Music Composers

Question 1

American, 19th century;
Camptown Races

Answer 1

Stephen Foster

Question 2

American, 19th century;
The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag

Answer 2

Scott Joplin

Question 3

American, 19th century;
Stars and Stripes

Answer 3

John Phillip Sousa

Question 4

American, 19th century;
Pirates of Penzance, Mikado

Answer 4

Gilbert and Sullivan

Question 5

American 20th century;
Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue

Answer 5

George Gershwin

Question 6

American 20th century;
King and I, Sound of Music, S. Pacific, Ok, Showboat

Answer 6

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Question 7

American 20th century;
West Side Story

Answer 7

Leonard Bernstein

Question 8

American 20th century;
Billy the Kid

Answer 8

Aaron Copland

Question 9

American 20th century;
Moonlight Serenade, “Big Band Music”

Answer 9

Glen Miller

Question 10

American 20th century;
Lyrics to West Side Story

Answer 10

Stephen Soundheim

Question 11

American 20th century;
Cats, Evita, Phantom, JC Superstar, Joseph…

Answer 11

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Question 12

American 20th century;
White Christmas

Answer 12

Irving Berlin

Question 13

Austrian, 18th century;
The Magic Flute, Don Giovani, Marriage of Figarro

Answer 13

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 14

Austrian, 18th century;
Symphony

Answer 14

Franz Josef Haydn

Question 15

Austrian, 19th century;
Waltz, “Blue Danube”, Die Fledermaus

Answer 15

Johann Strauss

Question 16

British, 20th century;
“Pomp and Circumstance”

Answer 16

Seward Elgar

Question 17

British, 20th century;
The Planets

Answer 17

Gustav Holst

Question 18

British, 20th century;
Operas, “Young Person’s Guide”

Answer 18

Benjamin Britten

Question 19

Czech, 30th century;
“Symphony #9 from the New World”

Answer 19

Anton Dvorak

Question 20

Finnish, 19th century;
Finlandia

Answer 20

Jean Sibelius

Question 21

French, 19th century;
Carmen

Answer 21

George’s Bizet

Question 22

French, 19th century;
Nocturnal, The Prodigal Son

Answer 22

Claude Debussy

Question 23

French, 20th century;
Bolero

Answer 23

Maurice Ravel

Question 24

German, 17th century;
Canon in D

Answer 24

Johann Pachelbel

Question 25

German, 17th century;
Art if the Figure, Brandenburg Concertos

Answer 25

J. S. Bach

Question 26

German, 18th century;
Messiah, Water Music, Hallelujah Chorus

Answer 26

G. H. Handel

Question 27

German, 19th century;
Moonlight Sonata, Ode to Joy (#9)

Answer 27

L. Van Beethoven

Question 28

German, 19th century;
German Requiem

Answer 28

Johannes Brahams

Question 29

German, 19th century;
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Answer 29

Felix Mendelssohn

Question 30

German, 19th century;
The Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin, The Ring of the Nibelungen, Valkyrie, Sigfried

Answer 30

Richard Wagner

Question 31

German, 19th century;
Hansel and Gretel

Answer 31

Englebert Humperdinck

Question 32

German, 20th century;
Electra (Opera), Der Rosenkavalier

Answer 32

Richard Strauss

Question 33

Hungarian, 19th century

Answer 33

Franz Liszt

Question 34

Italian, 18th century;
The Four Seasons

Answer 34

Antonio Vivaldi

Question 35

Italian, 18th century;
violins

Answer 35

Stradivarius

Question 36

Italian, 19th century;
La Travis’s, Otello, Don Carlos

Answer 36

Giuseppi Verdi

Question 37

Italian, 19th century;
William Tell (Overture), Barber of Seville

Answer 37

Rossini

Question 38

Italian, 20th century;
La Boheme, Madame Butterfly

Answer 38

Puccini

Question 39

Mexican, 20th century

Answer 39

Carlos Chavez

Question 40

Polish, 19th century;
Piano Sonata

Answer 40

Frederic Chopin

Question 41

Russian, 19th century;
The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty

Answer 41

Peter Tchaikovsky

Question 42

Russian, 20th century;
The Right of Spring

Answer 42

Igor Stravinsky

Question 43

Russian, 20th century;
Peter and the Wolf

Answer 43

Sergey Prokofiev

Question 44

Russian, 20th century;
The Isle of the Dead

Answer 44

Sergey Rachmaninov

Question 45

Spanish, 20th century;
chello

Answer 45

Pablo Casals