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Composer who completed the grand ballets Firebird and Petrushka for Sergei Diaghilev

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Igor Stravinsky

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Composer who produced the neoclassical work Symphony of Psalms

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Igor Stravinsky

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Composer who moved to Hollywood, where he produced his only full-length opera, The Rake’s Progress

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Igor Stravinsky

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Composer who adopted the serialist, twelve-tone style of Anton Webern to produce the abstract ballet Agon

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Igor Stravinsky

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Austrian composer who pioneered dodecaphony, the twelve-tone system, which treated all parts of the chromatic scale equally

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Composer influenced by Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner, evident in his Transfigured Night for Strings

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Arnold Schoenberg

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German musical term meaning “halfway between singing and speaking”

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Sprechstimme

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Composer who broke from romanticism and developed expressionist pieces free from key or tone, such as Pierrot lunaire

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Composer whose students include Alban Berg and Anton Webern

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Composer who fled Nazi Germany, moving from Berlin to Los Angeles, where he completed A Survivor from Warsaw

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Composer whose first two acts of his unfinished opera Moses und Aron are still performed today

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Composer who studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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Igor Stravinsky

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Composer who revived the opera in the U.K. with Peter Grimes

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Benjamin Britten

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Britten opera about a fisherman who kills two of his apprentices

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Peter Grimes

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Composer who wrote Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, a tribute to his composition teacher

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Benjamin Britten

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Composer who wrote incidental music for works by his friend W.H. Auden

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Benjamin Britten

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Classical music festival founded by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears

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Aldeburgh Festival of Music

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Composer who founded the Aldeburgh Festival of Music with his companion Peter Pears

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Benjamin Britten

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Composer of the operas Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice

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Benjamin Britten

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Composer who wrote the American West theme El Salón Mexico

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Aaron Copland

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Composer of War Requiem, based on the anti-war poems of Wilfred Owen, who was killed during World War I

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Benjamin Britten

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Composer who was the first American student of the pedagogue Nadia Boulanger

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Aaron Copland

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Composer who finished his Organ Symphony and Music for the Theatre in Paris in the 1920s

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Aaron Copland

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Composer who wrote the ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring

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Aaron Copland

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Copland ballet containing the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts”

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Appalachian Spring

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Composer whose Third Symphony contains his Fanfare for the Common Man

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Aaron Copland

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Composer whose Lincoln Portrait featured spoken portions of Abraham Lincoln’s writings

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Aaron Copland

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Composer of several educational books, beginning with 1939’s What to Listen for in Music

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Aaron Copland

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Composer of seven symphonies, of which the First (“Classical”) is the most notable

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Composer who premiered the opera The Love for Three Oranges while in Chicago, based on Italian commedia dell’arte

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Composer who wrote works for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, including The Prodigal Son

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Composer who wrote the score for the film Alexander Nevsky upon returning to the U.S.S.R

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Composer denounced by Stalin as “decadent” and forced to write obsequious tributes to him. He would go on to die just hours after Stalin on March 5, 1953

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Composer whose works were emblematic of both the Soviet regime and his attempts to survive under its oppression. He was severely criticized by Stalin in Pravda in 1936

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Dmitri Shostakovich

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Composer who wrote the operas The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

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Dmitri Shostakovich

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Composer who wrote the conciliatory pieces Fifth Symphony, Seventh Symphony (“Leningrad”), and Twelfth Symphony

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Dmitri Shostakovich

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Composer who made enemies with his Thirteenth Symphony (“Babi Yar”), based on the Yevgeny Yevtushenko poem

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Dmitri Shostakovich

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Soviet poet who wrote Babi Yar, condemning anti-Semitism, upon which Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony was based

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Composer whose Basque mother gave him an affinity for Spanish themes, such as Rapsodie espagnole

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Maurice Ravel

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Composer of Pavane for a Dead Princess while a student of Gabriel Fauré

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Maurice Ravel

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Composer overlooked by the French Conservatory for the Prix de Rome four times

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Maurice Ravel

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Composer of the ballet Daphnis et Chloé for Sergei Diaghilev, as well as Mother Goose and La Valse

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Maurice Ravel

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Composer who reorchestrated Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition

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Maurice Ravel

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Composer whose health declined after a 1932 taxi accident. Unsuccessful brain surgery ended his life

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Maurice Ravel

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Composer of the Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra

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George Gershwin

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Author upon whose story Porgy and Bess the Gershwin opera was based

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DuBose Heyward

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Gershwin’s first major hit, sung by Al Jolson in 1919

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Swanee

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Composer of the first musical to win the Pullitzer Prize for Drama, Of Thee I Sing

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George Gershwin

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Composer who died of a brain tumour at age 38

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George Gershwin

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American avant-garde student of Arnold Schoenberg

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John Cage

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Dada composer who propagated aleatory, or “chance” music

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John Cage

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Composer of Imaginary Landscape No. 4, using twelve radios tuned to different stations, the composition depending on what was playing at the time

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John Cage

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Composer of 4’33”, which required a pianist to sit at the piano for that length of time and close it; audience noise and silence created the music

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John Cage

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Inventor of the prepared piano, in which screws, wood, and rubber bands were attached to piano strings to create percussion sounds

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John Cage

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Composer who revived the Tudor style and folk traditions in English music

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Composer of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Hugh the Drover, and the Pilgrim’s Progress

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Composer of nine symphonies, notably his First Symphony (“Sea”), Second Symphony (“London”), Third Symphony (“Pastoral”), and Seventh Symphony (“Sinfonia Antarctica”)

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Ralph Vaughan Williams work based on a George Meredith poem

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The Lark Ascending

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Ralph Vaughan Williams opera featuring the Fantasia on Greensleeves

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Sir John in Love

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Composer of the Shakespearean opera Sir John in Love, featuring the Fantasia on Greensleeves

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Virtuouso pianist and conductor who twice turned down conductorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Composer who cheaply sold his early pieces to a publisher, such as C-Sharp Minor Prelude

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Composer treated by hypnosis in 1901 to cure his multi-year depression

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Composer of Second Piano Concerto and the symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Composer who moved to the U.S. in 1917 following the Bolshevik Revolution

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Composer who completed Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Composer inspired by peasant tunes of the Hungarian countryside with Zoltan Kodály

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Béla Bartók

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Composer of the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

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Béla Bartók

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Composer of the ballets The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin

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Béla Bartók

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Virtuouso pianist and innovative composer who fled Nazi-allied Hungary for the U.S. in 1940

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Béla Bartók

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Composer of many instrumental pieces, notably six string quartets, the educational piece Mikrokosmos, and Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

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Béla Bartók

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Composer who studied music at Yale but found insurance sales more lucrative

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Charles Ives

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Composer whose insurance firm with Myrick was the largest in New York during the 1910s

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Charles Ives

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State in which composer Charles Ives was born

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Connecticut

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Composer of the Second Piano Sonata (“Concord”) and Three Places in New England

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Charles Ives

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Charles Ives work with movements named after Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau

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Second Piano Sonata (“Concord”)

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Composer whose father George was a local Connecticut businessman and bandleader

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Charles Ives

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Composer whose Third Symphony won a Pullitzer Prize in 1947

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Charles Ives

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Composer whose General William Booth Enters into Heaven was based on a Vachel Lindsay poem

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Charles Ives

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