Composers Etc

Question 1

Italian opera composer of operas including Nabucodonosor, Rigoletto, La traviata, Aida, Otello, Falstaff. 1813-1901

Answer 1

Giuseppe Verdi

Question 2

Italian composer of operas La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Turandot. 1858-1924

Answer 2

Giacomo Puccini

Question 3

German opera composer of the Ring Cycle - “Der Ring des Nibelungen - The Ring of the Nibelung”. The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal. 1813-1883

Answer 3

Richard Wagner

Question 4

Austrian composer of operas the Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, The Magic Flute. 1756-1791

Answer 4

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 5

Italian composer of operas The Barber of Seville and William Tell.

Answer 5

Gioachino Rossini

Question 6

Italian composer of opera Pagliacci

Answer 6

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Question 7

Italian opera composer of Lucia di Lammermoor and The Daughter of the Regiment

Answer 7

Gaetano Donizetti

Question 8

Italian opera composer of Cavalleria Rusticana

Answer 8

Pietro Mascagni

Question 9

French opera composer of Carmen

Answer 9

Georges Bizet

Question 10

French opera composer of Tales of Hoffman, Orpheus in the Underworld. “Opera bouffe”

Answer 10

Jacques Offenbach

Question 11

French opera composer of Les Troyes

Answer 11

Hector Berlioz

Question 12

French opera composer of Faust

Answer 12

Charles Gounod

Question 13

Czech composer of the opera The Bartered Bride

Answer 13

Bedrich Smetana

Question 14

Austrian composer of the opera Wozzeck

Answer 14

Alban Berg

Question 15

German composer of the opera Fidelio

Answer 15

Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 16

German composer of the operas Salome, Electra, der rosenkavalier

Answer 16

Richard Strauss

Question 17

German composer of the opera Hansel and Gretel

Answer 17

Engelbert Humperdinck

Question 18

UK composer of opera Billy Budd

Answer 18

Benjamin Britten

Question 19

American composer of the opera Porgy and Bess

Answer 19

George Gershwin

Question 20

American composer of the opera Amahl and the Night Visitors

Answer 20

Gian Carlo Menotti

Question 21

American composer of Einstein on the Beach

Answer 21

Philip Glass

Question 22

American composer of the opera Nixon in China

Answer 22

John Adams

Question 23

Russian composer of the operas Eugene Onegin and The queen of spades

Answer 23

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Question 24

Russian composer of the Opera Boris Godunov

Answer 24

Modest Mussorgsky

Question 25

Russian composer of the opera Prince Igor

Answer 25

Alexander Borodin

Question 26

Norwegian composer of peer gynt

Answer 26

Edvard Grieg

Question 27

Finnish composer of Finlandia

Answer 27

Jean Sibelius

Question 28

Polish composer, piano, lover of George Sand

Answer 28

Frederic Chopin

Question 29

Czechoslovakian composer of the New World Symphony

Answer 29

Antonin Dvorak

Question 30

19th century Hungarian composer of Mephisto Waltz, Faust Symphony, many Hungarian Rhapsodies. Representative of the New German School.

Answer 30

Frank Liszt

Question 31

20th century Hungarian composer of Magyar folk music

Answer 31

Bela Barton

Question 32

Armenian composer

Answer 32

Adam Khachaturian

Question 33

German composer, famous for his lullaby

Answer 33

Johannes Brahms

Question 34

German composer of the Wedding March

Answer 34

Felix Mendelssohn

Question 35

German composer of Canon in D

Answer 35

Johann Pachelbel

Question 36

German composer of Water Music and Messiah

Answer 36

George Frideric Handel

Question 37

German composer of Thus Spake Zarathustra

Answer 37

Richard Strauss

Question 38

German composer of Spring Symphony, married to pianist Clara

Answer 38

Robert Schumann

Question 39

German composer of Carmina Burana

Answer 39

Carol Orff

Question 40

Austrian waltz composer, including The Blue Danube Waltz

Answer 40

Johann Strauss II

Question 41

Austrian composer of Lieder and Unfinished Symphony

Answer 41

Frank Schubert

Question 42

Austrian composer, nicknamed Papa, the Surprise Symphony

Answer 42

Joseph Haydn

Question 43

Austrian composer of Symphony of a Thousand , married to Alma Schindler

Answer 43

Gustav Mahler

Question 44

Austrian composer known for atonalism

Answer 44

Arnold Schoenberg

Question 45

French composer of Clair de Lune, La Mer, Prelude to the afternoon of a faun

Answer 45

Claud Debussy

Question 46

French composer of Bolero

Answer 46

Maurice Ravel

Question 47

French composer of The Carnival of the Animals and Danae Macabre

Answer 47

Camille Saint-Saens

Question 48

French composer of Symphony Fantastique

Answer 48

Hector Berlioz

Question 49

French composer of Ave Maria

Answer 49

Charles Gounod

Question 50

UK composer of The Planets

Answer 50

Gustav Holst

Question 51

UK composer of Pomp and Circumstance

Answer 51

Edward Elgar

Question 52

American composer of Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris

Answer 52

George Gershwin

Question 53

American composer of Appalachian Spring, Rodeo and Fanfare for the Common Man

Answer 53

Aaron Copland

Question 54

American composer of Grand Canyon Suite

Answer 54

Ferde Grofe

Question 55

American composer of 4’33 of silence, avant-grade

Answer 55

John Cage

Question 56

Russian composer of 1812 overture

Answer 56

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Question 57

Russian composer of Flight of the Bumblebee

Answer 57

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Question 58

Russian composer of Night on Bald Mountain

Answer 58

Modest Mussorgsky

Question 59

Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf

Answer 59

Sergei Prokofiev

Question 60

Russian composer of the Leningrad Symphony

Answer 60

Dmitri Shostakovich

Question 61

Russian piano virtuoso

Answer 61

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Question 62

Italian composer of the Four Seasons

Answer 62

Antonio Vivaldi

Question 63

Italian violin virtuoso

Answer 63

Nicole Paganini

Question 64

Russian composer of ballets Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty

Answer 64

Tchaikovsky

Question 65

Russian composer of ballets Firebird, Rite of Spring, Petrushka

Answer 65

Igor Stravinsky

Question 66

Russian composer of ballet Scheherazade

Answer 66

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Question 67

Russian ballet dancer (1881-1931) associated with the “dying swan”.

Answer 67

Anna pavlova

Question 68

Russian ballet dancer who defected to Canada in 1974, known for the movie White Nights and appeared in Sex and the CIty

Answer 68

Mikhail Baryshnikov