QUIZBOWL STUDY - Composers & Their Works

Bach

Glenn Gould popularized a set of 30 variations by this German composer who also wrote six suites for solo cello. The Goldberg Variations are by this baroque composer of The Well-Tempered Clavier and and Brandenburg Concertos. For 10 points-name this Baroque composer of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Goldberg Variations.

Beethoven

One composer is known for an overture to Egmont and the Moonlight Sonata. Name this German whose Fifth Symphony is known for its opening four-note motif; Ninth Symphony
"Choral" know for setting of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy; and Third Symphony "Eroica" which was originally dedicated to Napoleon.

Beethoven

The Archduke Trio is a chamber work by this composer whose only oratorio was Christ on the Mount of
Olives. He wrote five piano concertos and 32 piano sonatas, including the (*) Moonlight Sonata. For 10
points-name this German who set the poem "Ode to Joy" in his choral Ninth Symphony.

Hector Berlioz

This French composer's works include "Symphony Fantastique", showing his passion for English actress, Harriet Smithson, and "Harold in Italy".

Leonard Bernstein

What composer, and longtime conductor of the New York Philharmonic whose three symphonies include The Age of Anxiety and Kaddish , wrote the music for On the Town, Candide, and West Side Story?

Georges Bizet

A serenade from this composer's Don Procopio was recycled for Henry Smith in his The Fair Maid of Perth. Another of his works features a love triangle between Nadir, Zurga, and Leila in The Pearl Fishers. This also wrote an opera in which the deaths of the title character and her lover, Don Jose, are predicted by a pair of gypsies. For 10 points-name this French composer of Carmen.

Johannes Brahms

This composer used an A-E-F motif in his Double Concerto for violin and cello. He also composed a , Academic Festival Overture, written for acceptance of honorary degree from University of Breslau and a set of orchestral dances based on folk melodies. Hans von Bulow called this man's First Symphony "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points-name this German composer, with a namesake lullaby, of the Hungarian Dances and A German Requiem.

Frederic Chopin

This polish composer's works include four Brilliant Grand Waltzes and the posthumously published FantaisieImpromptu . This inventor of the ballade form wrote 27 piano etudes, including the Revolutionary Etude. For 10 points-name this Polish-born composer known for his 16 piano polonaises, mazurkas and the "Minute Waltz."

Aaron Copland

This American composer's studies in Paris influenced him to write distinctly "American" music, such as Billy the Kid and Lincoln Portrait. Which composer of El Salon Mexico wrote the tune "Simple Gifts" in Appalachian Spring?

Claude Debussy

What French composer's piano works include the Children's Corner Suite and the Suite Bergamasque. Stéphane Mallarmé's poem inspired this composer to write his Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun". Name this composer, who wrote La Mer, and whose third movement is "Clair de lune"?

Edward Elgar

This composer used a German ballad as the basis of his cantata "The Black Knight". A "hidden theme" connects his Enigma Variations, while "Land of Hope and Glory" is part of a work often played at graduations. For 10 points-name this British composer of the Pomp and Circumstance marches.

Stephen Foster

According to the Grove Dictionary, this American composer of "Oh! Susanna" was the first American to make a living solely
as a composer of music. Their other works include, "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair", "Beautiful Dreamer", "Camptown Races", and "The Old Folks at Home".

George Gershwin

This composer's works include "Short Story," a duet for piano and violin, and the one-act opera Blue Monday. After a trip to Havana, he wrote Rumba, which is now known as his Cuban Overture. He also wrote an opera in which Clara sings "Summertime" on Catfish Row. He also composed a Piano Concerto in F, as well as used a taxicab horn in his, "An American in Paris". For 10 points-name this American composer of Porgy and Bess, An American in Paris, and Rhapsody in Blue.

Edvard Grieg

What norwegian composer of music for Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play of the same name, included "Morning Mood" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" in Peer Gynt?

George Frederic Handel

This composer wrote The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, a concerto for organ in F major, and the keyboard work "The Harmonious Blacksmith". He also wrote Music for the Royal Fireworks, and a set of three suites for a performance on the Thames. For 10 points-name this German-born Baroque composer of Water Music who wrote the "Hallelujah" Chorus in Messiah.

Franz Josef Haydn

This Austrian composer, known as "The King of Symphonies", composed the Farewell Symphony, Sun Quartets,
The London Symphonies, and The Creation. Name this composer, who famously wrote the Surprise Symphony.

