovsky and Hovhaness.
I am not delighted with the work of Myaskovsky and Hovaness, but they have more symphonies than many others))
Missed the miaskovsky, got the wrong Brahms and Mendelssohn. So ashamed.
I won't tell anyone about your mistakes))
Schubert symphony no 5 in b flat major
My O level set work 1968
I only got Prokofiev, Beethoven, Shostakovich and Dvorak. Shame on me.
I missed 5, which was stupid, also 11 and 15, but I don't think much of those composers. And 13 and 14 were lucky guesses, arguably interchangeable.
There are not many famous composers who have more than 10 symphonies)) Therefore, not very famous ones appeared on the list!
Well... Haydn has 104 numbered symphonies (plus stragglers), Mozart has 41 (again, with stragglers), Shostakovich has 15.
Who is the conductor of Sibelius 2 - Mravinsky?
Svetlanov? He recorded them all.
@peterhumphreys9201
Those horns definitely have Russian players!
Nice! I did not guess Myaskovsky and Shostakovich. Mozart and Haydn were both rather difficult, but I responded correctly. Why no French, English or American symphonies?
There was no intention here, it happened by accident.
Hohvaness is American.
@@sciagurrato1831 Hohvaness thought of himself as Armenian, I think.
Nice challenge. It was easy to recognize Haydn and Mozart, but frankly impossible to understand which was the right early symphony of both. I did not recognize Myaskovsky at all (too many symphonies to remember them all 😉), I had the suspect that the 15th was Hovhaness, but could not recognize the number. The rest was easy, at least for me.
Which was the conductor who chose that breackneck tempo for the second movement of Mendelssohn's 5th symphony?
You have a very high level if even little-known composers gave you almost no problems. The conductor was Jörg Widmann.
@@adiosmusictest Thanks: I did not know that recording of the Reformation symphony, I am used for that movement to much more mesaured tempi (e.g. Karajan in his really wonderful complete recording of Mendelssohn's symphonies).
Frankly speaking in this challenge, the little known composers were only Myaskovsky and Hovhaness and I did not recgnize any of the two (I frankly confess that for symphony 15 I was ready to hear to Shostakovich's one, which instead was used for the 12th ;-))
Interesting but hard... I only could guess 6.
This is very good because the test is very difficult.
I could guess all the composers except Miaskovski and Hohvannes. I did not give the right symphony numbers for Schumann and Haydn.
Which symphony was in the intro? I'm sure it was Mozart, but can't remember which number.
schubert 5 first movement
Almost Mozart, I thought about putting Symphony 40 in the intro, but it was too banal.
@@thatfntasynerd2094 Thanks for help!
@@thatfntasynerd2094 Tschaka. But it´s more than 30 years I played it.
10 composer + number, 2 composer with wrong number.
Tch 6…
8/15 composers. 6/15 symphonies.
Indeed, it is much easier to recognize a composer than to remember the number of a specific symphony.
OK, nobody gets 11 or 15, and I got all the rest so I'm counting my result as 100%? OK, fine, I admit I goofed on Schubert 8 and nobody knows which Mozart or Haydn symphonies those were. Eeh.
you really like Schubert's No.5, don't you?🤭