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Composers
Scholastic Bowl Most Prominent
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the Hall of the Mountain King* | Edvard Grieg |
| Morning Mood | Edvard Grieg |
| Wedding Day at Troldhaugen | Edvard Grieg |
| March of the Trolls | Edvard Grieg |
| Arietta | Edvard Grieg |
| Holberg Pieces | Edvard Grieg (for Ludwig Holberg's death anniversary) |
| Lyric Pieces | Edvard Grieg |
| Play: Peer Gynt | Edvard Grieg (play written by Henrik Ibsen) |
| Pictures at an Exhibiton* | Modest Mussorgsky |
| Night on Bald Mountain | Modest Muggorsky |
| Boris Gudonov | Modest Mussorgsky |
| Great Gate of Kiev | Modest Mussorgsky (from Pictures at an Exhibition) |
| Hut on Fowll's Legs | Modest Mussorgsky (from Pictures at an Exhibition) |
| Promenade | Modest Mussorgsky (from Pictures at an Exhibition) |
| The Old Castle | Modest Mussorgsky (from Pictures at an Exhibition) |
| Canon in D Major* | Johann Pachelbel (Wedding Song) |
| Hexachordum Apollinis | Johann Pachelbel |
| The Flight of the Bumblebee | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* (from the Tale of Tsar Sultan) |
| Scheherazade | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* |
| The Tale of Tsar Sultan | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* |
| Capriccio Espagnol (both titled Alborada) | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* |
| The Kalendar Prince | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* (from Scheherazade) |
| The Sea and Sinbad's Ship | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* (from Scheherazade) |
| Festival at Baghdad | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* (from Scheherazade) |
| The Young Prince and the Young Princess | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* (from Scheherazade |
| Sadko | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* |
| Mlada | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* |
| The Snow Maiden | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* |
| Russian Easter Festival Overture | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* |
| Night on Mount Triglav | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* (from Mlada) |
| The Golden Cockerel | Nikolai *Rimsky-Korsakov* |
| The Rite of Spring* | Igor Stravinsky |
| The Firebird* | Igor Stravinsky |
| Petrushka | Igor Stravinsky |
| Dumbarton Oaks Concerto | Igor Stravinsky |
| Pulcinella | Igor Stravinsky |
| Agon | Igor Stravinsky |
| The Soldier's Tale | Igor Stravinsky |
| Symphony of Psalms | Igor Stravinsky |
| Adoration of the Earth | Igor Stravinsky (from The Rite of Spring) |
| Infernal Dance | Igor Stravinsky (from The Firebird) |
| Augurs of Spring | Igor Stravinsky (from The Rite of Spring) |
| Music for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes | Igor Stravinsky |
| Peter and the Wolf* | Sergei Prokofiev |
| Romeo and Juliet (ballet) | Sergei Prokofiev |
| The Love for Three Oranges | Sergei Prokofiev |
| Lieutenant Kije (Movie Score by Sergei Eisenstein) | Sergei Prokofiev |
| Alexander Nevsky (Movie Score by Sergei Eisenstein) | Sergei Prokofiev |
| Scythian Suite | Sergei Prokofiev |
| Classical Symphony (based on Haydn) | Sergei Prokofiev |
| The Dance of the Knights | Sergei Prokofiev (from Romeo and Juliet) |
| Troika | Sergei Prokofiev (from Lieutenant Kije) |
| Battle on Ice | Sergei Prokofiev (from Alexander Nevsky) |
| Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Vocalise | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Etudes-Tableux | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Morceaux de Fantaisie | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Prelude in C-Sharp Minor | Sergei Rachmaninoff (from Morceaux de Fantaisie) |
| Utilized 24th Caprice | Sergei Rachmaninoff (Paganini's 24th Caprice) |
| Isle of the Death | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Leningrad Symphony | Dmitri Shostakovich (his 7th Symphony) |
| Invasion Theme | Dmitri Shostakovich (from Leningrad Symphony) |
| Eighth String Quartet | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District | Dmitri Shostakovich (attacked in Pravda article "Muddle instead of Music") |
| Inspired by The Merry Widow | Dmitri Shostakovich (7th Symphony) |
| Babi Yar | Dmitri Shostakovich (his 13th Symphony) |
| For Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poem | Dmitri Shostakovich (his 13th Symphony) |
| Ballet: The Nutcracker* | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| Ballet: Swan Lake* | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| Ballet: Sleeping Beauty | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| "Pathetique" Symphony | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (his final) |
| 1812 Overture | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (depicts the Battle of Borodino) |
| La Marseillaise | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (from 1812 Overture) |
| God Save the Tsar | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (from 1812 Overture) |
| Limping Waltz | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (from Pathetique Symphony) |
| The Rose Adagio | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (from Sleeping Beauty) |
| Trepak | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (from the Nutcracker) |
| Waltz of the Flowers | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (from the Nutcracker) |
| Opera: Eugene Onegin | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| Overture-Fantasy | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (from his Romeo and Juliet) |
| Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (from the Nutcracker) |
| Rococo Variations | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| Manfred Symphony | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (based on a Lord Byron poem) |