Gustav Holst

This British composer depicted "the Mystic" and the Bringing of War, Jollity, and Peace into his 7 movement musical depiction of celestial bodies. For ten points, Name this composer of "The Planets".

Scott Joplin

This American composer's "Great Crush Collision March" was inspired by a train wreck. He also wrote an opera, "Treemonisha" where the name -sake lead tries to drive out charlatans after Zodzetrick almost dupes her mother. Name that "King of Ragtime", for his "Maple Leaf Rag" who also wrote "The Entertainer."

Ruggero Leoncavallo

This composer's most frequently performed work is his one-act Pagliacci, in which a clown
reacts murderously to the unfaithfulness of his wife.

Franz Liszt

This composer's Mountain Symphony is the first of his 13 symphonic poems, a term he is credited with
inventing. He transcribed Beethoven's symphonies for piano, and his own piano works include the "Mephisto
Waltz." For 10 points—name this composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies.

Gustav Mahler

What Austrian composer wrote the Symphony of a Thousand and the Resurrection Symphony (last movement based on a poem by Klopstock)?

Felix Mendelssohn

Elijah is an oratorio by which German composer who wrote the Hebrides (Fingal's cave) Overture, and, at age 17, an overture for A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Claudio Monteverdi

This originator of the operatic recitative was a music director at Venice's St. Mark's Basilica. His last two works were the operas, The Return of Ulysses and The Coronation of Poppea. For 10 points—name this Italian composer of the oldest opera still performed, Orfeo.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

This composer wrote symphonies known by the nicknames "Linz" and "Prague." His other works include A Little Night Music (Eine kleine Nachtmusik), Jupiter Symphony, Requiem Mass, and Prague Symphony. Name this Austrian composer who wrote The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflute), Abduction from the Seragilo, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, and The Marriage of Figarro.

Sergei Prokofiev

This man wrote "The Battle on the Ice" for his film score for Alexander Nevsky. This composer wrote ballets for the classics Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet. For 10 points—name this Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf.

Giacomo Puccini

The two most frequently performed operas in the U.S., Madame Butterfly and La Boheme, were composed by the same man. Name that Italian composer.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

This composer's Opus 29 was inspired by an Arnold Bocklin painting depicting a rowboat on the River Styx, The Isle of the Dead. Another of his works has 24 variations on a violin caprice. For 10 points-name this 20th-century Russian composer of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Maurice Ravel

What composer of songs for a film version of Don Quixote, is better known for his one-act opera The Spanish Hour and the gradually crescendoing Bolero?

Ottorino Respighi

This Italian composer represented the Triton Fountain in the morning in the second movement of his Fountains of Rome.

Richard Rodgers

This composer and Oscar Hammerstein wrote the music to several musicals together. These include Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific, Showboat. Oklahoma and the Sound of Music are the most famous musicals this composer wrote the scores to.

Gioacchino Rossini

This composer wrote an opera that ends with the title character asking for mercy for Magnifico and his daughters, La Cenerentola [lah CHEH-nay-REN-toh-Iah]. In another work, the title character sings he is "like
a thunderbolt" in the aria "Largo al factotum" [LAR-ghoh al fahk-TOH-toom], while in a third, the title character must shoot an apple off his son's head. For 10 points-name this Italian composer of The Barber of
Seville and William Tell.

Camille Saint-Saens

What composer of an 1896 Egyptian Piano Concerto, his fifth, also wrote an Organ Symphony, the Danse Macabre and The Carnival of the Animals?

Franz Schubert

This composer wrote two quintets, one for strings only, and one for piano and string quartet called the trout quintet. Name that Viennese composer of hundreds of art songs, and his Unfinished Symphony.

Robert Schumann

Persian and Islamic mythology inspired an oratorio by this composer titled Paradise and the Peri. He also composed Scenes from Childhood and four symphonies, including the Rhenish and Spring. For 10 points-name this German composer who married Clara Wieck.

John Phillip Sousa

This composer wrote a work named for the Liberty Bell as well as the opera El Capitan. From 1880 to 1892 he conducted the u.S. Marine Band; his namesake instrument is a modified tuba. For 10 points-name this American "March King" who wrote "Stars and Stripes Forever."

