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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Composer The Rite of Spring | Igor Stravinsky |
| Igor Stravinsky studied under what composer? | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Composer of Pierrot Lunaire | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Viennese composer who pioneered atonal music | Arnold Schoenberg |
| He created the twelve-tone method (aka 12 tone technique, 12 tone system) | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Composer of Transfigured Night (this is a middle tier clue in a majority of questions about this composer) | Arnold Schoenberg |
| English composer of Peter Grimes | Benjamin Britten |
| Composer of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra | Benjamin Britten |
| Composer of Billy Budd (the opera not the novella by Herman Melville) | Benjamin Britten |
| American composer of Appalachian Spring | Aaron Copland |
| American composer of Rodeo | Aaron Copland |
| composer of Fanfare for the Common Man | Aaron Copeland (I like to picture a common man named Aaron who is COPEing with losing his LAND in Appalachia by doing rodeo to buy back his Appalachian Spring. Oh and his rodeo nickname is Billy the Kid, which is another Copeland ballet) |
| Russian/Soviet composer of the ballet Romeo and Juliet | Sergei Prokofiev |
| Composer of the musical children's story Peter and the Wolf | Sergei Prokofiev |
| Composer stock clue: title of a movement depicts a horse-drawn sleigh titled "Troika" | Sergei Prokofiev |
| Composer of the Leningrad Symphony | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Hungarian composer of a Concerto for Orchestra | Bela (Viktor Janos) Bartok |
| American composer of Three Places in New England | Charles Ives |
| Composer of Concord Sonata | Charles Ives |
| Composer of The Unanswered Question | Charles Ives |
| French composer of Bolero | Maurice Ravel |
| Composer who wrote the song "Summertime" for his opera Porgy and Bess | George Gershwin |
| Composer of Rhapsody in Blue | George Gershwin (need first name, maybe just G. but we occasionally get questions about Ira so someone might prompt) |
| Composer of An American in Paris | George Gershwin |
| The composer who is perhaps best known for his "4'33" "Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds" of silence | John Cage (seriously someone lock this guy up in a cage -- 4:33 of silence and that is considered avant garde?) |
| Composer of The Lark Ascending and the opera that featured "Fantasia on Greensleeves" | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Russian composer of four virtuosic piano concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Composer “Choral” Ninth Symphony, Eroica, Pastoral, and Symphony number 5 in C minor (G G G long E flat) and Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral" | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Creator of The Ring of the Nibelung | Richard Wagner |
| Creator of the oratorio, Messiah | George Frideric Handel |
| The Barber of Seville | Rosinni |
| Rigoletto | Gieseppe Verdi |
| The Magic Flute | Mozart |
| Symphonie fantastique | Hector Berlioz |
| The Four Seasons | Antonio Vivaldi |
| The Planets | Gustav Holst |
| Moonlight Sonata | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Swan Lake | Tchaikovsky |
| West Side Story | Leonard Bernstein |
| Bolero | (Joseph-)Maurice Ravel |
| Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" | Joseph Haydn |
| Siegfried | Richard Wagner |
| Tosca opera and Turandot opera (posthumous completion) | Giacomo Puccini |
| La Traviata | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" | Mozart |
| Brandenburg Concertos | Johan Sebastian Bach (JS Bach) |
| Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Bald Mountain | Modest Mussorgsky |
| The Star Spangled Banner | Francis Scott Key |
| 1812 Overture and Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" | Tchaikovsky |
| Lohengrin | Richard Wagner |
| Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" | Franz Schubert |
| The Flying Dutchman | Richard Wagner |
| Hallelujah Chorus and Water Music | Handel |
| A German Requiem and a namesake Lullaby | Johannes Brahms |
| The Well-Tempered Clavier | JS Bach |
| Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Evita, | Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Hungarian Rhapsodies | Franz Liszt |
| Clair de Lune, La Mer, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun | Claude Debusssy |
| Pirates of the Penzance | Gilbert and Sullivan |
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