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Quiz Bowl Composers
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Germany Known for contrapuntal technique, organist Bradenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Germany Close to Clara Schumann--10th symphony like Beethoven Wrote 4 symphonies, Lullaby (Weigenlied), Hungarian Dances | Johannes Brahms |
| Russia Supported by wealthy widow, The 1812 Overture, Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, Eugene Onegin, Pathetique (6) | Peter Tchaikovsky |
| Germany Music teacher of Marie-Antoinette, wrote the opera Orpheus and Eurydice | Cristoph Gluck |
| Germany Nazi leader, but conflicted too much Wrote Also scrach Zarathustra, Salome, Der Rosenkavalier | Richard Strauss |
| USA African-American ragtime composer Maple Leaf Rag, The Entertainer, Treemonisha | Scott Joplin |
| Italy Cleric who worked for girls' orphanage, nicknamed "The Red Priest" Four Seasons (from the Contest Between Harmony and Invention) and Orlando Furioso | Antonio Vivaldi |
| Born German, but French most of his life The Tales of Hoffman, Orpheus in the Underworld--containing The Can-Can--, Robinson Crusoe | Jacques Offenbach |
| Russia The Rake's Progress, the Firebird, the Rite of Spring, Petruschka, Dumbarton Oaks | Igor Stravinsky |
| France The Fair Maid of Perth and The Pearl Fishers. His best known opera is Carmen, which is based on a play by Merimee. He also wrote the minor opera L'Arlesienne. | Georges Bizet |
| Poland Friends with George Sand, wrote mazurkas, preludes, etudes, and polonaises Wrote Raindrop Prelude, Revolutionary Etude | Frederic Chopin |
| France Bolero, Lavalse Wrote a piano concerto for left hand only | Maurice Ravel |
| Italy Prolific--Turandot, Madame Butterfly, Tosca, La Boheme | Giacomo Puccini |
| Norway Peer Gynt (Morning Mood, In the Hall of the Mountain King), Holberg Suite, Lyric Pieces | Edvard Grieg |
| Austria Wrote more than 600 art songs, called lieder, famous for Symphony #8, The Unfinished, along with Symphonies 7/9 and 10, The Great and The Last | Franz Schubert |
| Austria The Younger, "Waltz King" known for Blue Danube Waltz and operetta, Die Fledermaus | Johann Strauss |
| Germany Student of Haydn, went deaf, wrote Fur Elise, Ode to Joy-Chorale, Fidelio, Emperor Concerto, 9 Symphonies | Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| Italy Romantic operatic composer--Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida, Falsaff, Il Trovatore, "La Donna E Mobile" from R- | Giuseppe Verdi |
| France Musical equivalent of "Impressionism," though often tied to "Symbolism" because of his Symbolist poet friends | Claude Debussy |
| Germany Married the daughter of Franz Liszt The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin (Wedding March), Siegfrid, Parcifal, the Ring Cycle | Richard Wagner |
| USA Known as the "March King," bandmaster for the Marine Corps Band Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis, Washington Post March, operetta El Capitan | John Phillip Sousa |
| Germany Baroque composer who wrote Canon in D | Johann Pachelbel |
| Italy Cinderella, The Barber of Seville, and the William Tell Overture | Gioachino Rossini |
| Austria Famous symphonies: Paris, Prague, Jupiter--31, 38, and 41 Famous operas: Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute | Wolfgang Mozart |
| Hungary Student of Salieri, wildly popular in 1840s Hungarian Rhpasodies, Les Preludes, Totentanz, Mephisto | Franz Liszt |
| Bohemia/Czechoslovakia Best known for From the New World, also wrote Slavonic Dances, Moravian Duets, Stabat Mater, and the opera Rusalka | Antonin Dvorak |
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