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Franz Liszt spawned phenomenon called "liszomania" because of his good performences Hungarian rhapsodies, transcandental etudes, Faust symphonies Hungarian
Robert Schumann Carnaval, Spring, Rhenish German
Philip Glass Score for The Truman Show, Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, Akhnaten American
Erik Satie Gnossiennes, Vexations-repeated 840 times in succession,parade French
Johannes Brahms One of the "three B's" with Bach and Beethoven Beethoven's 10th, Frei Aber Froh - Free But Happy, Wiegenlied, A German Requiem
Bela Bartok Duke Bluebeard's Castle, The Wooden Prince, The Miraculous Mandarin, Six String Quartets, Mikrokosmos, Music for Strings, Celesta Used Peasant tunes to influence his work Hungarian
Stephen Sondheim Lyricist for West-Side Story, Company, Sunday in the Park With George - won Pulitzer American
Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring, The Firebird, Petrushka Russian
Sergei Rachmaninoff C-sharp minor prelud, second piano concerto, the isle of the dead, rhapsody on a theme of paganini Russian
John (Coolidge) Adams Nixon In China, Doctor Atomic, On the transmigration of souls - about 9/11 - won Pullitzer American
John Cage Imaginary Landscape no. 4 - 12 radios tuned to different stations, 4'33 - pianist sitting at piano not playing for that length of time, As slow as possible - 639 year long performence American
Gustav Mahler Symphony of a thousand - his 8th symphony, The song of the Earth (Das Lied Von Der Erde) Austro-Bohemian
Paul Hindemith Mathis de Maler Taught at Yale German
Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the common man, Organ Symphony, Music for Theater, Billy the Kid, Rodeo, Simple Gifts American
Giuseppe Verdi Aida - about an Ethiopian princess and her lover, Rigoletto - about a hunchbacked jester Italian
Sergei Prokofiev The love for three oranges, the prodigal son, Peter and the wolf, score for the movie Alexander Nevsky, first symphony is his most important Russian (USSR)
Jean Sibelius Finlandia, Valse Triste, Karelia Suite Finnish
Franz Schubert wrote over 600 lieder (German art songs) Unfinished, great C major Austrian from Vienna
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess, Swanee, of thee I sing - won Pullitzer American
Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings, Vanessa - won Pullitzer American
Antonin Dvorak "American" String Quarter, Large was adapted to Goin Home Czech
Felix Mendelssohn "Italian", "Scottish", Hebrides overture, wedding march German
Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by thomas tallis, the lark ascending, sir John in love English
Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnol, mother goose, la valse, daphis et Chloe, pavane for a dead princess, pictures at an exhibition, bolero french
Dmitri Shostavoich The nose, lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Russian (USSR)
Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes, Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, The turn of the screw, death in Venice, the Young persons guide to the orchestra, war requiem, Billy budd English
Richard (ree - card) Wagner (vog - ner) Ring cycle, ride of the Valkyries, bridal chorus (here comes the bride) German
Arnold Schoenberg Pioneered the twelve-toned system aka the dodecophony transfigured night, pierrot lunaire, a survivor from warsaw, Moses und aron Austrian - American
Charles Ives Second Piano Sonata, Three places in New England, third symphony - won Pullitzer, general William booth enters into heaven was an insurance salesmen by trade American
Leonard Bernstein Gave "Young Peoples Concerts" Jeremiah, fancy free, Candide, West side story American
Hector Berioz Symphony fantastique, Harold in Italy, les troyens French
Claude Debussy prelude to the afternoon of a faun, Claire de lune French
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikousky Swan Lake, Sleeping beauty, The nutcracker Russian
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