| Francesca da Rimini | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| Serenade for Strings | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| Finlandia | Jean Sibelius (performed under different titles like Impromptu to avoid censorship) |
| Lemminkainen Suite (or Four Legends) | Jean Sibelius (based on the Finnish Epic, Kalevela) |
| The Swan of Tuonela | Jean Sibelius (English Horn represents a Swan) |
| Press Celebration Music Suite | Jean Sibelius |
| Kullervo Symphony | Jean Sibelius |
| The Building of the Boat | Jean Sibelius (unfinished) |
| Kuolema | Jean Sibelius |
| Valse Triste (Sad Waltz) | Jean Sibelius (from Kuolema) |
| Tapiola | Jean Sibelius |
| The Maiden in the Tower | Jean Sibelius |
| Claire de Lune | Claude Debussy (part of Suite Bergamasque, inspired by titular Paul Verlane poem) |
| Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun | Claude Debussy (inspired by a Stephen Mellarm poem) |
| Suite Bergamasque | Claude Debussy |
| The Sunken Cathedral | Claude Debussy (from his Prelude Book & Depicts the Island of Ys (ees)) |
| The Girl with the Flaxen Hair | Claude Debussy (from his Prelude Book) |
| Estampes (eh-tamp) Suite | Claude Debussy |
| Pagodas | Claude Debussy (from Estampes, inspired by Javanese Gamelan Music) |
| Children's Corner Suite | Claude Debussy |
| La Mer | Claude Debussy |
| Play of the Waves | Claude Debussy (from La Mer) |
| Nocturnes (contains the Clouds, Festivals, and Sirens movements) | Claude Debussy |
| Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum | Claude Debussy (Opener from Children's Corner Suite) |
| Golliwogg's Cakewalk | Claude Debussy (Closer from Children's Corner Suite) |
| Passepied in F-Sharp Minor | Claude Debussy (from Bergamasque Suite) |
| Bolero* | Maurice Ravel (contains long, crescendoing, 3/4 Snare Drum ostinato) (commissioned by Ida Rubinstein) |
| Miroirs Suite | Maurice Ravel (dedicated to Les Apaches (Lays A Posh)) |
| Gaspard de la Nuit | Maurice Ravel (written to be harder than Balakirev's "Islameny") |
| Night Moths | Maurice Ravel (from Miroirs Suite) |
| A Boat on the Ocean | Maurice Ravel (from Miroirs Suite) |
| Scarbo | Maurice Ravel (from Gaspard de la Nuit) |
| Ondine | Maurice Ravel (from Gaspard de la Nuit) |
| Alborada del Gracioso | Maurice Ravel |
| Le Gibet | Maurice Ravel (from Gaspard de la Nuit) |
| La Valse | Maurice Ravel |
| Le Tombeau de Couperin | Maurice Ravel (dedicated to his dead WW1 Friends) |
| Noble and Sentimental Waltzes | Maurice Ravel |
| Tzigane (Tsee-Gahn) | Maurice Ravel |
| Ballet: Daphnis et Chloe | Maurice Ravel |
| Pavane for a Dead Princess | Maurice Ravel |
| Symphonie Fantastique* | Hector Berlioz (uses Idee (ee-day) Fixe theme) |
| March to the Scaffold | Hector Berlioz (from Symphonie Fantastique) |
| Dream of a Witches' Sabbath | Hector Berlioz (from Symphonie Fantastique) |
| Benvenuto Cellini | Hector Berlioz |
| Orgy of the Brigands | Hector Berlioz (from Benvenuto Cellini) |
| Damnation of Faust | Hector Berlioz |
| Rakoczi March | Hector Berlioz (from Damnation of Faust) |
| Treatise on Instrumentation and Orchestration | Hector Berlioz |
| Harold in Italy | Hector Berlioz |
| Opera: Les Troyens | Hector Berlioz |
| Tuba Mirum (French) | Hector Berlioz (from his massive Requiem) |
| Lacrimosa | Hector Berlioz (from his massive Requiem) |
| The Carnival of the Animals* | Camille Saint-Saens |
| Danse Macabre | Camille Saint-Saens |
| Opera: Samson and Delilah | Camille Saint-Saens |
| Pianists | Camille Saint-Saens (from The Carnival of the Animals) |
| Tortoises | Camille Saint-Saens (from The Carnival of the Animals & features Can-Can/Infernal Galop from Offenbach Opera) |
| Aquarium | Camille Saint-Saens (from The Carnival of the Animals) |
| Fossils | Camille Saint-Saens (from The Carnival of the Animals & xylophones=skeletons |
| Piano Concerto No. 5 "The Egyptian" | Camille Saint-Saens |
| The Swan | Camille Saint-Saens (from The Carnival of the Animals) |
| Organ Symphony dedicated to Franz Lizst | Camille Saint-Saens |
| Havanaise | Camille Saint-Saens |
| Introduction and Rondo Capriccio | Camille Saint-Saens |
| Gymnopedies | Erik Satie |
| Ballet: Parade | Erik Satie |
| Vexations | Erik Satie |
| Gnossiennes | Erik Satie |
| Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear | Erik Satie |
| Dessicated Embryos | Erik Satie |
| Ogives (oh-jives) | Erik Satie |
| Brandenburg Concertos* | Johann Sebastian Bach (dedicated to Margave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg) |
| Goldberg Variations | Johann Sebastian Bach (recorded by Glenn Gould & made to help Count Kaiserling's sleep insomnia) |
| Toccata and Fugue in D Minor | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| The Well-Tempered Clavier | Johann Sebastian Bach (48 preludes in every key) |
| St. Matthew Passion | Johann Sebastian Bach (revived Bach's career with Mendelssohn's playing of this) |
| French Overture | Johann Sebastian Bach (contains Echo movement) |
| Italian Concerto | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Adapted into Charles Gounod's Ave Maria | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Partita in D Minor | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| The Musical Offering | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Mass in B Minor | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Hunting Cantata | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Symbolism Nicenum | Johann Sebastian Bach (part of Mass in B Minor as the Credo) |
| Symphony No. 5* | Ludwig Van Beethoven (short-short-short long) |
| Moonlight Sonata* | Ludwig Beethoven (#14 dedicated to Giuletta Guicciardi, light reflecting off of Lake Lucene) |
