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1
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Giuseppe Verdi* 5

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Italian

  • -Aida (Opera)
  • -La Traviata (Opera) – based on Dumas’ (La dame aux Camélias)
  • -Rigoletto (Opera)
  • -Il Travatore (Opera)
  • -The Anvil Chorus
2
Q

Puccini (*4)

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Italian

Madam Butterfly (Opera)
Tosca (Opera)
La Boheme
Turandot (Unfinished Opera)

3
Q

Wagner *7

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German

Tannhauser (Opera)
Parsifal (Opera)
Tristan and Isolde (Opera)
Lohengrin (Opera)
The Ring of Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle Opera)
The Flying Dutchman
Ride of the Valkyries
4
Q

Mozart*8

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Austrian - Wife Constanze Weber

The Magic Flute (Opera)
Symphony #40 in G Minor
Jupiter Symphony #41
Elvira Madigan
The Marriage of Figaro (Opera)
Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera)
Don Giovanni (Opera)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A little night music)
5
Q

Ring Cycle Operas

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Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

6
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Rossini *2

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Italian

Barber of Seville, William Tell

7
Q

Bizet

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French

Carmen

8
Q

Berlioz

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French

Les Troyens

9
Q

Gounod

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French

Faust

10
Q

Smetana

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Czech

The Bartered Bride

11
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Richard Strauss

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German
German

Salome, Der rosenkavalier, Elektra

12
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Beethoven

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German

Fidelio

13
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Engelbert Humperdink

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German

Hansel and Gretel

14
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Norway

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Edvard Grieg

Peer Gynt

15
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Finland

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Jean “Finlandia” Sibelius

16
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Poland

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Frederic “Lover of George Sand” Chopin

17
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Czechoslovakia

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Antonin “new world Symphony” Dvorak

18
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Hungary (19th Century)

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Franze “Wagner’s Father In Law” Liszt

19
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Hungary (20th Century)

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Bela “Magya Folk Music” Bartok

20
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Armenia

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Aram Khachaturian

21
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German Baroque Master

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Bach

22
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Austrian Child Prodigy

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Mozart

23
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Deaf Romantic Master

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Beethoven

24
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3rd “eroica” symphony

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Beethoven

25
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6th “Pastoral Symphony”

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Beethoven

26
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9th “Choral Symphony”

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Beethoven – Ode to Joy

27
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Lullaby

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Brahms - German

28
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Wedding March

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Felix Mendelssohn - German

29
Q

Messiah

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Handel (German/English)

30
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Water Music

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Handel (German/English)

31
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Thus Spake Zarathustra

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Richard Strauss - German

32
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Carmina Burana

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Carl Orff - German

33
Q

Canon in D

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Johann Pachelbel - German

34
Q

Waltzes in general and Blue Danube Waltz in Particular

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Johann Strauss 2 (Austrian)

35
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Lieder Composer and Unfinished symphony

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Schubert (Austrian)

36
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The planets

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Gustave Holst (UK)

37
Q

Pomp and Circumstance

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Edward Elgar (UK)

38
Q

Ave Maria

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Gounod (france – also Opera Faust)

39
Q

Symphonie Fantastique

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Berlioz (france)

40
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The carnival of animals and danse macabre

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Camille Saint-Saens (French)

41
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Bolero

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Maurice Ravel (French)

42
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Prelude to the afternoon of a faun, La Mer, and Clair de Lune

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Claude Debussy (French)

43
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The concept of Atonalism

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Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian)

44
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Symphony of a Thousand, Husband of Alma Shindler

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Gustav Mahler (Austrian)

45
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Nickname “Papa” - “Surprise Symphony”

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Joseph Haydn (Austrian)

46
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Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris

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George Gershwin (USA)

47
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The Four Seasons

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Antonio Vivaldi (Italian)

48
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References to the notion of piano virtuosity

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Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russian)

49
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Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, and Fanfare for the Common Man

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Aaron Copeland (USA)

50
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Grand Canyon Suite

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Ferde Grofe (USA)

51
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4’33” of Silence

American Avant-Garde

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John Cage (USA)

52
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1812 Overture

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Tchaikovsky (Russian)

53
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Flight of the Bumblebee

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian)

54
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Night on Bald Mountain

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Modest Mussorgsky (Russian)

55
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Peter and the Wolf

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Sergie Prokofiev (Russian)

56
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Leningrad Symphony

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Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian)

57
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References to the Notion of Violin Virtuosity

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Niccolo Paganini

58
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Russian Ballet Composers

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Tchaikovsky (Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty)
Stravinsky (Firebird, Rite of Spring, Petrushka)
Rimsky-Korsakov (Scheherazade)

59
Q

The Dying Swan

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Anna Pavlova (Russian) (1881-1931)

60
Q

Baryshnikov

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Defected to Canada in 1974, “The Turning Point” “Sex and the City”

61
Q

Accidental Automotive scarf-related death

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Isadora Duncan

62
Q

Modern Dance American Ballet Choreographer

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Martha Graham

63
Q

“Fancy Free” Choreographer and “West Side Story”

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Jerome Robbins

64
Q

“Osage (Oklahoma) Heritage and Married ot George Balanchine and Sister Marjorie

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Maria Tallchief

65
Q

“All That Jazz” and “Cabaret”

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Bob Fosse

66
Q

“Rodeo” Choreographer and Niece of Cecil B. De Mille

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Agnes de Mille

67
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Operetta

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Librettist – William S Gilbert
Composer - Arthur Sullivan

Savoy Theater – HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, the Mikado, The Yeoman of the Guard, the Gondoliers, and Thespis (First Collaboration)

68
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Operetta from Waltz King

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De Fledermaus (the bat) – Johann Strauss