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QuizBowl Composers
| Famous Work | Nationality | Noteable Fact | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spartacus, Gayane (Sabre Dance) | 20th century Armenia | Aram Khachaturian | |
| Wrote more than 109 symphonies. Symphonies usually over #41 | 1732-1809 Austria | "Father of the Symphony" | Joseph Haydn |
| Paris, Prague, Jupiter Symphonies, Abduction from the Seraglio, Don Giovanni, Magic Flute | 1756-1791 Austria | Wolfgang Mozart | |
| Symphony #8 (The unfinished), Symphony #9 (The Great), Symphony #10 (The Last) | 1797-1828 Austria | Wrote more than 600 art songs | Franz Schubert |
| Blue Danube Waltz, Die Fledermaus (The Bat) | 1825-1899 Austria | Known as the waltz king | Johann Strauss, the Younger |
| Song of the Earth, Resurrection, the Tragic, Symphony of a Thousand | 1860-1911 Austria | Scared of dying if he wrote his 9th symphony | Gustav Mahler |
| Transfigured Night, Moses and Aaron, A survivor from Warsaw | 1874-1951 Austria | Creator of the twelve tone system | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Lulu and Wozzeck | 1885-1935 Austria | Alban Berg | |
| Belgian | Master organist | Cesar Franck | |
| Brazil | Heltor Villa-lobos | ||
| Bartered Bride, Moldau, Ma Vlast, From My Life | Czech (Bohemian) 1824-1884 | Lived for a decade in Sweden and suffered from tinnitus | Bedrich Smetana |
| From the New World, Slavonic Dances, Moravian Duets, Stabat Mater, Rusalka | Czech (Bohemia) 1841-1904 | Visited Spillville, IA in 1893 | Antonin Dvorak |
| Sinfonietta | Czech (Bohemian) 1854-1928 | Leos Janacek | |
| Dido and Aeneas, Fairy Queen, Abdelazar | England 1659-1695 | Most of his work is sacred music and hymns | Henry Purcell |
| Pomp and Circumstance, Enigma variations, The Land of Hope and Glory | England 1857-1934 | Wrote P&C for the coronation of Edward VII | Edward Elgar |
| Brigg Fair, On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring, a Village Romeo and Juliet | England 1862-1934 | Frederick Delius | |
| Sinfonia Antarctica, The Sea Symphony, The Lark Ascending, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis | England 1872-1958 | Related to Charles Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood | Ralph Vaugn Williams |
| The Planets, Songs from the Rig Veda, Savitri, At the Boar;s Head | England 1874-1934 | Gustav Holst | |
| Paul Bunyan, A young person's guide to the orchesetra, Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, Turn of the Screw | England 1913-1976 | Collabed with WH Auden | Benjamin Britten |
| Finlandia, Valse Triste, Swan of Tuonela | Finland | Jean Sibelius | |
| Symphonie Fantastique, March to the Scaffold, Dream of a Witches Sabbath, Harold in Italy, Damnation of Faust | France 1803-1869 | Obsessed with Harriet Smithson | Hector Berlioz |
| Faust | France 1818-1893 | Charles Gounod | |
| Tales of Hoffmann, Orphesus in the Underworld, Robinson Crusoe | France 1819-1880 | Born to Jewish Parents | Jacques Offenbach |
| Cranival of the Animals, Danse, Macabre, Organ Symphony, Samson and Delilah | France 1835-1921 | Public fued with Claude Debussy, Fought in Franco-Prussian War | Camille Saint-Saens |
| The Fair Maid of Perth, Pearl Fishers, Carmen, L'Arlesienne | France 1838-1875 | Georges Bizet | |
| Clair Delune, La Mer, Petite Suite | France 1862-1918 | "Impressionist" Composer | Claude Debussy |
| Canon in D Major | Germany 1653-1706 | An excerpt of his Canon appears in Mozart's the Magic Flute | Johann Pachelbel |
| St. Matthew's Passion, Bradenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier, and Goldberg Variations | Germany 1685-1750 | Contrapuntal technique | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks, The Messiah, Nero, Xerxes, Almira | Germany 1685-1759 | Kapellmeister to George | George Frideric Handel |