| Eroica Symphony (No. 3)* | Ludwig Beethoven (dedicated to Napoleon before being erased) |
| Pastoral Symphony (No. 6)* | Ludwig Beethoven |
| Fur Elise* | Ludwig Beethoven |
| Symphony No. 9 (Contains Ode to Joy)* | Ludwig Beethoven |
| Ode to Joy | Ludwig Beethoven (from Symphony no. 9) |
| String Quartets for Count Razumovsky | Ludwig Beethoven |
| Hammerklavier Sonata | Ludwig Beethoven |
| Quasi Una Fantasia | Ludwig Beethoven (from Moonlight Sonata) |
| Scene by the Book | Ludwig Beethoven (from Pastoral Symphony) |
| Pathetique Sonata | Ludwig Beethoven |
| Kreutzer Sonata | Ludwig Beethoven |
| Les Adieux Sonata | Ludwig Beethoven (Le-Be-Wohl) |
| Grosse Fugue (String Quartet) | Ludwig Beethoven |
| Ballet: The Creatures of Prometheus | Ludwig Beethoven |
| Three Romances for Violin and Piano | Clara Wieck/Schumann |
| Rhenish Symphony (No. 3) | Robert Schumann (inspired by a trip with Clara to Cologne Cathedral on the Rhine) |
| Spring Symphony (No. 1) | Robert Schumann (Influenced by Adolf Bottger's Spring Poem) |
| Carnaval* | Robert Schumann |
| Scenes from Childhood | Robert Schumann |
| Traumerei | Robert Schumann (from Scenes from Childhood) |
| Ghost Variations | Robert Schumann |
| Florestan & Eusebeus | Robert Schumann (from Carnaval) |
| Album for the Young | Robert Schumann |
| The Happy Farmer | Robert Schumann (from Album for the Young) |
| Papillons | Robert Schumann |
| Kreisleriana | Robert Schumann |
| Cathedral (movement) | Robert Schumann (4th movement from Rhenish Symphony) |
| In Full Bloom | Robert Schumann (Last Movement of Spring Symphony) |
| Lebhaft | Robert Schumann (movement from Rhenish Symphony) |
| Dichterliebe | Robert Schumann |
| Dances of the League of David | Robert Schumann |
| New Journal for Music (published by) | Robert Schumann |
| Songs of Dawn | Robert Schumann |
| Of Foreign Lands and People's | Robert Schumann (from Scenes from Childhood) |
| Cradle Song/Wiegenlied | Johannes Brahms (his namesake lullaby) |
| German Requiem* | Johannes Brahms (heavily utilized the Lutheran Bible) |
| Hungarian Dances | Johannes Brahms |
| Symphony no. 1 nicknamed Beethoven's 10th Symphony | Johannes Brahms |
| Academic Festival Overture | Johannes Brahms (commemorates his honorary degree from the University of Breslau) (Based on the song Gautemeus igitur) |
| Variations on a Theme of Haydn | Johannes Brahms |
| Tragic Overture | Johannes Brahms |
| Variation on a Theme of Schumann | Johannes Brahms (dedicated to Clara, who he lived with, along with Robert, and likely loved) |
| Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel | Johannes Brahms |
| Wedding March (incidental music) | Felix Mendelssohn (From a Midsummer Night's Dream) |
| Incidental Music for a Midsummer Night's Dream | Felix Mendelssohn |
| Reformation Symphony No. 5* | Felix Mendelssohn (300th anniversary of Augsburg Confession) |
| Hebrides Overture | Felix Mendelssohn (inspired by a trip to Fingal's Cave) |
| Songs Without Words | Felix Mendelssohn |
| Venetian Boat Songs | Felix Mendelssohn (from Songs Without Words) |
| Gutenberg Cantata | Felix Mendelssohn |
| Dresden Amen | Felix Mendelssohn (from Reformation Symphony) |
| Octet in E-Flat Major | Felix Mendelssohn (written at 16!!) |
| Easter Sonata | Fanny Mendelssohn |
| Elijah Oratorio | Felix Mendelssohn |
| Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)* | Richard Strauss (Homage to Friedrich Nietzche) |
| Alpine Symphony | Richard Strauss |
| Der Rosenkavalier* | Richard Strauss |
| Salome | Richard Strauss |
| Dance of the Seven Veils | Richard Strauss (from Salome) |
| Ein Heldenleben (a Hero's Life) | Richard Strauss |
| Works of Peace | Richard Strauss (from Ein Heldenleben) |
| Till Eugenspiegel's Merry Pranks | Richard Strauss |
| Symphonia Domestica | Richard Strauss |
| The Ring Cycle* | Richard Wagner (series of 4 operas starting when the dwarf Alberich steals the Rhinegold Ring of the Nibelung) |
| Tristan and Isolde* | Richard Wagner |
| Das Rheingold | Richard Wagner (movement from Ring Cycle) |
| Die Walkure | Richard Wagner (movement from Ring Cycle) |
| Siegfried | Richard Wagner (movement from Ring Cycle) |
| Gotterdammerung | Richard Wagner (movement from Ring Cycle) |
| Ride of the Valkyries | Richard Wagner (from Ring Cycle) |
| Tannhauser | Richard Wagner |
| Played at the Bayreuth (By-roit) Festival | Richard Wagner |
| Liebestod | Richard Wagner (from Tristan and Isolde) |
| Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (the Master Singers of Nuremberg) | Richard Wagner |
| Lohengrin | Richard Wagner |
| Bridal Chorus | Richard Wagner |
| Parsifal | Richard Wagner |
| Definitely an Anti-Semite | Richard Wagner |
| Rienzi | Richard Wagner |
| The Flying Dutchman | Richard Wagner |
| created Namesake Tuba | Richard Wagner |
| Duke Bluebeard's Castle | Bela Bartok |
| Concerto for Orchestra | Bela Bartok (incorporated Hungarian Folk Songs) |
| Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta | Bela Bartok |
| Mikrokosmos (Piano etudes) | Bela Bartok |
| Miraculous Mandarin | Bela Bartok |
| Game of Pairs | Bela Bartok (from Concerto for Orchestra) |
| Elegia | Bela Bartok (from Concerto for Orchestra, uses his "Night Music" Style) |
| 3 Seduction Games | Bela Bartok (from Miraculous Mandarin) |
| Out of Doors | Bela Bartok |
| Cantata Profana | Bela Bartok |
| Kossuth | Bela Bartok |
| Romanian Folk Dances | Bela Bartok (used Hungarian Folk Songs, aided by Zoltan Kodaly) |
| 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies | Franz Liszt (Based on gypsy & Hungarian Folk) |
| 6 Grand Etudes | Franz Liszt (adapted from Paganini's Second Violin Concerto) |
| Transcendental Etudes | Franz Liszt (12 Etudes dedicated to his teacher, Czerny) |
| La Campanella | Franz Liszt (3rd of his Grand Etudes) |
