Classical Heardle

What is Classical Heardle?

Classical Heardle is a free music quiz in the browser, inspired by Heardle: you hear 1 s of a classical piece and guess the composer, with longer clips if you need them. Every day brings a new daily challenge, the same for everyone, plus a 30-level quest and unlimited free play.

How to play Classical Heardle

Press play to hear 1 s of a track, then type the composer. Not sure? Unlock a longer clip (1 s, 3 s, 6 s and 12 s): the sooner you answer, the more points you score (4, 3, 2, 1). Name the exact track title afterwards for one more point. You start with 3 hearts and lose one per mistake.

Free play has several modes: Classic, Sudden death (one heart), Time attack (90 seconds), Reverse (find the right clip among three) and Single game. Correct answers in a row build a combo, and the best scores go on the leaderboard.

Classical music

From the Baroque of Bach and Vivaldi to the 20th century of Ravel and Orff, by way of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky: you hear an excerpt of a famous work and guess who composed it. Many of these pieces are known from ads or films without people always knowing who wrote them.

57 tracks from 26 composers: Johann Pachelbel, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Johann Strauss II, Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint-Saëns, Georges Bizet, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Dvořák, Edvard Grieg, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel and Carl Orff.

Free, no sign-up

Heardles runs in the browser on phone and computer, with nothing to install. An optional account syncs your progress between devices.