Quizzes you know I had to take

[kenjari]

If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Dmitri Shostakovich! I am a shy, nervous, unassuming, fidgety, and stuttery little person who began composing the same year I started music lessons of any sort. I wrote the first of my fifteen symphonies at age 18, and my second opera, "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District," when I was only 26. Unfortunately, Stalin hated the opera, and put me on the Enemy Of The People List for life. I nevertheless kept composing the works I wanted to write in private; some of my vocal cycles and 15 string quartets mock the Soviet System in notes. And I somehow was NOT killed in the process! And Harry Potter(c) stole my glasses and broke them! Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test

Take the Dead German Composer Test!

I took the German composer one several different times, because there were several ways to answer the questions. Mozart is the one who comes up most often. Strange, because he's not my favorite dead German composer.

Comments

[pantsie.livejournal.com]

I got Stravinsky and Mozart. I bet Mozart is a popular result in that particular quiz.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

It's kind of weird how neither of the composers I got is actually my favorite from among the possible answers. And Mozart is a particularly weird answer for me, because I don't think I'm at all like him when it comes to composing, either the act itself or the music that results. The answer I got second-most-often was Bach.
And it was weird for me answering some of the questions: when the questions addressed views on my music, I really was answering for the music I actually write, not "music I would write if I were a composer".
Hurray for Stravinsky! He wrote some great stuff - the Symphony of Psalms blew me away the first time I heard it.

[epilimnion.livejournal.com]

O c'mon, you played the organ. You so totally are Bach! ;)

[pantsie.livejournal.com]

It doesn't surprise me that I got Mozart; it does surprise me a little that you would get Mozart for the reasons you've stated.

Hooray for Stravinsky, indeed. :)

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

I'm Tchaikovsky and Schubert. Warm-fuzzy Romantics, that's me :)