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Quiz Bowl Composers Test

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Austria Famous symphonies: Paris, Prague, Jupiter--31, 38, and 41 Famous operas: Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute
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Italy Cinderella, The Barber of Seville, and the William Tell Overture
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USA African-American ragtime composer Maple Leaf Rag, The Entertainer, Treemonisha
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Austria The Younger, "Waltz King" known for Blue Danube Waltz and operetta, Die Fledermaus
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Germany Student of Haydn, went deaf, wrote Fur Elise, Ode to Joy-Chorale, Fidelio, Emperor Concerto, 9 Symphonies
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Germany Nazi leader, but conflicted too much Wrote Also scrach Zarathustra, Salome, Der Rosenkavalier
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Russia Supported by wealthy widow, The 1812 Overture, Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, Eugene Onegin, Pathetique (6)
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Russia The Rake's Progress, the Firebird, the Rite of Spring, Petruschka, Dumbarton Oaks
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USA Known as the "March King," bandmaster for the Marine Corps Band Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis, Washington Post March, operetta El Capitan
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Italy Cleric who worked for girls' orphanage, nicknamed "The Red Priest" Four Seasons (from the Contest Between Harmony and Invention) and Orlando Furioso
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Austria Wrote more than 600 art songs, called lieder, famous for Symphony #8, The Unfinished, along with Symphonies 7/9 and 10, The Great and The Last
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Born German, but French most of his life The Tales of Hoffman, Orpheus in the Underworld--containing The Can-Can--, Robinson Crusoe
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Germany Married the daughter of Franz Liszt The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin (Wedding March), Siegfrid, Parcifal, the Ring Cycle
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Germany Music teacher of Marie-Antoinette, wrote the opera Orpheus and Eurydice
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Bohemia/Czechoslovakia Best known for From the New World, also wrote Slavonic Dances, Moravian Duets, Stabat Mater, and the opera Rusalka
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Hungary Student of Salieri, wildly popular in 1840s Hungarian Rhpasodies, Les Preludes, Totentanz, Mephisto
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Cristoph Gluck
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Antonin Dvorak
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Richard Wagner
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Peter Tchaikovsky
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Johann Strauss
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John Phillip Sousa
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Franz Liszt
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Scott Joplin
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Franz Schubert
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Jacques Offenbach
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Wolfgang Mozart
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Antonio Vivaldi
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Igor Stravinsky
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Richard Strauss
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Gioachino Rossini
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Germany Close to Clara Schumann--10th symphony like Beethoven Wrote 4 symphonies, Lullaby (Weigenlied), Hungarian Dances
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France The Fair Maid of Perth and The Pearl Fishers. His best known opera is Carmen, which is based on a play by Merimee. He also wrote the minor opera L'Arlesienne.
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Germany Known for contrapuntal technique, organist Bradenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier
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France Bolero, Lavalse Wrote a piano concerto for left hand only
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Poland Friends with George Sand, wrote mazurkas, preludes, etudes, and polonaises Wrote Raindrop Prelude, Revolutionary Etude
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Norway Peer Gynt (Morning Mood, In the Hall of the Mountain King), Holberg Suite, Lyric Pieces
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France Musical equivalent of "Impressionism," though often tied to "Symbolism" because of his Symbolist poet friends
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Italy Prolific--Turandot, Madame Butterfly, Tosca, La Boheme
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Germany Baroque composer who wrote Canon in D
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Italy Romantic operatic composer--Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida, Falsaff, Il Trovatore, "La Donna E Mobile" from R-

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