In common with many lands and cultures, German-speaking Europe has celebrated its main rivers in music. Which of these offers the only correct pairings?

Born in 1810, by his early 20s he had abandoned virtuoso pianism on account of a hand injury, turning instead to composition and critical writing. He produced large quantities of excellent and accessible music in other genres such as the symphony and one of the 'topmost' piano concertos of all time, but many musicians meet his work first through the charming piano pieces he wrote for children such as ('Scenes from Childhood'). Who was he?

Which German city is home to the Thomaskirche (St Thomas' Church, where Bach most eminently plied his trade as cantor), the Gewandhaus (concert hall) and the Biedermeyer-style apartment which was the last home of Felix Mendelssohn?

Which German piano manufacturer, in 1873, patented the Aliquot system, whereby an extra 'sympathetic' string (at fractional length) is supplied for the uppermost three octaves on its instruments to provide added brightness and pearliness of tone?

Which of the following categories of music is Johann Sebastian Bach not known or believed to have written?

During the Nazi era, even music with Jewish associations (such as the Wedding March from the incidental suite to by Mendelssohn, whose father had converted away from Judaism) was forbidden, in favour of works by purer Teutonic giants of the art such as Richard Wagner. Particularly ironically in the light of this, in what traditional public context may one now well hear works by these two composers more or less back-to-back?

Which of these musicological labels seems the most out-of-place?

The 20th century was, of course, one of very chequered history for German-speaking Europe (and, one may perhaps not unfairly say, in no small measure caused by it). Amid all this, German-speaking composers were blazing a variety of characteristic and individual trails. Which of these was probably regarded as the oddest ~ or 'most extremely innovative' ~ of the lot?

With which strand of classical music are the names Heinrich Schuetz, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss associated?

Franz Joseph Haydn was pivotal in establishing the form of each of the following, with one exception; in which did he NOT have a recognisable 'hand'?