Q 01/05

Which 1960s pop hit, later a number one for Phil Collins, borrows its tune from a Clementi sonatina?

A) The Game of Love

B) A Groovy Kind of Love

C) You Can't Hurry Love

D) Can't Help Falling in Love

Answer · why

B) A Groovy Kind of Love

A Groovy Kind of Love takes its melody from the rondo of a sonatina Clementi published in 1797. Songwriters Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager added the...

Q 02/05

On which festive date in 1781 did Muzio Clementi and Mozart duel at the keyboard before an emperor?

A) New Year's Eve

B) Easter Sunday

C) Christmas Eve

D) Twelfth Night

Answer · why

C) Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve 1781 was the night of the contest, staged as entertainment for the emperor's guests. Both men had to improvise and then perform pieces o...

Q 03/05

Muzio Clementi died in the market town of Evesham but was given a public burial in which famous church?

A) Westminster Abbey

B) St Paul's Cathedral

C) Canterbury Cathedral

D) York Minster

Answer · why

A) Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey laid him in its south cloister, and three of his own star pupils walked with the coffin. His gravestone speaks of a fame acknowledge...

Q 04/05

Which former British colony in Asia has a town called Clementi, named after a governor descended from Muzio Clementi?

A) Hong Kong

B) Sri Lanka

C) Myanmar

D) Singapore

Answer · why

D) Singapore

Singapore's Clementi town honours a governor of the Straits Settlements from the composer's family: either his grandson Sir Cecil Clementi Smith or hi...

Q 05/05

Mozart borrowed the opening motif of a Clementi sonata for the overture to which of his operas?

A) The Magic Flute

B) Don Giovanni

C) The Marriage of Figaro

D) Così fan tutte

Answer · why

A) The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute overture reuses the opening of Clementi's B-flat major sonata. Clementi later added a note to reprints pointing out that his sonata wa...