| Orpheus and Eurydice | Germany 1714-1787 | Marie Antoinette's music teacher | Christoph Gluck |
| The Kretuzer Sonata, Fur Elise, Fidelio, Creatures of Prometheus | Germany 1770-1827 | Student of Hadyn, deaf | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Oberon, Euryanthe, Die Freischutzu | Germany 1786-1826 | Founder of German Romantic opera | Carl Maria von Weber |
| Les Huguenots, Le Prophete | Germany 1791-1864 | Feud with Wagner | Giacomo Meyerbeer |
| Songs without words, Hebrides overture, Italian Symphony, Scottish Symphony, a Midsummer Night's Dream | Germany 1809-1847 | His teacher Carl Zelter is credited with reintroducing the works of Bach to European audiences | Felix Mendelssohn |
| Papillons, Spring Symphony, Rhenish symphony | Germany 1810-1856 | Threw himself into the Rhine River | Robert Schumann |
| Rienzi, Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Parcifal, Ring of the Nibelung | Germany 1813-1883 | Married the daughter of Franz Liszt | Richard Wagner |
| Academic Festival Overture, German Requiem, Lullaby, Hungarian Dancese | Germany 1833-1897 | Possible lover of Clara Schumann | Johannes Brahms |
| Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos | Germany 1864-1949 | Leader of the State Music Bureau for Nazi Germany | Richard Strauss |
| Les Preludes, Faust Symphony, Mephisto Waltz, Totentanz, Hungarian Rhapsodies | Hungary 1811-1886 | Wildly popular during his life time | Franz Liszt |
| Duke Bluebeard's castles, Miraculous Mandarin, Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Mikrosomos | Hungary 1881-1945 | Primarily interested in folk songs | Bela Bartok |
| Hary Janos | Hungary 1882-1967 | Zoltan Kodaly | |
| Pope Marcellus Mass | Italy 1512-1594 | Convinced the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music | Giovanni Palestrina |
| Orfeo, Coronation of Poppaea, Combat between Tancred and Clorinda | Italy 1567-1643 | Wrote one of the first operas ever performed | Claudio Monteverdi |
| Four Seasons, Contest Between Harmony and Invention, Orlando Furioso | Italy 1678-1741 | The Red Priest, worked for a girls orphanage | Antonio Vivaldi |
| Wrote more than 550 keyboard sonatas | Italy 1685-1757 | Baroque Composer | Domenico Scarlatti |
| La Campanella, 24 Caprices | Italy 1782-1840 | Played so well people thought he made a deal with the devil, had Marfan's syndrome | Niccolo Paganini |
| Italian Girl in Algiers, Cinderella, William Tell, Barber of Seville, The Thieving Magpie, Tancredi | Italy 1792-1868 | Gioachino Rossini | |
| Don Pasquale, Daughter of the Regiment, Elixir of Love, Lucretia Borgia, Anne Boleyn, Lucia di Lammermoor | Italy 1797-1848 | Master of the "bel canto" style" | Gaetano Donizetti |
| Norma, La Somnambula, I Puritani, The Capulets and the Montagues | Italy 1801-1835 | Master of the bel canto style | Vincenzo Bellini |
| Ernani, Macbeth, Rigoletto, II Trovatore, Sicillian Vespers, a Masked Ball, the Force of Destiny, Aida, Otello, Falstaff | Italy 1813-1901 | Romantic Composer | Giuseppi Verdi |
| La Gionconda, Dance of the Hours | Italy 1834-1886 | Amilcare Ponchielli | |
| I Pagliacci, La Boheme | Italy 1857-1919 | Master of the "verisimo" style | Ruggero Leoncavallo |
| Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Girl of the Golden West, Turnadot | Italy 1858-1924 | Giacomo Puccini | |
| Cavalerria Rusticana | Italy 1863-1936 | Master of verisimo style | Pietro Mascagni |
| Roman Trilogy, Fountains/Pines of Rome, Roman Festivals, Ancient Airs and Dances, Brazillian Impressions | Italy 1879-1936 | Ottorino Resphighi | |
