Composer day jobs (trivia)?!
Question: Match the composer to their non-musical "day job".
1. Modest Mussoursky
2. Peter Tchaikovsky
3. Franz Schubert
4. Charles Ives
5. Hector Berlioz
6. Antonio Vivaldi
7. Alexader Borodin
8. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff
a. medical student (flunked out)
b. chemist
c. civil bureaucrat
d. army officer
e. Catholic priest
f. naval officer
g. schoolteacher
h. insurance salesman
Answers: Match the composer to their non-musical "day job".
1. Modest Mussoursky
2. Peter Tchaikovsky
3. Franz Schubert
4. Charles Ives
5. Hector Berlioz
6. Antonio Vivaldi
7. Alexader Borodin
8. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff
a. medical student (flunked out)
b. chemist
c. civil bureaucrat
d. army officer
e. Catholic priest
f. naval officer
g. schoolteacher
h. insurance salesman
Here are my picks:
1. Modest Mussourgsky - army officer
2. Peter Tchaikovsky - civil bureaucrat
3. Franz Schubert - schoolteacher
4. Charles Ives - insurance salesman
5. Hector Berlioz - medical student
6. Antonio Vivaldi - Catholic priest
7. Alexader Borodin - chemist
8. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff - naval officer
1. Modest Musogrsky - army officer
2. Peter Tchaikovsky - civil bureaucrat
3. Franz Schubert - school teacher
4. Charles Ives - insurance magnate (not a salesman - he owned his own company!)
5. Hector Berlioz - medical student
6. Antonio Vivaldi - Catholic priest (ordained but didn't practise)
7. Alexander Borodin - chemist (a very eminent one in his time)
8. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - naval officer