| Created a Namesake "Mania" with his works | Franz Liszt (Lisztomania, he wanted to become a virtuoso as great as Paganini) |
| Les Preludes | Franz Liszt (inspired by Lamartine) |
| Lassan and Friska sections | Franz Liszt (from Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2) |
| Un Sospiro | Franz Liszt |
| Mephisto Waltzes | Franz Liszt (based on Faust) |
| Mazeppa | Franz Liszt (4th Transcendental Etude) |
| Don Sanche | Franz Liszt (only Opera, lost manuscript for 3 decades) |
| Dante Sonata and Symphony | Franz Liszt |
| Liebestraume (Leeb-es-troy-muh) | Franz Liszt |
| Years of Pilgrimage | Franz Liszt |
| Faust Symphony | Franz Liszt |
| A Dance at the Village Inn | Franz Liszt (from Faust Symphony) |
| Feux Follets | Franz Liszt (Transcendental Etude) |
| Inventor of the Symphonic Poem | Franz Liszt |
| Totentantz | Franz Liszt (based of a Dies Irae melody) |
| Ma Vlast (My Country) | Bedrich Smetana (6 Tone Poems) |
| The Bartered Bride | Bedrich Smetana |
| The Moldau | Bedrich Smetana (from Ma Vlast, depicts the Vltava River) |
| From My Life Quartet | Bedrich Smetana |
| Brandenburgers in Bohemia | Bedrich Smetana |
| Vysehrad | Bedrich Smetana (from From My Life) |
| New World Symphony (No. 9)* | Antonin Dvorak |
| Slavonic Dances | Antonin Dvorak |
| Cello Concerto in B Minor | Antonin Dvorak |
| Song of Hiawatha inspired his most famous work | Antonin Dvorak (Fourth movement of New World Symphony) |
| 4th Movement: Allegro Con Fuoco | Antonin Dvorak |
| Inspired the song "Goin Home" | Antonin Dvorak |
| Revolutionary Etude | Frederic Chopin (inspired by the November Uprising/Bombardment of Warsaw) |
| Minute Waltz | Frederic Chopin (inspired by a dog chasing its tail) |
| Raindrop Prelude | Frederic Chopin (inspired by a trip to Majorca) |
| Black Key Etude | Frederic Chopin |
| Winter Wind Etude | Frederic Chopin |
| Four Ballades for Piano | Frederic Chopin (inspired by Adam Mickiewicz Poetry) |
| Wrong Note Etude | Frederic Chopin |
| Funeral March from B-Flat Piano Sonata No. 2 | Frederic Chopin (3rd "lento" movement) |
| Waterfall Etude (1st Etude) | Frederic Chopin |
| Popularized Nocturnes | Frederic Chopin |
| Fantaisie-Impromptu | Frederic Chopin |
| Wrote famous Polonaises (Heroic and Military) | Frederic Chopin (Polish Dances) |
| Used his home-country's Mazurkas as inspiration | Frederic Chopin |
| Jupiter Symphony* | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (ends in a 5-theme Fugato) |
| Requiem in D Minor* | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (unfinished at his death) |
| Don Giovanni* | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| The Magic Flute* | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| The Marriage of Figaro* | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for Strings) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| "Queen of the Night" Aria | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from the Magic Flute) |
| (Unfinished) Lacrymosa Movement | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from Requiem in D Minor) |
| Placed in the Kochel Catalogue | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Little Symphony in G Minor (No. 25) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Great Symphony in G Minor (No. 40) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (uses the Mannheim Rocket) |
| Rondo Alla Turca (Sonata No. 11) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (imitates Janissary Bands) |
| Piano Sonata for Beginners/Facile (No. 16) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Tuba Mirum (Movement from Requiem in D Minor) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Prague Symphony | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Paris Symphony | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Unfinished work completed by Franz Sussmayr | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Elvira Madigen Concerto (Piano Concerto No. 21) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Amen Fugue | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from Requiem in D Minor) |
| Catalogue Aria | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from Don Giovanni) |
| Father of the Symphony | Franz Joseph Haydn |
| Father of the String Quartet | Franz Joseph Haydn |
| Surprise Symphony* | Franz Joseph Haydn (named for a sudden G Major Fortissimo Chord) |
| 12 London Symphonies | Franz Joseph Haydn |
| The Creation Oratorio | Franz Joseph Haydn |
| Farewell Symphony | Franz Joseph Haydn (sees performers blow out Candles) |
| Russian Quartets | Franz Joseph Haydn (dedicated to Grand Duke Paul) |
| The Joke (Quartet) | Franz Joseph Haydn (One of his Russian Quartets) |
| Emperor Quartet | Franz Joseph Haydn (dedicated to Count Erdody) |
| Court Musician for the Esterhazy Family | Franz Joseph Haydn |
| God Save Emperor Francis | Franz Joseph Haydn (Later adapted into the German National Anthem) |
| 6 Paris Symphonies | Franz Joseph Haydn |
| The Bear (Symphony) | Franz Joseph Haydn (from Paris Symphony) |
| Representation of Chaos | Franz Joseph Haydn (from the Creation Oratorio) |
| Palindrome Symphony | Franz Joseph Haydn |
| Lord Nelson Mass | Franz Joseph Haydn (Originally Mass for Troubled Times, but name was changed after Napoleon's loss at the Battle of the Nile) |
| Titan Symphony (No. 1 in D Major) | Gustav Mahler (named for a Jean Paul Novel) |
| Resurrection Symphony (No. 2) | Gustav Mahler |
| Symphony of a Thousand* (Symphony No. 8 in E Major) | Gustav Mahler |
| Song of the Earth | Gustav Mahler (inspired by Chinese Poetry) |
| Second Half of Symphony formed from Goethe's Faust | Gustav Mahler (from Symphony of a Thousand) |
| Tragic Symphony (No. 6) | Gustav Mahler (contains 3 Hammer Blows of Fate) |
| Uses theme of Veni Creator Spiritus | Gustav Mahler (from Symphony of a Thousand) |
