| Question |
Answer |
| 1882-1971 |
Igor Stravinsky |
| Studied under Rimsky-Korsakov |
Stravinsky |
| The Firebird ballet |
Stravinsky |
| Petrushka (ballet) |
Stravinsky |
| The Rite of Spring |
Stravinsky |
| one of his pieces incited a riot |
Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring) |
| Symphony of Psalms |
Stravinsky |
| Moved to Hollywood in 1940 |
Stravinsky |
| The Rake's Progress (opera) |
Stravinsky |
| Wrote an opera with libretto by W.H. Auden |
Stravinsky |
| Adopted twelve-tone system and composed the ballet Argon |
Stravinsky |
| Scherzo fantastique; Fireworks (orchestral works) |
Stravinsky |
| The Soldier's Tale (after World War I) |
Stravinsky |
| Rag-time; Piano Rag-Music |
Stravinsky |
| comic opera Mavra |
Stravinsky |
| Oedipus Rex; Persephone; Apollo (written for George Balanchine) |
Stravinsky |
| friends with Robert Craft |
Stravinsky |
| Buried in Venice (near Diaghliev's grave) |
Stravinsky |
| 1874-1951 |
Arnold Schoenberg |
| Austrian pioneer of dodecaphony (twelve-tone system) |
Schoenberg |
| influenced by Wagner and Richard Strauss |
Schoenberg |
| Transfigured Night (for strings) |
Schoenberg |
| Sprechstimme |
halfway between singing and speaking (German for "speech voice") |
| Pierrot lunaire (a Sprechstimme piece) |
Schoenberg |
| his students: Alban Berg and Anton Webern |
Schoenberg |
| Moved from Berlin to L.A. in 1933 |
Schoenberg |
| A Survivor from Warsaw |
Schoenberg |
| Moses and Aaron (uncompleted opera) |
Schoenberg |
| taught at University of California at Los Angeles from 1936 to 1944 |
Schoenberg |
| String Trio |
Schoenberg |
| 1913-1976 |
Benjamin Britten |
| Reviver of the opera in the U.K. |
Britten |
| Peter Grimes (story of a fisherman who kills two of his apprentices) |
Britten |
| Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (his composition teacher) |
Britten |
| wrote incidental music for works by his friend W.H. Auden |
Britten |
| worked with the tenor Peter Pears |
Britten |
| Founded the Aldeburgh Festival of Music |
Britten |
| Billy Budd; The Turn of the Screw; Death in Venice (operas) |
Britten |
| The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra |
Britten |
| War Requiem (based on poems by Wilfred Owen) |
Britten |
| Britten's first opera |
Paul Bunyan |
| The Rape of Lucretia; Alvert Herring |
Britten |
| based on part of The Borough by George Crabbe |
Peter Grimes (by Britten) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream; Gloriana (to commemorate the coronation of Elizabeth II); Owen Wingrave |
Britten |
| Noye's Fludde; The Prodigal Son |
Britten |
| Elizabeth II made him Baron ____ of Aldeburgh |
Britten |
| 1900-1990 |
Aaron Copland |
| first American student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1920s |
Copland |
| Organ Symphony; Music for the Theater |
Copland |
| El Salon Mexico |
Copland |
| Billy the Kid; Rodeo (ballets) |
Copland |
| Appalachian Spring (ballet featuring "Simple Gifts") |
Copland |
| Third Symphony (contains Fanfare for the Common Man) |
Copland |
| Lincoln Portrait (includes spken portions of Lincoln's writings) |
Copland |
| What to Listen For in Music (educational book) |
Copland |
| studied under Rubin Goldmark |
Copland |
| The Second Hurricane (opera for high school students) |
Copland |
| Of Mice and Men; Our Town (film scores) |
Copland |
| The Heiress (film score that won him the 1949 Academy Award for best dramatic film score) |
Copland |
| Connotations (commisioned for the opening of Lincoln Center in New York City); Inscape; Proclamation |
Copland |
