Achinz
Hermit of Huangshan
Welcome to some "high" culture with perhaps some historical context for mininal relevance 
1) Which Baroque composer was known as "The Red Priest". Which city was his home base?
2) Who composed the "Eroica Symphony"? Why was it so named?
3) Which Australian concert pianist was also a composer of works based largely on folkmusic? Which European composer was he a close friend of?
4) Some weird deaths - which composer died
a) when a (heavy) conducting stick he used accidentally stamped on his foot which developed fatal gangrene.
b) when a bookshelf fell on top of him when he was retrieving a book
c) when he was accidentally shot by occupying troops while going out to smoke a cigarette during a curfew in his occupied city.
d) when the passenger ship he was travelling on sank after being torpedoed by a German submarine.
5) A couple of suicides:
a) This 20th Century English composer had an alter ego (another persona) as a writer. What are his respective names?
b) This 20th Century English musician was a pioneer of the so-called "historically informed (authentic)" performance of early music (up the Classical period). His ensemble The Early Music of London was a prolific recording group from which many current leading practitioners of early music have graduated.
6) A couple of composers who had other full-time careers:
a) He was a professor of chemistry who apparently only kept one class ahead of his students because of the time spent in composing his musical works, which had a strong nationalist flavour.
b) This innovative American composer was a successful businessman. Hint: he was born in Connecticut in 1874.
Edit: Typo "Eroica", not "Erioca".
1) Which Baroque composer was known as "The Red Priest". Which city was his home base?
2) Who composed the "Eroica Symphony"? Why was it so named?
3) Which Australian concert pianist was also a composer of works based largely on folkmusic? Which European composer was he a close friend of?
4) Some weird deaths - which composer died
a) when a (heavy) conducting stick he used accidentally stamped on his foot which developed fatal gangrene.
b) when a bookshelf fell on top of him when he was retrieving a book
c) when he was accidentally shot by occupying troops while going out to smoke a cigarette during a curfew in his occupied city.
d) when the passenger ship he was travelling on sank after being torpedoed by a German submarine.
5) A couple of suicides:
a) This 20th Century English composer had an alter ego (another persona) as a writer. What are his respective names?
b) This 20th Century English musician was a pioneer of the so-called "historically informed (authentic)" performance of early music (up the Classical period). His ensemble The Early Music of London was a prolific recording group from which many current leading practitioners of early music have graduated.
6) A couple of composers who had other full-time careers:
a) He was a professor of chemistry who apparently only kept one class ahead of his students because of the time spent in composing his musical works, which had a strong nationalist flavour.
b) This innovative American composer was a successful businessman. Hint: he was born in Connecticut in 1874.
Edit: Typo "Eroica", not "Erioca".
compared with the likes of Apolyton.
