Care To Consider A Quintessential Composers Quiz For Classical Connoisseurs?

Some of these may be a little tricky, some a little obscure, but this question is all in fun. So, enjoy!

1. One of Haydn’s early symphonies is noted primarily for it’s ‘walking 8s.’ Musically, what specific technique does the phrase refer to? For bonus points, which symphony and which movement is this quirky interpretation of physical movement found in?

2. Originally presented in 1910, revised or otherwise re-scored in 1911, 1919 and 1945, which version of this well-known composition is the more often one found in today’s symphonic repertoires? Knowing the answer, you already know both the composer and the name of the composition.

3. The son once said of his father’s orchestrations, “One thing the average layman doesn’t understand about my Dad’s perfectionism is this, when he replaced a C-sharp with a gunshot it had to be a C-sharp sounding gunshot or he wouldn’t use it.” Which rather well-known conductor, arranger and composer is the son referring to?

4. From F-major to sixty-something compressed Es, nothing like it had ever been composed before and nothing composed since is comparable. Name the composer, the name of the composition and the movement if you can?

5. Alfred Hitchcock once said of this well-esteemed contemporary composer, “Many composers express the world through rose colored glasses but he expresses the world without needing a prescription.” Which composer was Hitchcock referring to?

6. When Disco music was becoming the newest craze during the early 1970s a reporter asked Leonard Bernstein what he thought of the new sound? Bernstein, somewhat agitated, replied something like this, “New? What’s new about it? If I want to hear the original all I have to do is pull out the score to (here he mentions the name) and we play it ourselves.” What specific composition and what specific part of that composition by what famous composer was Bernstein mentioning?