| The New Music; Music and Imagination; ____ on Music (books) |
Copland |
| 1891-1953 |
Sergei Prokofiev |
| First, or Classical Symphony |
Prokofiev |
| The Love for Three Oranges (opera) |
Prokofiev |
| Peter and the Wolf |
Prokofiev |
| Alexander Nevsky (cantata); Lieutenant Kije (suite) [film scores] |
Prokofiev |
| Died on the same day as Stalin, March 5 (outlived Stalin by a few hours) |
Prokofiev |
| Scythian Suite; The Prodigal Son |
Prokofiev |
| Chout (the Buffoon); Le Pas d'acier (The Steel Step) [ballets for Diaghilev] |
Prokofiev |
| Rome and Juliet (ballet); War and Peace (opera) |
Prokofiev |
| Censured for "excessive formalism" |
Prokofiev |
| Tale of a Real Man (opera) |
Prokofiev |
| His 7th Symphony won him the 1952 Stalin Prize |
Prokofiev |
| Died as rehearsals began for Tale of the Stone Flower (ballet) |
Prokofiev |
| 1906-1975 |
Dmitri Shostakovich |
| The Nose; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (operas) |
Shostakovich |
| Leningrad Symphony |
Shostakovich |
| Received the Order of Lenin in 1956 |
Shostakovich |
| Awarded the Stalin prize several times; in 1966 became the first composer to receive the Hero of Socialist Labor award |
Shostakovich |
| Had a technical mastery of the orchestra; Used melodies reminscent of Gypsy (Romani) tunes popular in eastern Europe |
Shostakovich |
| 1881-1945 |
Bela Bartok |
| Roamed the Hungarian countryside with Zoltan Kodaly, collecting peasant tunes |
Bartok |
| Duke Bluebeard's Castle (opera) |
Bartok |
| The Wooden Prince (ballet) |
Bartok |
| The Miraculous Mandarin (ballet) |
Bartok |
| Mikrokosmos |
Bartok |
| Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta |
Bartok |
| Kossuth (symphonic poem) |
Bartok |
| Concerto for Orchestra; Out of Doors |
Bartok |
| Dance Suite; Divertimento; Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion |
Bartok |
| 1887-1954 |
Charles Ives |
| His father, George, was a local Connecticut businessman and bandleader |
Ives |
| Studied music at Yale, but turned to insurance sales |
Ives |
| His insurance firm was the largest in New York during the 1910s |
Ives |
| Second Piano (Concord) Sonata (with movements named after Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott, and Thoreau) |
Ives |
| Three Places in New England |
Ives |
| Won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for his Third symphony |
Ives |
| "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven" (based on a poem by Vachel Lindsay) |
Ives |
| Variations on "America" (for organ) |
Ives |
| Holidays; Three Quarter-Tone Pieces; 114 Songs (symphonies) |
Ives |
| Essays Before a Sonata (writings) |
Ives |
| Married Harmony Twitchell |
Ives |
| 1875-1937 |
Maurice Ravel |
| Rapsodie espagnole |
Ravel |
| Bolero |
Ravel |
| student of Gabriel Faure |
Ravel |
| Pavane for a Dead Princess |
Ravel |
| the French Conservatory overlooked him for the Prix de Rome four ties |
Ravel |
| Daphnis et Chloe (ballet) |
Ravel |
| Mother Goose; La Valse (ballet) |
Ravel |
| re-orchestrated Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition |
Ravel |
| his health declined after a 1932 taxi accident |
Ravel |
| unsuccessful brain surgery ended his life |
Ravel |
| Miroirs; Gaspard de la nuit |
Ravel |
| Fountains; Le Tombeau de Couperin; |
Ravel |
| The Child and the Enchantments |
Ravel |
| 1898-1937 |
George Gershwin |
| worked with his older brother Ira |
Gershwin |
| Rhapsody in Blue |
Gershwin |
| Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra |
Gershwin |
| Porgy and Bess (opera based on a story by DuBose Heyward) |
Gershwin |
| "Swanee" |
