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Johann Sebastian Bach *6

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German Baroque Composer (1685 – 28 July 1750)

Brandenburg Concertos (1-6)
The Well Tempered Clavier
Toccata and Fugue
Goldberg Variations
School for Scandal
Adagio for Strings
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Ludwig Van Beethoven *8

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German (1770-1827) A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic

Eroica Symphony #3
Pastoral Sympothy #6
Choral Symphony #9 (Ode to Joy)
Egmont Overture
Fidelio (His Only Opera)
Moonlight Sonata
"Emperor" Piano Concerto
Fur Elise
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Hector Berlioz *3

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French (December 1803 – 8 March 1869)
Romantic composer,

Symphonie Fantastique
Damnation of Faust
Les Troyens (Opera)

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George Bizet *2

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French (1838 – 3 June 1875)

Carmen (Opera, set in Seville)
L’Arlesienne

Romantic Era

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Alexandr Borodin *1

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Russian Russian Romantic composer, doctor and chemist. (1883-1887)

Prince Igor (Opera)

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Johannes Brahms *2

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German (1833 – 3 April 1897))

Hungarian Dances
Lullaby

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Benjamin Britten *1

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British

Billy Budd (Opera)

22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music

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Alexis Chabrier *1

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French Romantic

Espana

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Frederic Chopin *1

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Polish Romantic

Numerous Scherzo, Etudes, and Mazurkas
who wrote primarily for the solo piano
Child Prodigy
Lover of George Sand (French Authoress)

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Aaron Copeland *4

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American (1900-1990)

Appalachian Spring
Fanfare for the Common Man
Billy the Kid (Opera)
Music for a Great City

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Claude Debussy *3

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French

Clair De Lune
La Mer
Prelude, Afternoon of a Faun

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Gaetano Donizetti *1

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Italian

Lucia Di Lammermoor (Opera)

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Antonin Dvorak *2

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Czech - the “Bohemian” Composer

Humoresque
The New World Symphony

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Edward Elgar *2

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English

Pomp and Circumstance
Enigma Variations

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George Gershwin* 3

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American

Rhapsody in Blue
Porgy and Bess (Opera)
And American in Paris

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Edvard Grieg *2

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Norwegian

Peer Gynt
Piano Concerto in A Minor

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Charles Gounod *1

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French

Faust (Opera)

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George Friedrich Handel *3

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German Oratorio Composer, Lived at Times in England

Messiah
Water Music
Music for Royal Fireworks

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Joseph Franz Haydn *4

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Austrian (Nickname “papa” or “father of the symphony”)

The Creation
Surprise Symphony #94
Military Symphony #100
The Clock Symphony #101

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Victor Herbert *1

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Irish-American

Babes in Toyland (Opera)

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Gustav Holst *1

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English

The Planets

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Engelbert Humperdink *1

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German

Hansel and Gretel

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Aram Khachaturian *1

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Soviet-American

Sabre Dance

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Ruggiero Leoncavallo *1

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Italian

I Pagliacci (Opera)

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Franz Liszt *1
Hungarian Hungarian Rhapsody
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Jules Massenet *1
French Thais
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Felix Mendelssohn *3
German, Lived for a Time in Scotland A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture Violin Concerto in E Minor Hebrides Overture
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Gian Carlo Menotti *1
20th Century Italian Amahl and the Night Visitors (Opera)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart *8
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) ```
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Modest Mussorgsky *3
Russian Night on Bare (Bald) Mountain PIctures at an Exhibition Boris Godunov (Opera)
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Carl Orff *1
German Carmina Burana
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Jacques Offenbach *3
German Tales of Hoffman Orpheus in the Underworld OVER 100 OPERETTAS
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Johann Pachelbel *1
German Canon
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Sergei Prokofiev *2
Russian Peter and the Wolf Romeo and Juliet (Opera)
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Giacomo Puccini *4
Italian Madam Butterfly (Opera) Tosca (Opera) La Boheme Turandot (Unfinished Opera)
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Sergei Rachmaninov *3
20th Century Russian Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Piano Concerto #2 Piano Concerto #3 (Used in the Movie SHine)
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Maurice Ravel *2
French Bolero Mother Goose Suite
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Ottorino Respighi *2
Italian The Pines of Rome Ancient Airs and Dances
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov *2
Russian Flight of the Bumble Bee Scheherazade
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Gioacchino Rossini *2
Italian William Tell OVerture The Barber of Seville (Opera - about Figaro)
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Camille Saint Saens*3
French Danse Macabre The Carnival of the Animals Symphony #3, Organ Symphony
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Erik Satie *1
French Gymnopedies
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Franz Schubert *4
Austrian "Lieder" Composer Ave Maria "The Trout" String Quartet The Great C Major Symphony The Unfinished Symphony
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Jean Sibelius*
Finnish Finlandia
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Bedrich Smetana *2
Czecheslovakian ``` The Bartered Bride (Opera) Ma Vlast (My Country) ```
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John Philip Sousa *1
American "The March King" Stars and Stripes Forever
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Johann Strauss *3
Austrian "The Waltz King" Die Fledermaus ("The Bat" - Operetta) The Blue Danube Waltz Tales from the Vienna Woods
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Richard Strauss *5
Austrian ``` Don Juan (Opera) Thus Spake Zarathustra (Theme to 2001: a Space Odyssey) Don Quixote (Opera) Der Rosenkavalier (Opera) Salome (Opera) ```
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Igor Stravinsky *3
Russian Firebird Rite of Spring Petrushka (Puppet Ballet)
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Franz Von Suppe *1
Austrian Poet and Peasant Overture
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Peter Tchaikovsky *6
Russain ``` The Nutcracker (Ballet) Swan Lake (Ballet) 1812 OVerture Romeo and Juliet Symphony #6 (Pathetique) Eugene Onegin (Opera) The Queen of Spades ```
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Guiseppe Verdi *5
``` Aida (Opera) La Traviata (Opera) -- (Alexandre Dumas, fils's 1852 play La dame aux Camélias) Rigoletto (Opera) Il Travatore (Opera) The Anvil Chorus ```
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Antonio Vivaldi *1
Italian The Four Seasons
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Richard Wagner *7
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 ```
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Kurt Weill *1
German The Threepenny Opera
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Periods of Classical Music
Medieval (500–1400) Renaissance (1400–1600) Common practice period, which includes the Baroque (1600–1750), Classical (1750–1830) Romantic (1804–1910); 20th century (1901–2000) which includes the modern period (1890-1930) that overlaps from the late 19th-century, the high modern (mid 20th-century), and contemporary (1975–2000) period, the last of which overlaps into the 21st-century.
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Philip Glass
USA Einstein on the Beach
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John Adams
USA Nixon in China

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