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20th C. Composers
YGK These 20th-Century Composers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The composer who studied under Rimsky-Korsakov and completed the ballets The Firebird and Petrushka | Igor Stravinsky |
| The 1913 Paris premiere of this pagan-themed ballet caused a riot and inaugurated music’s Modern era | The Rite of Spring |
| The 1957 abstract ballet by Stravinsky that utilized Anton Webern's twelve-tone style | Agon |
| Austrian pioneer of dodecaphony, or the twelve-tone system | Arnold Schoenberg |
| The vocal technique halfway between singing and speaking used in Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire | Sprechstimme |
| The two famous students of Arnold Schoenberg who further developed his theories | Alban Berg and Anton Webern |
| U.K. composer who revived British opera with Peter Grimes in 1945 | Benjamin Britten |
| The 1946 orchestral work by Britten designed to educate young listeners | The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra |
| The first American student of Nadia Boulanger who composed Appalachian Spring | Aaron Copland |
| The Shaker hymn featured in Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring | Simple Gifts |
| The Russian composer of the children’s work Peter and the Wolf and the First Symphony ("Classical") | Sergei Prokofiev |
| The Soviet leader whose 1936 criticism in Pravda forced Shostakovich to write more conciliatory music | Joseph Stalin |
| Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony, which condemned anti-Semitism in both Germany and the USSR | Babi Yar |
| The Hungarian composer who traveled the countryside with Zoltan Kodály to collect peasant tunes | Béla Bartók |
| The educational piano piece written by Béla Bartók | Mikrokosmos |
| The Connecticut insurance salesman who composed Three Places in New England | Charles Ives |
| The Pulitzer Prize-winning symphony by Charles Ives | Third Symphony |
| The composer of Bolero who also re-orchestrated Pictures at an Exhibition | Maurice Ravel |
| The American composer who melded jazz and classical music in Rhapsody in Blue | George Gershwin |
| The first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, written by George Gershwin | Of Thee I Sing |
| The "chance" music composer who created the silent work 4′33″ | John Cage |
| The invention by John Cage involving placing screws and rubber bands on piano strings | Prepared piano |
| The English composer who revived Tudor style in Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| The Shakespearean opera by Vaughan Williams that features the "Fantasia on Greensleeves" | Sir John in Love |
| The highly skilled pianist and conductor who twice turned down conductorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| The early piece from 1892 that Rachmaninoff sold cheaply to a publisher, failing to profit from its popularity | C-Sharp Minor Prelude |
| The treatment Rachmaninoff underwent in 1901 that helped him begin a productive period | Hypnosis |
| The symphonic poem composed by Rachmaninoff in 1909 | The Isle of the Dead |
| The year and event that prompted Rachmaninoff to move to the U.S. | 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution |
| The major work completed by Rachmaninoff in the U.S. in 1934 | Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
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