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Composers Intro
Question | Answer |
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Austrian composer of over 100 symphonies. Best known for Surprise Symphony. | Haydn |
Jupiter Symphony and Don Giovanni opera. The Magic Flute | Mozart |
Wrote the "Unfinished", The "Great", and The "Last" Symphonies (His 8th, 9th, and 10th.) | Schubert (Not to be confused withe Q-bert |
Waltz King. Wrote "Blue Danube Waltz" and composed his operetta, "Die Fledermaus" | Strauss the Younger |
Wrote "Resurrection" and "Symphony of a Thousand". Was scared of the "curse of the 9th" | Mahler |
Composed "From the New World" and "Slavonic Dances" | Dvorak |
Composed "The Planets" and "Songs from the Rig Veda" | Holst |
Composed the opera "Paul Bunyan" Composed "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" | Britten (from Britain) |
"March to the Scaffold" "Dream of a Witch's Sabbath" "Symphonie Fantastique" "The Damnation of Faust" | Berlioz |
"The Tales of Hoffman" "Orpheus in the Underwold" | Offenbach |
"Carnival of the Animals" Had a feud with Debussy. "Danse Macabre" | Saint-Saens |
Musical impressionism, symbolism, "Clair de lune", "Prelude to the afternoon of a faun" | Debussy |
"The Fair Maid of Perth", "Carmen" | Bizet |
Baroque composer. "Canon in D Major" | Pachelbel |
Long line of family musicians. "Brandenburg Concertos" "The Well-Tempered Clavier", "Goldberg Variations" | J.S.Bach |
Worked for George I of England. "Water Music" "The Messiah" | Handel |
Student of Haydn. "Fur Elise" "Eroica" "Fidelio" "The Creatures of Prometheus" | Beethoven |
"Hebrides Overture" Reintroduced Bach. "Songs without words" | Mendelssohn |
Married the Daughter of Liszt. "The Flying Dutchman" "Lohengrin" "The Ring of the Nibelung" | Wagner |
"German Requiem" "Lullaby" "Hungarian Dances" | Brahms |
Leader of the state music bureau for the Nazis, but conflicted with them and was removed. "Also Sprach Zarathustra" "Salome" "Der Rosenkavalier" | Richard Strauss |
student of Salieri. Popular during his life. "Mephisto Waltz" "Les Preludes" "Hungarian Rhapsodies" | Liszt |
worked for a girls orphanage. Nicknamed the red priest. "The Four Seasons" | Vivaldi |
Violin virtuoso. "La Campanella" | Paganini |