Important Composers and Their Works

These flashcards provide key vocabulary terms related to important composers and their notable works in music history.

Composer of the Leningrad Symphony and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

Dmitri Shostakovich

Known for Pierrot Lunaire and the development of atonality and the twelve-tone system.

Arnold Schoenberg

Composer of Concerto for Orchestra and Mikrokosmos.

Béla Bartók

Famous for Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, and Fanfare for the Common Man.

Aaron Copland

Composer of West Side Story, Candide, and Chichester Psalms.

Leonard Bernstein

Known for Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and Porgy and Bess.

George Gershwin

Composer of Einstein on the Beach and Glassworks.

Philip Glass

Known for 4'33" and Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano.

John Cage

Famous for Clair de lune, La Mer, and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

Claude Debussy

Composer of Boléro, Daphnis et Chloé, and Pavane for a Dead Princess.

Maurice Ravel

Known for The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring.

Igor Stravinsky

Composer of Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet Ballet, and Classical Symphony.

Sergei Prokofiev

Famous for Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and the 1812 Overture.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Known for Nocturnes, Etudes, and Polonaises.

Frédéric Chopin

Composer of German Requiem and Symphonies Nos. 1-4.

Johannes Brahms

Known for The Ring Cycle and Tristan und Isolde.

Richard Wagner

Famous for The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, and Symphony No. 40.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composer of Symphonies No. 5 & 9 and Moonlight Sonata.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Known for The Creation and the Surprise Symphony.

Joseph Haydn

Composer of Hungarian Rhapsodies and Faust Symphony.

Franz Liszt