| Chorus Mysticus | Gustav Mahler (finale from Symphony of a Thousand) |
| Des Knaben Wunderhorn | Gustav Mahler (Song Cycle) |
| Ulricht | Gustav Mahler (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, used in Ressurection Symphony No. 2) |
| Frere Jacques | Gustav Mahler (from Titan Symphony's funeral march/dirge) |
| Song of Lamentation | Gustav Mahler |
| Kindertotenlieder | Gustav Mahler |
| Carmina Burana | Carl Orff (a German) |
| Unfinished Symphony* | Franz Schubert |
| Ave Maria | Franz Schubert |
| Der Erlkonig | Franz Schubert (inspired by a Goethe Poem) |
| Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel (Gretchen am Spinnrade) | Franz Schubert (one of his many Lieder) |
| Death and the Maiden (String Quartet) | Franz Schubert |
| Winterriese | Franz Schubert (used Wilhelm Muller's poems) |
| Die Schone Mullerin | Franz Schubert (used Wilhelm Muller's poems) |
| Trout Quintet | Franz Schubert |
| Die Forelle | Franz Schubert (from Trout Quintet) |
| Little C Major Symphony | Franz Schubert |
| Great C Major Symphony | Franz Schubert |
| Wanderer Fantasy | Franz Schubert |
| Six Moments Musicaux | Franz Schubert |
| Incidental Music for Rosamunde | Franz Schubert |
| The Hurdy-Gurdy Man | Franz Schubert |
| Philosopher's Scherzo | Franz Schubert (added to his Unfinished Symphony by August Ludwig) |
| March of Destiny | Franz Schubert (added to his Unfinished Symphony by August Ludwig) |
| Brook's Lullaby | Franz Schubert |
| Tragic Symphony No. 4 in C-Minor | Franz Schubert |
| Father of the Waltz | Johann Strauss II/Jr. |
| The Blue Danube Waltz | Johann Strauss II/Jr. (named after a Karl Beck Poem) |
| Tales from the Vienna Woods | Johann Strauss II/Jr. |
| Pizzicato Polka | Johann Strauss II/Jr. |
| Kaiser-Walzer | Johann Strauss II/Jr. (commemorates Kaiser Wilhem II's visit to Emperor Franz Joseph) |
| Tritsch-Tratsch Polka | Johann Strauss II/Jr. |
| Die Fledermaus | Johann Strauss II/Jr. |
| Voices of Spring | Johann Strauss II/Jr. |
| Kiss Waltz | Johann Strauss II/Jr. |
| Emperor Waltz | Johann Strauss II/Jr. (first known as Hand in Hand) |
| Created the Twelve-Tone Technique | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Leader of the Second Viennese School of Music | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Verklarte Nacht/Transfigured Night | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Pierrot Lunaire | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Gurrelieder | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Developed the Sprechstimme Technique | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Five Orchestral Pieces | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Peripatie | Arnold Schoenberg (from 5 Orchestral Pieces) |
| The Obbligato Recitative | Arnold Schoenberg (from 5 Orchestral Pieces) |
| Created the Farben Chord | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Conducted the Disasterous Skandalkonzert | Arnold Schoenberg |
| A Survivor from Warsaw | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Shema Yisrael | Arnold Schoenberg (from a Survivor from Warsaw) |
| Drunk with Moonlight | Arnold Schoenberg (from Pierrot Lunaire) |
| Messiah* (Oratorio) | George Frederic Handel |
| Hallelujah Chorus | George Frederic Handel |
| Zadok the Priest | George Frederic Handel (created for the coronation of George II) (Played on the River Thames) |
| Water Music | George Frederic Handel |
| Alla Hornpipe | George Frederic Handel (from Water Music) |
| Air | George Frederic Handel (from Water Music) |
| Pifa (pastoral) | George Frederic Handel (from Messiah, depicts "Shepherds abiding in the Field) |
| "I know that my redeemer liveth" aria | George Frederic Handel (from Messiah) |
| "He Shall Reign forever and ever and ever" Aria | George Frederic Handel (from Messiah) |
| Music for the Royal Fireworks | George Frederic Handel (made to celebrate the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ending the War of the Austrian Succession) |
| La Paix (movement) | George Frederic Handel (from Music for the Royal Fireworks) |
| La R'ejouissance (movement) | George Frederic Handel (from Music for the Royal Fireworks) |
| Judas Maccabeus | George Frederic Handel |
| "See, the Conquering Hero Come" Aria | George Frederic Handel (from Judas Maccabeus) |
| Ode for St. Cecilia's Day | George Frederic Handel |
| Rinaldo (Opera) | George Frederic Handel |
| Solomon Oratorio | George Frederic Handel |
| The Harmonious Blacksmith | George Frederic Handel |
| The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba | George Frederic Handel (from Soloman Oratorio) |
| The Cuckoo and the Nightingale | George Frederic Handel |
| Israel in Egypt | George Frederic Handel |
| Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline | George Frederic Handel |
| Pomp and Circumstance* | Edward Elgar (dedicated to Edward VII) |
| Enigma Variations* | Edward Elgar |
| Land of Hope and Glory | Edward Elgar (from Pomp and Circumstance) |
| Nimrod (movement) | Edward Elgar (from Enigma Variations, dedicated to Augustus J. Jaegar, who is depicted as a hunter) |
| C.A.E. (movement) | Edward Elgar (from Enigma Variations, initials of his wife) |
| Dorabella (movement) | Edward Elgar (from Enigma Variations) |
| Ysobel (movement) | Edward Elgar (from Enigma Variations) |
| The Dream of Gerontius | Edward Elgar (based on Cardinal Newman's Poem, shows the travels of "The Soul") |
| Salut d'Amour | Edward Elgar |
| Windflower Theme | Edward Elgar (from his Violin Concerto in B-Flat) |
| E Minor Cello Concerto | Edward Elgar (popularized by Jacqueline du Pre) |
| Variations on an Original Theme | Edward Elgar |
| The Planets Suite* | Gustav Holst |
| Savitri (Opera) | Gustav Holst |
| Beni Mora | Gustav Holst |