Gershwin |
| Of Thee I Sing (musical that was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize in drama [1931]) |
Gershwin |
| died of a brain tumor at age 38 |
Gershwin |
| Studied with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, Wallingford Rieger, and Joseph Schillinger |
Gershwin |
| George's White Sandals |
Gershwin |
| Lady Be Good |
Gershwin |
| Funny Face |
Gershwin |
| An American in Paris |
Gershwin |
| "The Man I Love"; "I Got Rhythm"; "Someone to Watch Over Me" |
Gershwin |
| 1912-1992 |
John Cage |
| American student of Arnold Schoenberg and Henry Cowell |
Cage |
| Dada composer/aleatory or "chance" music |
Cage |
| Imaginary Landscape No 4 (used 12 radios tuned to different stations) |
Cage |
| 4'33" (for piano) |
Cage |
| invented the "prepared piano" |
Cage |
| Credo in US |
Cage |
| collaborated with dancer Merce Cunningham |
Cage |
| Sonatas and Interludes (won him an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship) |
Cage |
| Music of Changes (chance music, using the book I Ching, or Book of Changes) |
Cage |
| Silence (book that chronicled the development of his thinking) |
Cage |
| HPSCHD (collaboration with Lejaren Hiller) |
Cage |
| Renga (included drawings by Thoreau) |
Cage |
| Apartment House 1776 (mixed-media piece for musicircus-two orcehstras and four vocalists) |
Cage |
| Europeras 1/2 (his first opera) |
Cage |
| 1872-1958 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Revived the Tudor style and folk traditions in English music |
Vaughan Williams |
| Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis |
Vaughan Williams |
| Second (London) Symphony |
Vaughan Williams |
| First (Sea) Symphony; Third (Pastoral) Symphony; Seventh (sinfonia antarctica) |
Vaughan Williams |
| The Lark Ascending (based on a poem by George Meredith) |
Vaughan Williams |
| Sir John in Love (Shakesperarean opera featuring Fantasia on Greensleeves) |
Vaughan Williams |
| Hugh the Drover (opera) |
Vaughan Williams |
| The Pilgrim's Progress (opera) |
Vaughan Williams |
| Studied with Max Bruch and Maurice Ravel |
Vaughan Williams |
| Served as a music editor for the English Hymnal (book, as well as Songs of Praise and The Oxford Book of Carols) |
Vaughan Williams |
| Benedicite (Blessed Be) |
Vaughan Williams |
| Job: A Masque of Dancing |
Vaughan Williams |
| a setting of Riders to the Sea (by J.M. Synge, an Irish playwright) |
Vaughan Williams |
| Conducted at the Leith Hill Music Festival from 1909 to 1953 |
Vaughan Williams |
| 1873-1943 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Twice turned down conductorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra |
Rachmaninoff |
| C-Sharp Minor Prelude |
Rachmaninoff |
| Treated by hypnosis in 1901 |
Rachmaninoff |
| Second Piano Concerto (known as Rocky II) |
Rachmaninoff |
| The Isle of the Dead (symphonic poem) |
Rachmaninoff |
| Moved to the U.S. in 1917 |
Rachmaninoff |
| Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
Rachmaninoff |
| Took piano from his cousin Aleksander Siloti (who took from Franz Liszt) |
Rachmaninoff |
| Also studied with Anton Arensky, Sergey Taneyev, and Peter Tchaikovsky |
Rachmaninoff |
| Aleko (opera) |
Rachmaninoff |
| 2nd Trio elegiaque (written in memory of Tchaikovsky) |
Rachmaninoff |
| Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom |
Rachmaninoff |
| The Bells (choral symphony based on the poem by Poe) |
Rachmaninoff |
| All-Night Vigil (Vesper Mass) |
Rachmaninoff |
| Variations on a Theme of Corelli |
Rachmaninoff |
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