Composers Flashcards
Who composed Symphonie Fantastique, a dream-like symphony about an artist who poisoned himself with opium?
Hector Berlioz
Who composed Harold in Italy for Paganini, who was at first disappointed by it?
Hector Berlioz
What virtuoso violinist wrote 24 Caprices for Violin?
Niccolo Paganini
Who composed The Fairy Queen, featured in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Henry Purcell
Who composed Suite Bergamasque, a piano suite whose third movement features Clair de Lune?
Claude Debussy
What French composer and “father of Impressionist music” composed Pelleas et Melisande, his single completed opera?
Claude Debussy
Which composer of the Indiana Jones films also composed for t.v. shows Gilligan’s Island and Lost in Space?
John Williams
Who composed for the musical, West Side Story?
Leonard Bernstein
Which Austrian composer, targeted by the Nazis for “degenerate” music, composed Pelleas und Melisande, a symphonic poem?
Arnold Schoenberg
Which minimalist composer and conductor composed the opera Nixon in China?
John Adams
Which British composer and pianist cofounded the contemporary classical
ensemble Piano Circus - formed to
perform Six Pianos by Reich in
1989?
Max Richter
Which composer won a Pulitzer for On the Transmigration of Souls, which commemorated the victims of the 9/11 attacks?
John Adams
Who composed the Pulitzer-winning Vanessa, a three-act American opera based on the novella Seven Gothic Tales?
Samuel Barber
Which composer of Kiss Me, Kate, also composed music for the movie High Society?
Cole Porter
Which American Modernist composer wrote Central Park in the Dark and Three Places in New England?
Charles Ives
Which African-American jazz musician had a #1 hit in 1938 with “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart.”
Duke Ellington
Which American minimalist composer and 2009 Pulitzer winner wrote Different Trains for string quartet and tape, about World War II?
Steve Reich
Which American composer, investigated by the FBI during the Red Scare, wrote Fanfare for the Common Man after being inspired by a speech given by Vice President Henry Wallace?
Aaron Copland
Which African-American ragtime composer wrote The Cascades, about artificial waterfalls at the St. Louis World’s Fair?
Scott Joplin
Which composer wrote Puttin’ on the Ritz, a song associated with Fred Astaire, who danced to it for the movie Blue Skies?
Irving Berlin
