Antonio Salieri Quiz Questions and Answers
Q1. In which year was Antonio Salieri born?
A. 1740
B. 1750
C. 1760
D. 1770
Answer: B. 1750
Q2. Where was Antonio Salieri born?
A. Venice
B. Verona
C. Legnago
D. Milan
Answer: C. Legnago
Q3. What was the name of Salieri’s older brother who initially taught him music?
A. Giuseppe
B. Francesco
C. Giovanni
D. Leopold
Answer: B. Francesco
Q4. Who was Salieri’s first formal music teacher in Legnago?
A. Giuseppe Simoni
B. Florian Leopold Gassmann
C. Christoph Willibald Gluck
D. Pietro Metastasio
Answer: A. Giuseppe Simoni
Q5. At approximately what age did Salieri move to Venice after his parents’ death?
A. 10
B. 13
C. 15
D. 18
Answer: C. 15
Q6. Who discovered Salieri’s talent in Venice and took him to Vienna in 1766?
A. Pietro Metastasio
B. Florian Leopold Gassmann
C. Joseph II
D. Ferdinando Pacini
Answer: B. Florian Leopold Gassmann
Q7. What foundational counterpoint treatise did Salieri study and translate during his education in Vienna?
A. Gradus ad Parnassum
B. The Well-Tempered Clavier
C. Treatise on Instrumentation
D. Orfeo ed Euridice
Answer: A. Gradus ad Parnassum
Q8. In what year did Salieri compose his first surviving church work, a Mass in C major?
A. 1765
B. 1767
C. 1770
D. 1774
Answer: B. 1767
Q9. Who was Salieri’s mentor and informal teacher in prosody and declamation during his early Vienna years?
A. Christoph Willibald Gluck
B. Lorenzo Da Ponte
C. Pietro Metastasio
D. Joseph Haydn
Answer: C. Pietro Metastasio
Q10. To whom did Salieri marry on October 10, 1774?
A. Anna Maria Mozart
B. Therese Helferstorfer
C. Caterina Canzi
D. Maria Anna Gluck
Answer: B. Therese Helferstorfer
Q11. Which of Salieri’s early operas, premiered in 1770, was based on Molière’s Les Femmes Savantes?
A. Armida
B. La Fiera di Venezia
C. Le donne letterate
D. La secchia rapita
Answer: C. Le donne letterate
Q12. What innovative orchestral feature did Salieri introduce in his 1772 opera La secchia rapita?
A. Full string section
B. Three timpani
C. Harpsichord continuo
D. Brass fanfares
Answer: B. Three timpani
Q13. Which Salieri opera, premiered in 1772, featured multilingual singing and influenced Mozart’s Don Giovanni?
A. La locandiera
B. La Fiera di Venezia
C. Europa riconosciuta
D. Il ricco d’un giorno
Answer: B. La Fiera di Venezia
Q14. Based on Carlo Goldoni’s play, which 1773 comic opera by Salieri achieved widespread comedic acclaim?
A. La locandiera
B. La Scuola de’ gelosi
C. Prima la musica e poi le parole
D. Il mondo alla rovescia
Answer: A. La locandiera
Q15. For which landmark event was Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta composed in 1778?
A. Emperor Joseph II’s coronation
B. La Scala theater’s inauguration
C. Vienna International Festival
D. Paris Opera premiere
Answer: B. La Scala theater’s inauguration
Q16. Which German Singspiel by Salieri, premiered in 1781, was one of his major successes alongside Mozart’s Die Entführung?
A. Der Rauchfangkehrer
B. Tarare
C. Die Neger
D. Axur, re d’Ormus
Answer: A. Der Rauchfangkehrer
Q17. In what language was Salieri’s acclaimed 1784 tragedie lyrique Les Danaides primarily composed?
A. Italian
B. German
C. French
D. Latin
Answer: C. French
Q18. Which librettist collaborated with Salieri on operas like Il ricco d’un giorno and Axur, re d’Ormus?
A. Pietro Metastasio
B. Lorenzo Da Ponte
C. Giambattista Casti
D. Beaumarchais
Answer: B. Lorenzo Da Ponte
Q19. Salieri’s 1786 one-act opera Prima la musica e poi le parole parodied what operatic dynamic?
A. Composer-librettist tensions
B. Singer-conductor rivalries
C. Patron-audience conflicts
D. Orchestra-pit acoustics
Answer: A. Composer-librettist tensions
Q20. Based on a libretto by Beaumarchais, which 1787 French opera by Salieri was later adapted into his greatest international success?
A. Les Horaces
B. Tarare
C. Palmira, regina di Persia
D. Cesare in Farmacusa
Answer: B. Tarare
Q21. Which Shakespeare-inspired opera by Salieri, premiered in 1799, has seen modern revival?
A. Falstaff ossia Le tre burle
B. Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari
C. Catilina
D. La cifra
Answer: A. Falstaff ossia Le tre burle
Q22. What was Salieri’s last staged opera, a 1804 German Singspiel set in colonial Virginia?
A. Il mondo alla rovescia
B. Palmira, regina di Persia
C. Die Neger
D. La grotta di Trofonio
Answer: C. Die Neger
Q23. Which famous composer was among Salieri’s notable pupils, receiving counterpoint lessons?
A. Joseph Haydn
B. Ludwig van Beethoven
C. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D. Franz Joseph Haydn
Answer: B. Ludwig van Beethoven
Q24. Besides Beethoven, which other renowned composer studied composition under Salieri?
A. Franz Schubert
B. Carl Maria von Weber
C. Hector Berlioz
D. Felix Mendelssohn
Answer: A. Franz Schubert
Q25. In what year did Salieri become Austrian Imperial Kapellmeister, a role he held until 1824?
A. 1774
B. 1788
C. 1792
D. 1804
Answer: B. 1788