| Peer Gynt, Morning Good, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Lyric Pieces, Holberg Suite, Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak | Norway 1843-1907 | Edvard Grieg | |
| Wrote mazurkas, etudes, polonaises, and preludes | Poland 1810-1849 | Frederic Chopin | |
| Pianist and composer | Poland 1860-1941 | Prime Minister of Poland | Ignacy Jan Paderewski |
| Islamey, Tamarai | Russia 1837-1910 | Mily Balakirev | |
| The Prisoner of the Caucasus, Puss in Boots | Russia 1835-1918 | Cesar Cui | |
| Boris Gudonov Khovanschina, Sorochinsti Fair, Night on Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhbition | Russia 1839-1881 | Friend of artist Victor Hartmann | Modest Mussorgsky |
| Scheherazade, Capriccio Espagnol, Russian Easter Festival Overture, Snow Maiden, Golden Cockerel, Tale of the Tsar Saltan, Mozart and Salieri, Flight of the Bumblebee | Russia 1844-1908 | Russian naval officer | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
| In the Steppes of Central Asia, Prince Igor, Polovtsian Dances | Russia 1833-1887 | Chemist, discovered aldol reaction | Alexander Borodin |
| Ruslan and Ludmila, a Life for the Czar | Russia 1804-1857 | First important russian composer | Mikhail Glinka |
| 1812 Overture, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Eugene Onegin, Queen of Spades, Winter Daydreams, Little Russian, Pathetique | Russia 1840-1893 | Supported by wealthy widow | Peter Tchaikovsky |
| Poem of Fire, Poem of Ecstasy | Russia 1872-1915 | Alexander Scriabin | |
| Isle of the Dead, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, The Bells | Russia 1873-1941 | Had Marfan's Syndrome | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| The Rake's Progress, The Firebird, Rite of Spring, Pulcinella, Dumbarton Oaks, Symphony of Psalms | Russia 1882-1971 | Igor Stravinsky | |
| Love for three Oranges, Peter and the Wolf, Scythian Suite, Prodigal Son, Lieutenant Kije Suite, Alexander Nevsky | Russia 1891-1953 | Sergei Prokofiev | |
| The Nosei, Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, Leningrad, The Year 1905, Babi-yar | Russia 1906-1975 | Dmitri-Shostakovich | |
| Iberia | Spain 1860-1909 | Isaac Albeniz | |
| Nights in the Gardens of Spain, The Three Cornered Hat | Spain 1876-1946 | Manuel de Falla | |
| Pacific 231 | Swiss | Member of the composer group "Les Six" | Arthur Honegger |
| Semper Fidelis, Stars and Stripes Forever, Washington Post March, El Capitan | USA 1841-1932 | March King | John Phillip Sousa |
| Maple Leaf Rag, The Entertainer, Treemonisha | USA 1868-1917 | Ragtime composer | Scott Joplin |
| Concord Sonata, Three Places in New England, Central Park in the Dark | USA 1874-1954 | Connecticut-born | Charles Ives |
| Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Cuban Overture, Porgy and Bess | USA 1898-1937 | George Gershwin | |
| Rodeo, Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, El Salon Mexico, Fanfare for the Common Man | USA 1900-1990 | Aaron Copland | |
| Adagio for Strings, School for Scandal, Vanessa, A Hand of Bridge | USA 1910-1981 | Samuel Barber | |
| Imaginary Landscape, Music of Changes, Number Pieces, ASLSP, 4'33" | USA 1912-1992 | Has a 639 year long performance ongoing in Halberstadt Germany | John Cage |
| Fancy Free, Jeremiah, Kaddish, Age of Anxiety, West Side Story, On the Town | USA 1918-1990 | Director of NY Philharmonic | Leonard Bernstein |
| Einstein on the Beach, Akhnaten, Satyagraha | USA 1937-Present | Minimalist composer | Philip Glass |
| Nixon in China, Chairman Dances, Death of Klinghoffer, Dr. Atomic, Short Ride in A Fast Machine, On the Transmigration of Souls, Dharma at Big Sur, Shaker Loops, Phyrgian Gates | USA 1947-Present | Minimalist composers | John Adams |
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