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Composers
Music Akshai
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nixon in China | John Adams |
| won 2003 Pulitzer Prize for music | John Adams |
| Celeberated more as an organist than composer while alive | J.S. Bach |
| Brandenburg Concertos | J.S. Bach |
| Well Tempered Clavier | J.S. Bach |
| Adagio for Strings | Samuel Barber |
| Vanessa | Samuel Barber |
| won 1958 Music Pulitzer | Samuel Barber |
| won 1963 Pulitzer in Music | Samuel Barber |
| Hungarian Folk Music | Bela Bartok |
| Symphie Fantastique | Hector Berlioz |
| Romeo et Juliette | Hector Berlioz |
| Carmen | Georges Bizet |
| close relationship with Clara Schumann | Johannes Brahms |
| A German Requiem | Johannes Brahms |
| Weigenlied (Lullaby) | Johannes Brahms |
| A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra | Benjamin Britten |
| Rape of Lucretia | Benjamin Britten |
| Death in Venice | Benjamin Britten |
| 4'33'' | John Cage |
| Invented the Prepared Piano | John Cage |
| French Mother and Polish Father and composed mostly piano works | Frederic Chopin |
| Affair w/ George Sand | Chopin |
| Black Keys Etude | Chopin |
| Billy the Kid | Aaron Copland |
| Rodeo | Aaron Copland |
| Appalachian Spring | Aaron Copland |
| won Pulitzer in Music in 1945 | Aaron Copland |
| Fanfare for the Common Man | Aaron Copland |
| film score for Of Mice and Men | Aaron Copland |
| La Mer | Claude Debussy |
| Clair de lune | Claude Debussy |
| L'apres-midi d'un faune | Claude Debussy |
| The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Paul Dukas |
| Wrote Mickey Mouse Fantasia music on a story by Goethe | Paul Dukas |
| Slavonic Dances | Antonin Dvorak |
| From the New World | Antonin Dvorak |
| Pomp and Circumstances | Sir Edward Elgar |
| Rhapsody in Blue | George Gershwin |
| Let's Call the Whole Thing Off | George Gershwin |
| Porgy and Bess | George Gershwin |
| first jazz opera; contained Ain't Misbehavin and Summertime | George Gershwin |
| Einstein on the BEach | Philip Glass |
| Peer Gynt Suites | Edvard Grieg |
| In the Hall of the Mountain King | Edvard Grieg |
| Messiah | George Frideric Handel |
| oratorio containing Hallelujah Chorus | George Frideric Handel |
| Water Music (written for George I) | George Frideric Handel |
| Music for the Royal Fireworks (written for Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) | George Frideric Handel |
| Suprise Symphony | Joseph Haydn |
| The Seasons (oratorio) | Joseph Haydn |
| London Symphonies | Joseph Haydn |
| Mars and Jupiter symphony section (composer interested in Eastern and Indian culture) | Gustav Holst |
| The Planets | Gustav Holst |
| Hansel and Gretel | Engelbert Humperdinck |
| Maple Leaf Rag | Scott Joplin |
| The Entertainer | Scott Joplin |
| Treemonisha | Scott Joplin |
| Hungarian Rhapsodies | Franz Liszt |
| Originated practice of giving audience profile view | Franz Liszt |
| Leonard Bernstein's idol | Gustav Mahler |
| Resurrection Symphony | Gustav Mahler |
| Song of the Earth | Gustav Mahler |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (overture) | Felix Mendelssohn |
| The Wedding March | Felix Mendelssohn |
| Amahl and the Night Visiters | Gian Carlo Menotti |
| won Pulitzer in 1950 | Gian Carlo Menotti |
| won 1955 Pulitzer Music | Gian Carlo Menotti |
| Claudio Monteverdi | Orfeo |
| Bridged High Rennaisance and Baroque | Orfeo |
| bridged Classical and Romantic | Beethoven |
| Boris Gudunov | Modest Moussorgsky |
| Pictures at an Exhibition | Modest Moussorgsky |
| subject of a play by Peter Schaffer | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Cosi Fan Tutte | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| So Do All Women | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Don Giovanni | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| The Magic Flute | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| The Marriage of Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Le Nozze di Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Die Zauberflote | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Eine Kleine Nachtmusik | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Carmina Burama | Carl Orff |
| Such a great violin virtuoso, alleged to have sold his soul to the devil | Niccolo Paganini |
| 24 Capricci | Niccolo Paganini |
| Sergei Prokofiev | Peter and the Wolf |
| La Boheme | Giacomo Puccini |
| Tosca | Giacomo Puccini |
| Madame Butterfly | Giacomo Puccini |
| Turandot (unfinished) | Giacomo Puccini |
| Dido and Aeneas | Henry Purcell |
| Fairy Queen | Henry Purcell |
| Bolero | Maurice Ravel |
| Sheherazade Suite | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Leged of Tsar Sultan | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Flight of the Bumblebee | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Guillaume Tell | Gioacchino Rossini |
| Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Rossini |
| The Barber of Seville | Rossini |
| William Tell | Rossini |
| Danse macabre | Camille Saint-Saens |
| Carnival of Animals | Camille Saint-Saens |
| Gymnopedies | Erik Satie |
| Unfinished Symphony | Franz (Peter) Schubert |
| Scenes from Childhood | Robert Schumann |
| Album for the Young | Robert Schumann |
| Finlandia | Jean Sibelius |
| "Waltz King" | Johann Strauss II |
| Blue Danube Waltz | Johann Strauss II |
| Die Fledermaus | Johann Strauss II |
| The Bat | Johann Strauss II |
| Also sprach Zarathustra | Richard Strauss |
| based works on Oscar Wilde and Nietzsche | Richard Strauss |
| Thus Spake Zarathustra | Richard Strauss |
| Swan Lake | Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| Sleeping Beauty | Peter Tchaikovsky |
| Nutcracker | Tchaikovsky |
| 1812 Overture | Tchaikovsky |
| Firebird | Stravinsky |
| Petrushka | Stravinsky |
| Rite of Spring | Stravinsky |
| Rigoletto | Giuseppe Verdi |
| La Traviata | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Aida | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Otello | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Falstaff | Giuseppe Verdi |
| First Four concertos a.k.a. Four Seasons | Antonio Vivaldi |
| Nicknamed the Red Priest | Antonio Vivaldi |
| Gloria | Vivaldi |
| wed Liszt's daughter | Richard Wagner |
| Die Fleigende Hollander | Richard Wagner |
| Flying Dutchman | Richard Wagner |
| Tristan und Isolde | Richard Wagner |
| Ride of the Valkyries | Richard Wagner |
| Gotterdamerung | Richard Wagner |
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