| St. Paul's Suite | Gustav Holst (made due to his previous work at St Paul's Girls' School |
| Fantasia on the Dargason | Gustav Holst |
| Cranham | Gustav Holst |
| In the Bleak Midwinter | Gustav Holst |
| Rig Veda Hymns | Gustav Holst |
| Two Suites for Military Bands | Gustav Holst |
| I Vow to Thee, My Country | Gustav Holst (adapted from The Planets) |
| Thaxted | Gustav Holst (from the Planets) |
| Bringer of War | Gustav Holst (Ares from the Planets) |
| Bringer of Peace | Gustav Holst (Venus from the Planets) |
| The Winged Messenger | Gustav Holst (Mercury from the Planets) |
| Bringer of Jollity | Gustav Holst (Jupiter from the Planets) |
| The Magician | Gustav Holst (Uranus from the Planets) |
| The Mystic | Gustav Holst (Neptune from the Planets) |
| The Renewer | Gustav Holst (unofficial: Pluto from the Planets) |
| Dido and Aeneas (Opera) | Henry Purcell |
| King Arthur (Opera) | Henry Purcell |
| Incidental Music to Abdelazer | Henry Purcell (used in Britten's A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra) |
| The Fairy-Queen (Opera) | Henry Purcell (Version of a Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Frost Scene | Henry Purcell (from King Arthur) |
| The Indian Queen (Opera) | Henry Purcell |
| Diocletian (Opera) | Henry Purcell |
| "When I am Laid in Earth" Aria | Henry Purcell (from Dido and Aeneas) |
| The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra* | Benjamin Britten |
| Peter Grimes | Benjamin Britten |
| Uses Rondeau Movement from Variations on a Theme of Abdelazer by Purcell | Benjamin Britten (used in The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra) |
| War Requiem (performed at Coventry Cathedral) | Benjamin Britten (inspired by Wilfred Owen) |
| The Four Sea Interludes | Benjamin Britten |
| The Rape of Lucretia (Tarquin's Daughter) | Benjamin Britten |
| Gloriana (Opera) | Benjamin Britten |
| Paul Bunyan | Benjamin Britten |
| "Ellen Orford" Aria | Benjamin Britten (from Peter Grimes) |
| "Now the Great Bear and the Pleiades" Aria | Benjamin Britten (from Peter Grimes) |
| Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings | Benjamin Britten |
| Fantasia on a Theme of/by Thomas Tallis | Ralph Vaughan Williams (Inspired by Tallis's "Spem in Alium") |
| The Lark Ascending | Ralph Vaughan Williams (inspired by George Meredith) |
| A Sea Symphony (No. 1) | Ralph Vaughan Williams (inspired by Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman) |
| Sinfonia Antarctica (No. 7) | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Scored the film "Scott of the Antarctic" | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Used Merchant of Venice for his Serenade to Music | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Pilgrim's Progress (Opera) | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Sir John in Love (Opera) | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Utilized "Why Fum'th in Fight" | Ralph Vaughan Williams (for his Fantasia on a Theme of/by Thomas Tallis) |
| Incidental Music for Aristophanes's The Wasps | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Flos Campi | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Verses of Song of Solomon in every movement of his suite | Ralph Vaughan Williams (from Flos Campi) |
| "On the Beach at Night, Alone" (movement) | Ralph Vaughan Williams (from Sea Symphony No. 1) |
| A London Symphony | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Songs of Travel | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Fantasia on Greensleeves | Ralph Vaughan Williams (from Sir John in Love) |
| Rhapsody in Blue* | George Gershwin (opens with 16 note clarinet glissando) |
| An American in Paris | George Gershwin (Utilized 4 Taxi Horns) |
| Famous piece premiered at "An Experiment in Modern Music" in Paris | George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue) |
| Porgy and Bess (Opera)* | George Gershwin (set on Catfish Row) |
| "Summertime" Aria | George Gershwin (Sung by Clara from Porgy and Bess) |
| "My Man's Gone Now" Aria | George Gershwin (Sung by Serena from Porgy and Bess) |
| "It Ain't Necessarily So" | George Gershwin (Sung by Sportin' Life from Porgy and Bess) |
| Swanee | George Gershwin (song) |
| "The Livin' is Easy" | George Gershwin (from Porgy and Bess) |
| I Got Rhythm | George Gershwin (utilized "Rhythm Changes") |
| Nadia Boulanger refused to tutor because she had nothing to teach to this man | George Gershwin |
| Blue Monday (Opera) | George Gershwin |
| Cuban Overture (originally named Rumba) | George Gershwin |
| Concerto in F | George Gershwin |
| Appalachian Spring (Ballet)* | Aaron Copland |
| Rodeo (Ballet) | Aaron Copland |
| Billy the Kid (Ballet) | Aaron Copland |
| "Simple Gifts" | Aaron Copland (from Appalachian Spring) |
| Fanfare for the Common Man | Aaron Copland (first premiered at Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) |
| "Hoe-Down" | Aaron Copland (from Rodeo) |
| "Buckaroo Holidy" | Aaron Copland (from Rodeo) |
| "The Open Prarie" | Aaron Copland (from Billy the Kid) |
| Choreographed by Agnes de Mille | Aaron Copland |
| Doppio Movimento Movement | Aaron Copland (from Appalachian Spring) |
| "5 Variations on a Shaker Hymn" | Aaron Copland (from Appalachian Spring's Doppio Movement) |
| "Corral Nocturne" | Aaron Copland (from Rodeo) |
| Dance Panels | Aaron Copland |
| Grohg | Aaron Copland |
| "Dance of the Opium Eater" | Aaron Copland (from Grohg) |
| "Saturday Night Waltz" | Aaron Copland (from Rodeo) |
| Quotes the song "Bonaparte's Retreat" | Aaron Copland |
| Choreographed by Martha Graham | Aaron Copland |
| Set Design by Isamu Noguchi | Aaron Copland |
| Lincoln Portrait | Aaron Copland |
| "Fellow Citizens, We Cannot Escape History" narration | Aaron Copland (from Lincoln Portrait) |
| 4 Dance Episodes | Aaron Copland |
