See If You Still Remember These Classic Classical Music Masterpieces
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Question 1
Who Composed The Famous Four Seasons Violin Concertos?
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Opens With How Many Famous Notes?
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Which Composer Wrote The Iconic Wedding March?
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What Is The Name Of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata's Key?
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Who Is Known For Writing The Unfinished Symphony?
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Which Composer Created The Nutcracker Ballet Score?
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In What Year Did Mozart Write His Jupiter Symphony?
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Which Composer Wrote Ride Of The Valkyries?
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Debussy's Clair De Lune Was Inspired By Which Type Of Art?
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Who Composed The Hallelujah Chorus From Messiah?
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Who Composed The Famous Canon In D Major?
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Which Composer Wrote The Dramatic William Tell Overture?
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Who Is Known For Writing The Surprise Symphony?
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Which Composer Created The Iconic Bolero Melody?
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In What Year Did Beethoven Complete His Ninth Symphony?
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Who Composed The Habanera From The Opera Carmen?
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Who Is Known For Writing The Air On The G String?
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Which Composer Created The Powerful Carmina Burana Opening?
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Who Composed The Gentle Gymnopedies Piano Pieces?
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Which Composer Wrote The Dreamy Moonlight Sonata Second Movement?
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Who Is Known For Writing The Passionate Hungarian Rhapsody No 2?
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In What Year Did Chopin Compose His Famous Minute Waltz?
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Who Is Known For Writing The Stirring New World Symphony?
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Which Composer Wrote The Iconic Flight Of The Bumblebee?
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Who Composed The Haunting Adagio For Strings?
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Which Composer Created The Thrilling Pictures At An Exhibition?
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Who Is Known For Writing The Dramatic Requiem In D Minor?
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Which Composer Created The Sweeping Piano Concerto No 2 In C Minor?
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Who Is Known For Writing The Fiery Rhapsody In Blue?
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Which Composer Created The Stately Water Music Suite?
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Who Composed The Gentle Nocturne In E-Flat Major Op 9 No 2?
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Which Composer Wrote The Rousing Pomp And Circumstance March?
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Who Composed The Famous Peer Gynt Suite No 1?
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Which Composer Wrote The Elegant Clair De Lune Piano Piece?
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Who Is Known For Writing The Dramatic Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs?
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Who Composed The Beloved Carnival Of The Animals Suite?
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Which Composer Created The Soaring Lark Ascending For Violin?
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Who Composed The Iconic Moonlight Serenade Big Band Theme?
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Which Composer Wrote The Tender Casta Diva Opera Aria?
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Which Composer Created The Dramatic Dies Irae From His Requiem?
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Which Composer Wrote The Soaring Nessun Dorma Tenor Aria?
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Which Composer Wrote The Sweeping Also Sprach Zarathustra Opening?
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Which Composer Created The Fiery Symphonie Fantastique Dream Sequence?
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George Handel
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Arcangelo Corelli
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Antonio Vivaldi
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Johann Bach
Vivaldi wrote all four concertos in 1725 and included sonnets describing each season's imagery.
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Six Notes
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Eight Notes
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Four Notes
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Three Notes
Beethoven called that four-note opening motif his 'fate knocking at the door' according to his secretary.
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Robert Schumann
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Franz Schubert
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Frederic Chopin
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Felix Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn wrote the Wedding March at just 17 years old as part of his Midsummer Night's Dream suite.
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D Minor
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A Minor
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C-Sharp Minor
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B-Flat Major
Beethoven dedicated the Moonlight Sonata in 1801 to his teenage student Countess Giulietta Guicciardi.
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Anton Bruckner
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Franz Schubert
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Franz Liszt
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Johannes Brahms
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony sat hidden in a drawer for over 40 years before anyone heard it performed.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Sergei Prokofiev
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Igor Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky premiered The Nutcracker in Saint Petersburg in 1892 and it was initially panned by critics.
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1795
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1781
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1788
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1802
Mozart composed his Jupiter Symphony in just a few weeks and never heard it performed in a concert hall.
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Richard Wagner
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Richard Strauss
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Carl Maria Von Weber
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Gustav Mahler
Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries is part of his massive four-opera cycle called The Ring of the Nibelung.
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Romantic Poetry
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Impressionist Painting
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Ancient Sculpture
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Gothic Architecture
Debussy was deeply influenced by Monet's paintings and both artists shared a love of light and atmosphere.
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Georg Telemann
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Henry Purcell
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George Handel
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Johann Bach
Handel wrote the entire Messiah oratorio in just 24 days in 1741 and reportedly wept while composing the Hallelujah Chorus.
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Georg Telemann
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Johann Pachelbel
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Arcangelo Corelli
Pachelbel wrote this piece around 1680 and it remained nearly forgotten for almost 300 years before becoming wildly popular.
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Gioachino Rossini
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Vincenzo Bellini
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Gaetano Donizetti
Rossini completed William Tell in 1829 and it became so famous that he jokingly complained people only knew its final galloping section.
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Christoph Gluck
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Joseph Haydn
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Carl Stamitz
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Wolfgang Mozart
Haydn added a sudden loud chord in the slow movement specifically to startle audience members who had dozed off during performances.
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Claude Debussy
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Maurice Ravel
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Camille Saint-Saens
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Gabriel Faure
Ravel described Bolero in 1928 as a piece with absolutely no musical ideas yet it became one of the most performed orchestral works ever written.
