Answer: Scarlet Fever "Kindertotenlieder" is actually a collection of 428 poems by German poet Friedrich Rückert and later compiled by Gustav Mahler, which the former wrote in 1833-34 after losing two of his children to scarlet fever.
Answer: Muzio Clementi Muzio Clementi went head-to-head with Mozart in a musical contest for the entertainment of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II in Vienna, Austria. Ultimately the Emperor declared the competition a tie.
Answer: Sleeping Beauty The Walt Disney Company derived some of the music for its 1959 animated classic "Sleeping Beauty" from the equally notable "the Sleeping Beauty", a ballet written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) that was first performed in 1890.
Answer: Emanuel Schikaneder "The Magic Flute" is perhaps Mozart's best known work, and the libretto to the opera was written by Emanuel Schikander (1751-1812), a highly-recognized musician for his era.
Answer: Symphony No. 5 Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, perhaps his best known work, has come to be known as the "Victory Symphony" due to its usage during the Allied Forces' "V for Victory" campaign during World War II.
Answer: Claude Debussy Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns had a real tiff with Claude Debussy - which culminated in him successfully petitioning to deny Debussy admission into the Institut de France - seemingly not due to any personal beef but rather a dislike of Debussy's musical style and younger composers in general.
Answer: Beethoven Beethoven's hearing starting deteriorating in his late 20s, and by the time he was in his mid 40s, he was practically deaf. However, this impairment did not prevent him from composing music, albeit in lower notes than he had prior.
Answer: 1977 The Gramophone Classical Music Awards first began in 1977 and since then have been conducted annually, usually in London during the month of September. Some people consider winning a Gramophone Award even more of an accomplishment than winning a Grammy.
Answer: "Dafne" The origin of opera can be traced by to Jacopo Peri's 16th century work "Dafne". Unfortunately for the world of classical music, most of that piece has been lost.
Answer: String Quartet No. 14 Franz Schubert considered Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 the ultimate composition. As such, shortly before his death he requested his own string quartet play the piece for him.