| Connotations | Aaron Copland |
| El Salon Mexico | Aaron Copland |
| El Palo Verde | Aaron Copland (from El Salon Mexico) |
| The Unanswered Question (Symphony No. 2) | Charles Ives |
| Three Places in New England | Charles Ives |
| Concord Sonata | Charles Ives |
| Two Contemplations | Charles Ives |
| Holiday Symphony | Charles Ives |
| Universe Symphony | Charles Ives |
| Central Park in the Dark | Charles Ives |
| Two Contemplations | Charles Ives |
| "Past, Present, and Future" (Movements) | Charles Ives (from Universe Symphony) |
| "The St. Gauden in Boston Commons" (movement) | Charles Ives (from Three Places in New England) |
| "Putnam's Camp" (Movement) | Charles Ives (from the Three Places in New England) |
| "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" (Movement) | Charles Ives (from Three Places in New England) |
| "Thoreau" (movement) | Charles Ives (from The Unanswered Question) |
| "Emerson" (movement) | Charles Ives (from the Unanswered Question) |
| "Hawthorne" (movement) | Charles Ives |
| Quotes "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean" | Charles Ives (The Unanswered Question) |
| "Decoration Day" (movement) | Charles Ives (from Holiday Symphony) |
| West Side Story* (composer) | Leonard Bernstein |
| Former Conductor of the New York Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein |
| Candide (composer for the operetta) | Leonard Bernstein |
| "Glitter and Be Gay" Aria | Leonard Bernstein (from Candide) |
| Chichester Cathedral Psalms | Leonard Bernstein |
| Jeremiah Symphony No. 1 | Leonard Bernstein |
| Utilizes the Book of Lamentation | Leonard Bernstein (for Jeremiah Symphony) |
| Scored On the Waterfront | Leonard Bernstein |
| Scored On the Town | Leonard Bernstein |
| Hosted "Young People's Concerts" | Leonard Bernstein (as NY Philharmonic Conductor) |
| Kaddish Symphony (No. 3) | Leonard Bernstein (dedicated to JFK) |
| "Make Our Garden Grow" Aria | Leonard Bernstein |
| "America" (song) | Leonard Bernstein (from West Side Story) |
| "I Feel Pretty" (song) | Leonard Bernstein (from West Side Story) |
| "Somewhere" (song) | Leonard Bernstein (from West Side Story) |
| "Maria" (song) | Leonard Bernstein (from West Side Story) |
| "Cool" (song) | Leonard Bernstein (from West Side Story) |
| Wrote Opera about the Jets and the Sharks | Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story) |
| 4'33" | John Cage Jr. |
| As Slow as Possible | John Cage Jr. |
| Imaginary Landscapes (notable No. 4) | John Cage Jr. (used Radio Recievers) |
| Invented the Prepared Piano | John Cage Jr. |
| Sonatas and Interludes | John Cage Jr. (written for the Prepared Piano) |
| Work ending in the Year 2640 | John Cage Jr. (As Slow as Possible) |
| Played famous piece in St. Buchardi Church in Germany | John Cage Jr. (As Slow as Possible, ends in 2640) |
| Used the I (ee) Ching (CHeeng) to Compose | John Cage Jr. |
| Collaborated with Merce Cunningham | John Cage Jr. |
| Music of Changes | John Cage Jr. |
| String Quartet in 4 Parts | John Cage Jr. |
| Portrait Trilogy | Philip Glass |
| Einstein on the Beach | Philip Glass (from the Portrait Trilogy) |
| Satyagraha | Philip Glass (from the Portrait Trilogy) |
| Akhnaten | Philip Glass (from the Portrait Trilogy) |
| 1000 Airplanes on the Roof | Philip Glass |
| The Photographer | Philip Glass |
| "Pre-maturely Air-conditioned Supermarket" | Philip Glass (from Einstein on the Beach) |
| "Mr. Bojangles | Philip Glass (from Einstein on the Beach) |
| "I Feel the Earth Move" | Philip Glass (from Einstein on the Beach) |
| Tolstoy (movement) | Philip Glass (from Satyagraha) |
| Tagore (movement) | Philip Glass (from Satyagraha) |
| King (movement) | Philip Glass (from Satyagraha) |
| Knee Plays | Philip Glass |
| Adagio for Strings | Samuel Barber |
| Premiered work after FDR's death | Samuel Barber (Adagio for Strings) |
| Vanessa (Opera) | Samuel Barber |
| Knoxville: Summer of 1915 | Samuel Barber (depicted Samuel Agee's childhood) |
| The School of Scandal Overture | Samuel Barber |
| Nixon in China* | John Coolidge Adams |
| On the Transmigration of Souls | John Coolidge Adams |
| Doctor Atomic | John Coolidge Adams |
| The Red Detachment of Women | John Coolidge Adams |
| Short Ride in a Fast Machine | John Coolidge Adams (Commissioned by Great Woods Festival) |
| Shaker Loops | John Coolidge Adams |
| The Death of Klinghoffer | John Coolidge Adams |
| Quotes the Bhagavid Gita | John Coolidge Adams (Doctor Atomic) |
| Shows the Achille Lauro Hijacking & Commemorates 9/11 | John Coolidge Adams (On the Transmigration of Souls) |
| "Spirit of '76" Aria | John Coolidge Adams (Nixon in China) |
| "I am the wife of Mao Tse-Tung" Aria | John Coolidge Adams (Nixon in China) |
| The Four Seasons* | Antonio Vivaldi (Included in his The Contest Between Harmony and Invention) |
| Is known as The Red Priest | Antonio Vivaldi (for his red hair and priesthood) |
| The Contest Between Harmony and Invention | Antonio Vivaldi (Large set of works including the seasons) |
| L'estro Armonico/Harmonic Inspiration | Antonio Vivaldi |
| Orlando Furioso (opera) | Antonio Vivaldi |
| La Stravaganza | Antonio Vivaldi |
| "The Sea Storm" Concerto | Antonio Vivaldi |
| "The Hunt" Concerto | Antonio Vivaldi |
| Joined the staff of the Ospadale della Pieta orphanage. | Antonio Vivaldi |
| "Pleasure" Concerto | Antonio Vivaldi |
| "Barking Dog" excerpt | Antonio Vivaldi (from The Four Seasons) |
| Juditha Triumphans Oratorio | Antonio Vivaldi (his only surviving oratorio) |
| Mandolin Concerto (in C Major) | Antonio Vivaldi |
| Montezuma (Opera) | Antonio Vivaldi |
| Rigoletto* (Opera) | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Aida* (Opera) | Giuseppe Verdi |
| La Traviata (Fallen Woman)* (Opera) | Giuseppe Verdi (In which Violetta Valery dies from TB) |