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1830
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1824
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1818
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1812
Beethoven was completely deaf when he finished the Ninth Symphony and famously had to be turned around to see the audience applauding at its premiere.
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Jules Massenet
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Hector Berlioz
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Charles Gounod
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Georges Bizet
Bizet actually borrowed the Habanera melody from a Spanish composer named Sebastian Yradier believing it was a traditional folk song.
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Henry Purcell
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Antonio Vivaldi
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George Frideric Handel
The Air On The G String title came from a 19th century violinist who transposed Bach's original orchestral piece so it could be played on one string.
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Kurt Weill
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Paul Hindemith
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Richard Strauss
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Carl Orff
Carl Orff based Carmina Burana on medieval poems found in a 13th century manuscript discovered in a Bavarian monastery in 1803.
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Frederic Chopin
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Erik Satie
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Franz Liszt
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Francis Poulenc
Erik Satie composed the Gymnopedies in 1888 at age 22 and invented an entire genre he called furniture music meant to blend into the background like wallpaper.
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Frederic Chopin
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Franz Schubert
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Robert Schumann
Beethoven never actually named this sonata himself — a critic compared it to moonlight on a lake after his death.
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Johannes Brahms
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Franz Liszt
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Frederic Chopin
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Bela Bartok
Franz Liszt was so electrifying in concert that fainting women and flying gloves became legendary at his performances.
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1832
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1821
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1847
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1859
The word minute in the title actually means small in French — not a reference to playing it in sixty seconds.
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Leos Janacek
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Johannes Brahms
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Antonin Dvorak
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Bedrich Smetana
Dvorak wrote this symphony in New York in 1893 and wove Native American and African American folk melodies into its themes.
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Modest Mussorgsky
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Alexander Borodin
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote this dazzling piece for an opera about a prince who magically transforms into a bumblebee.
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Samuel Barber
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Leonard Bernstein
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Aaron Copland
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George Gershwin
Samuel Barber wrote this at just 26 years old and it was broadcast on radio nationwide when President Roosevelt died in 1945.
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Modest Mussorgsky
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Alexander Borodin
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Mikhail Glinka
Mussorgsky wrote this piece to honor his friend Viktor Hartmann by musically walking through the artist's actual paintings.
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Luigi Cherubini
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Johannes Brahms
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart died before finishing his Requiem and a student named Sussmayr completed it in 1792.
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Franz Liszt
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Frederic Chopin
Rachmaninoff dedicated this 1901 concerto to his hypnotherapist who helped him overcome depression.
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Aaron Copland
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Leonard Bernstein
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George Gershwin
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Samuel Barber
Gershwin composed Rhapsody In Blue in just five weeks after receiving a surprise newspaper announcement about the premiere.
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Arcangelo Corelli
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Henry Purcell
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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George Frideric Handel
King George I requested Water Music for a royal barge party on the Thames River in 1717.
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Robert Schumann
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Frederic Chopin
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Felix Mendelssohn
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Franz Liszt
Chopin wrote 21 nocturnes and was inspired by Irish composer John Field who invented the nocturne form.
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Edward Elgar
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Arthur Sullivan
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Gustav Holst
Elgar composed Pomp And Circumstance in 1901 and it has been played at American graduation ceremonies ever since.
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Franz Liszt
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Edvard Grieg
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Jean Sibelius
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Carl Nielsen
Edvard Grieg wrote Peer Gynt in 1875 as incidental music for a Henrik Ibsen play.
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Claude Debussy
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Maurice Ravel
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Frederic Chopin
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Gabriel Faure
Debussy published Clair De Lune in 1905 as the third movement of his Suite Bergamasque.
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Arvo Part
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Henryk Gorecki
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Alfred Schnittke
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Gorecki's Third Symphony sold over one million copies after a 1992 recording made it famous.
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Georges Bizet
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Charles Gounod
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Hector Berlioz
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Camille Saint-Saens
Saint-Saens refused to publish Carnival Of The Animals during his lifetime fearing it was too silly.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Benjamin Britten
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Edward Elgar
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Frederick Delius
The Lark Ascending has been voted Britain's favorite piece of classical music multiple times.
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Glenn Miller
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Tommy Dorsey
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Benny Goodman
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Duke Ellington
Glenn Miller recorded Moonlight Serenade in 1939 and it became his signature tune instantly.
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Vincenzo Bellini
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Giacomo Puccini
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Gaetano Donizetti
Bellini wrote Casta Diva for his 1831 opera Norma and sopranos still consider it one of the hardest arias to sing.
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Anton Bruckner
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Hector Berlioz
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Johannes Brahms
Verdi's 1874 Requiem is so theatrical and powerful that conductor Hans von Bülow once called it an opera in disguise.
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Giacomo Puccini
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Gioachino Rossini
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Vincenzo Bellini
Nessun Dorma from Puccini's opera Turandot became a global sensation when Pavarotti sang it at the 1990 World Cup.
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Richard Strauss
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Richard Wagner
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Anton Bruckner
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Gustav Mahler
Stanley Kubrick used Richard Strauss's 1896 opening fanfare in 2001: A Space Odyssey making it one of cinema's most iconic moments.
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Franz Liszt
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Camille Saint-Saens
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Hector Berlioz
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Gabriel Faure
Berlioz wrote Symphonie Fantastique in 1830 about his obsession with an actress and it invented the concept of a musical story told by an orchestra.
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