Beethoven trivia quiz questions with answers
What year was Ludwig van Beethoven born?
Answer: 1770
In which city was Beethoven born?
Answer: Bonn, Germany
What was the name of Beethoven's father?
Answer: Johann van Beethoven
What instrument did Beethoven first learn to play?
Answer: The piano
What is the name of Beethoven's famous piece for solo
piano, also known as "Moonlight Sonata"?
Answer: Piano Sonata No. 14
What is the name of Beethoven's most famous symphony?
Answer: Symphony No. 9 (also known as the "Choral Symphony")
How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?
Answer: 9
What was the name of Beethoven's patron who helped
support him financially?
Answer: Archduke Rudolf of Austria
What is the name of the deafness disorder that
Beethoven suffered from?
Answer: Tinnitus
What is the name of the famous piece for piano and
violin that Beethoven composed?
Answer: The "Kreutzer" Sonata
What was the name of Beethoven's younger brother who he
helped raise?
Answer: Caspar van Beethoven
What was the name of Beethoven's only opera?
Answer: Fidelio
What is the name of the famous string quartet that
Beethoven composed?
Answer: The "Late" Quartets
What was the name of Beethoven's friend and fellow
composer who he dedicated his Symphony No. 3 to?
Answer: Franz Joseph Haydn
What is the name of the famous symphony that Beethoven
composed during his stay in Vienna that is dedicated to his patron?
Answer: Eroica Symphony
What was the name of the woman Beethoven fell in love
with, who inspired his famous "Immortal Beloved" letter?
Answer: Antonie Brentano
What is the name of the famous orchestral piece that
Beethoven composed to commemorate the Battle of Wellington?
Answer: Wellington's Victory
What is the name of the famous composition that
Beethoven composed for a poem by Friedrich Schiller?
Answer: "Ode to Joy"
What is the name of Beethoven's only violin concerto?
Answer: Violin Concerto in D major
How old was Beethoven when he began to lose his
hearing?
Answer: 26
What is the name of the famous piece that Beethoven
composed for solo piano, also known as the "Appassionata"?
Answer: Piano Sonata No. 23
What was the name of the woman who Beethoven proposed
to, but was rejected by?
Answer: Therese von Brunswick
What is the name of the famous composition that
Beethoven composed for a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
Answer: Egmont Overture
What is the name of Beethoven's only opera written in
German?
Answer: Leonore
What was the name of Beethoven's nephew who he fought
for custody of?
Answer: Karl van Beethoven
What was the name of the piece that Beethoven composed
for piano and orchestra that was inspired by the sight of the River Danube?
Answer: Piano Concerto No. 5 (also known as the "Emperor Concerto")
What was the name of Beethoven's publisher who printed
many of his works?
Answer: Breitkopf & Härtel
What is the name of the famous composition that
Beethoven composed for piano, violin, and cello?
Answer: The "Archduke" Trio