| il Trovatore (Opera) | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Nabucco (Opera) | Giuseppe Verdi (his first) |
| "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" also known as "Va, Piensiero" | Giuseppe Verdi (from Nabucco) |
| La Forza Del Destino (Opera) | Giuseppe Verdi |
| "Fickle Women" Aria | Giuseppe Verdi (from Rigoletto) |
| "Anvil Chorus" | Giuseppe Verdi (from il Trovatore) |
| "Ritorna Vincitor" Aria | Giuseppe Verdi |
| "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" | Giuseppe Verdi (from La Traviata) |
| "La Donna E Mobile" | Giuseppe Verdi (from Rigoletto) |
| Don Carlos (Opera) | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Madame Butterfly* (Opera) | Giacomo Puccini (Cio-Cio San falls in love with Lieutenant Pinkerton before killing herself) |
| La Boheme* (Opera) | Giacomo Puccini (4 Bohemians come together before Rodolfo & Mimi, who dies of TB, causes it to end in tragedy) |
| Tosca* (Opera) | Giacomo Puccini (Tosca kills Baron Scarpia after he executed his lover, Mario Cavaradossi) |
| Turandot* (Opera) | Giacomo Puccini (Princess Turandot requires suitors to answer 3 riddles, solved by Calaf) |
| "Un bel di" Aria | Giacomo Puccini (from Madame Butterfly while waiting for Lieutenant Pinkerton) |
| "E Lucevan le Stelle" Aria | Giacomo Puccini (from Tosca) |
| "Recondita Armonia" Aria | Giacomo Puccini (from Tosca) |
| "Jasmine Flower" song | Giacomo Puccini (from Turandot) |
| "Nessun Dorma" Aria | Giacomo Puccini (from Turandot) |
| Repeated cries of "Vincero" | Giacomo Puccini (from Turandot's Nessun Dorma Aria) |
| Vissi D'arte | Giacomo Puccini (from Tosca) |
| Manon Lescaut (Opera) | Giacomo Puccini |
| "In Questa Reggia" Aria | Giacomo Puccini (from Turandot) |
| "Quando Men Vo" Aria | Giacomo Puccini (from La Boheme) |
| "O Mio Babbino Caro" Aria | Giacomo Puccini (from Madame Butterfly) |
| Gianni Schicchi (Opera) | Giacomo Puccini |
| il Tabarro (Opera) | Giacomo Puccini |
| Girl of the Golden West | Giacomo Puccini |
| 24 Caprices | Niccolo Paganini |
| "The Hunt" | Niccolo Paganini (one of his Caprices) |
| "The Devil's Laughter" | Niccolo Paganini (one of his Caprices) |
| Suffered from Marfan syndrome | Niccolo Paganini |
| Second Violin Concerto inspired Liszt's 3rd Grand Etude | Niccolo Paganini (La Campanella) |
| "The Trill" | Niccolo Paganini (one of his Caprices) |
| Inspired Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of [Answer] | Niccolo Paganini |
| One of the Earliest developers of the Opera | Claudio Monteverdi |
| L'Orfeo (Opera) | Claudio Monteverdi (retelling of Orpheus) |
| The Coronation of Poppea (Opera) | Claudio Monteverdi (Nero(Nerone) seeks to put his wife Poppea on the throne who Ottone tries to kill) |
| "Possente Spirto" Aria | Claudio Monteverdi (from L'Orfeo) |
| "Adio Roma" Aria | Claudio Monteverdi (from The Coronation of Poppea) |
| L'Arriane (Opera) | Claudio Monteverdi (based on Ariadne from Greek Myth) |
| Ariadne repeats "Let Me Die" | Claudio Monteverdi (from L'Arriane) |
| The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland (Opera) | Claudio Monteverdi |
| "Pur ti Muro, Pur ti Gudo" Aria | Claudio Monteverdi (from the Coronation of Poppea) |
| Eight Books of the Madrigals | Claudio Monteverdi |
| William Tell* (Opera) | Gioachino Rossini (Swiss Archer shoots arrow from his son, Jemmy's, head & Leuther murders one of Gessler's soldiers) |
| The Barber of Seville* (Opera) | Gioachino Rossini (Figaro, a barber, helps Count Almaviva, his employer, find the love of Rosina, but is stopped by Dr. Baltaro) |
| The Thieving Magpie (Opera) | Gioachino Rossini (A bird steals a silver spoon, for which Ninetta is tried and killed) |
| La Cenerentola (Opera) | Gioachino Rossini (Girl forced to live under the abusive Don Magnifico) |
| "March of the Swiss Soldiers" | Gioachino Rossini (from William Tell) |
| "Deh, tu reggi in tal momento" Aria | Gioachino Rossini (from the Thieving Magpie) |
| The Italian Girl (Opera) | Gioachino Rossini (Mustafa wants to marry his wife, Elvira, into his harem but is opposed by Bey the slave) |
| Semiramide (Opera) | Gioachino Rossini |
| Tancredi (Opera) | Gioachino Rossini |
| "Sois Immobile" Aria | Gioachino Rossini (from William Tell) |
| Wrote a Ranz des Vaches with a famous gallop | Gioachino Rossini (from William Tell) |
| Carmen* (Opera) | Georges Bizet (Escamillo is killed by Don Jose for loving Carmen) |
| Titular "Habanera" Aria | Georges Bizet (from Carmen) |
| "Toreador Song" | Georges Bizet (from Carmen, sung by Escamillo) |
| The Pearl Fishers (Opera) | Georges Bizet (Ceylon/Sri-Lankan set with Nourabad trying to execute Nadir, Zurga, and Leila before the escape due to a fire) |
| The Fair Maid of Perth (Opera) | Georges Bizet (Duke of Rothsay tries to woo Catherine Glover but angers Queen Mab) |
| "Au fond du temple saint" duet | Georges Bizet (from the Pearl Fishers) (also called the "Friendship Duet at the Back of the Holy Temple) |
| "Love is a Rebellious Bird" Aria | Georges Bizet (from Carmen) |
| Incidental Music for L'Arlesienne" | Georges Bizet |
| Doctor Miracle (Opera) | Georges Bizet |
| Created the Sousaphone | John Philip Sousa (tuba on arms) |
| "March King" | John Philip Sousa |
| Stars and Stripes Forever | John Philip Sousa |
| Semper Fidelis | John Philip Sousa (Marine Corps song) |
| The Washington Post March | John Philip Sousa (written for them) |
| The Liberty Bell | John Philip Sousa |
| Piccolo obbligato in a trio section | John Philip Sousa (from Stars and Stripes Forever) |
| El Capitan (operetta) | John Philip Sousa |
| Theme song for Monty Python's Flying Circus | John Philip Sousa (the Liberty Bell) |
| U.S. Field Artillery | John Philip Sousa (based on "Caisson Song") |
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