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Composers Etc Flashcards

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

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Giuseppe Verdi

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

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Giacomo Puccini

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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

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Richard Wagner

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

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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Gioachino Rossini

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Italian composer of opera Pagliacci

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Ruggero Leoncavallo

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

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Gaetano Donizetti

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Italian opera composer of Cavalleria Rusticana

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Pietro Mascagni

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French opera composer of Carmen

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Georges Bizet

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

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Jacques Offenbach

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French opera composer of Les Troyes

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Hector Berlioz

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French opera composer of Faust

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Charles Gounod

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Czech composer of the opera The Bartered Bride

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Bedrich Smetana

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Austrian composer of the opera Wozzeck

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Alban Berg

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German composer of the opera Fidelio

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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German composer of the operas Salome, Electra, der rosenkavalier

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Richard Strauss

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German composer of the opera Hansel and Gretel

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Engelbert Humperdinck

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UK composer of opera Billy Budd

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Benjamin Britten

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American composer of the opera Porgy and Bess

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George Gershwin

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American composer of the opera Amahl and the Night Visitors

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Gian Carlo Menotti

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21
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American composer of Einstein on the Beach

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Philip Glass

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American composer of the opera Nixon in China

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John Adams

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

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Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Russian composer of the Opera Boris Godunov

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Modest Mussorgsky

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Russian composer of the opera Prince Igor

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Alexander Borodin

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Norwegian composer of peer gynt

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Edvard Grieg

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Finnish composer of Finlandia

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Jean Sibelius

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Polish composer, piano, lover of George Sand

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Frederic Chopin

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Czechoslovakian composer of the New World Symphony

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Antonin Dvorak

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

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Frank Liszt

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20th century Hungarian composer of Magyar folk music

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Bela Barton

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Armenian composer

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Adam Khachaturian

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German composer, famous for his lullaby

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Johannes Brahms

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German composer of the Wedding March

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Felix Mendelssohn

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German composer of Canon in D

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Johann Pachelbel

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German composer of Water Music and Messiah

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George Frideric Handel

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German composer of Thus Spake Zarathustra

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Richard Strauss

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German composer of Spring Symphony, married to pianist Clara

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Robert Schumann

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German composer of Carmina Burana

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Carol Orff

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Austrian waltz composer, including The Blue Danube Waltz

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Johann Strauss II

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Austrian composer of Lieder and Unfinished Symphony

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Frank Schubert

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Austrian composer, nicknamed Papa, the Surprise Symphony

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Joseph Haydn

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

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Gustav Mahler

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Austrian composer known for atonalism

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Arnold Schoenberg

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

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Claud Debussy

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French composer of Bolero

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Maurice Ravel

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French composer of The Carnival of the Animals and Danae Macabre

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Camille Saint-Saens

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French composer of Symphony Fantastique

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Hector Berlioz

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French composer of Ave Maria

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Charles Gounod

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UK composer of The Planets

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Gustav Holst

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UK composer of Pomp and Circumstance

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Edward Elgar

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American composer of Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris

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George Gershwin

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

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Aaron Copland

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American composer of Grand Canyon Suite

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Ferde Grofe

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

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John Cage

56
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Russian composer of 1812 overture

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

57
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Russian composer of Flight of the Bumblebee

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

58
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Russian composer of Night on Bald Mountain

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Modest Mussorgsky

59
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Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf

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Sergei Prokofiev

60
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Russian composer of the Leningrad Symphony

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Dmitri Shostakovich

61
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Russian piano virtuoso

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Italian composer of the Four Seasons

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Antonio Vivaldi

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Italian violin virtuoso

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Nicole Paganini

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Russian composer of ballets Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty

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Tchaikovsky

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Russian composer of ballets Firebird, Rite of Spring, Petrushka

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Igor Stravinsky

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Russian composer of ballet Scheherazade

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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

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Anna pavlova

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

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Mikhail Baryshnikov

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