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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This Brazilian composer dedicated his "12 Etudes" for the guitar to Andres Segovia | Heitor Villa Lobos |
| This Finnish composer created works such as Finlandia and Tapiola and his only opera Maiden in the Tower, died in 1957 | Jean Sibelius |
| This Czech composer played the viola and his most famous works was the Bartered Bride and Libuse | Bedrich Smetana |
| Main characters include Kecal the marriage broker, Jenik, amd Marenka the titular character | The Bartered Bride |
| This Polish pianist was the first Prime Minister of Poland and was a leader in exile when he died in 1941 | Ignace Jan Paderewski |
| This Hungarian composer wrote some famous works for the cello | Zoltan Kodaly |
| A surprise hit album of 1993 was this contemporary Polish composer's "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" | Henryk Gorecki |
| This Spanish composer's most famous work is the Three Cornered Hat or El Sombrero de Tres Picos | Manuel de Falla |
| This Hungarian composer wrote an operetta called The Merry Widow | Franz Lehar |
| This Norweigan composer who wrote the music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt (Suite) also created The Hall of the Mountain King and his only opera Olaf Trygvason | Edvard Grieg |
| This Norweigan composer had a house named Troldhaugen outside of Bergen and the movie Son of Norway was loosely based on his life | Edvard Grieg |
| This Armenian composer's famous sabre dance from the ballet "Gayane" also wrote numerous Pro-Soviet works | Aram Khachaturian |
| This Hungarian composer first came to the US in 1927, died in New York in 1945 and was reburied in Budapest in 1988 | Bela Bartok |
| This 20th century Hungarian folk music composer's works included Mikrokosmos, The Wooden Prince, and his only opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle | Bela Bartok |
| In 1971 this French composer was selected to replace Leonard Bernstein as director of the N.Y. Philharmonic | Pierre Boulez |