As this suite of Quizzes is written in the early summer of 2014, with the Great War Centenary much on the minds of cultured people worldwide, it would be nigh-on impossible to avoid mention of the Emperor Quartet, so called from the noble theme in its second movement which became the national anthem of Austria-Hungary (1797-1918) and shortly thereafter, with fresh words, of Germany (1922- ). Its German-speaking composer had enjoyed a stay in Britain, and, in an age when revolution had wracked France and her institutions, he felt his home nation/s should have something of equivalent dignity to our own National Anthem.,(rightanswer)Papa Haydn"

While many of us love the pageantry of a great musical occasion ~ such as an oratorio, concerto or symphony concert ~ the intimacy of chamber music, played perhaps by a string quartet, has charms and powers of its own.