Johann Strauss

This composer was known as the waltz king. His works include The Blue Danube Waltz and the score to the opera, Die Fledermaus. Name this composer nicknamed Johann the Younger.

Igor Stravinsky

Symphony of Psalms is from this composer's Neoclassical period. He wrote a work about a living puppet for Sergei Diaghilev while a girl dances herself to death in another ballet whose premier saw a riot. For 10 points-name this Russian composer of Petrushka and The Rite of Spring.

William Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan

Name these English composers who worked together to make, "The Pirates of Penzance", where a band of pirates
swashbuckle amidst ordinary Englishmen in Cornwall, "HMS Pinafore", The Lass That Loved a Sailor, and "The Mikado", where Nanki-Poo is supposed to marry Katisha but loves Yum-Yum, who is supposed to marry Ko-Ko.

Tchaikovsky

The Second Symphony by this composer of the Manfred Symphony is nicknamed "Little Russian." He composed an overture titled for the same year of a war, and a ballet featuring the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy." He also wrote several overtures based on classics like Romeo and Juliet, and the Sleeping Beauty. For 10 points-name this Russian composer of The Nutcracker.

Giuseppe Verdi

A choms from this composer's Nabucco \[nah-BOO-koh\] was sung at his funeral, though he is better known for operas about a Mantuan court jester and the love of Radames for an Ethiopian princess. For 10 points - name this composer of Rigoletto and Aida.

Antonio Vivaldi

This Italian, nicknamed the red priest, wrote a group of 4 violin concertos based on the seasons.

Richard Wagner

In 1832 this man conducted his own Symphony in C major, the year before his first opera, The Fairies, premiered. He collaborated on Rienzi with Giacomo Meyerbeer, whom he later attacked in his writings. In his later operas he developed the concept of associating ideas or characters with particular musical phrases called leitmotivs . For 10 points—name this German composer of Tristan and Isolde and The Flying Dutchman.

Andrew Lloyd-Webber

The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by this British composer, whose other works include Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Beethoven- Opera (1805)

Fidelio

Beethoven- Sonata (1801)

Moonlight Sonata

Beethoven- Symphony (1804)

Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"

Beethoven- Symphony (1808)

Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"

Beethoven- Symphony (1823)

Symphony No. 9 "Choral"

Berlioz- Symphony (1830)

Symphonie fantastique

Bernstein- Musical (1957)

West Side Story

Bizet-Opera (1845)

Carmen

Brahms- Sacred Choral Work (1868)

A German Requiem

Copland- Ballet (1944)

Appalachian Spring

Dvorák- Symphony (1893)

Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

Elgar- Composition (1899)

Enigma Variations

Gerswhin- Composition (1924)

Rhapsody in Blue

Gerswhin- Opera (1935)

Porgy and Bess

Handel- Oratorio (1741)

Messiah

Haydn- Symphony (1791)

Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

Holst- Suite (1918)

The Planets

Llyod Webber- Musical (1910)

The Phantom of the Opera

Llyod Webber- Musical (1982)

Cats

Loewe- Musical (1956)

My Fair Lady

Mahler- Symphony (1909)

The Song of the Earth

Mozart- Opera (1784)

The Marriage of Figaro

Mozart- Opera (1787)

Don Giovanni

Mozart- Opera (1791)

The Magic Flute

Mozart- Symphony (1788)

Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"

Mussorgsky- Composition (1874)

Pictures at an Exhibition

Mussorgsky- Opera (1869)

Boris Gundunov

Prokofiev- Composition (1936)

Peter and the Wolf

Puccini- Opera (1896)

La Bohéme

Puccini- Opera (1900)

Tosca

Puccini- Opera (1904)

Madama Butterfly

Puccini- Opera (1924)

Turnadot

Ravel- Composition (1928)

Boléro

Rossini- Opera (1804)

William Tell

Rossini- Opera (1816)

The Barber of Seville

Strauss- Opera (1905)

Salome

Stravinsky- Ballet (1913)

The Rite of Spring

Sullivan and Gilbert- Musical (1885)

The Mikado

Tchaikovsky- Ballet (1877)

Swan Lake

Tchaikovsky- Ballet (1892)

The Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky- Symphony (1893)

Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"

Vedri- Opera (1893)

Falstaff

Verdi- Opera (1851)

Rigoletto

Verdi- Opera (1853)

La Traviata

Verdi- Opera (1871)

Aida

Vilvadi- Concerto (1725)

The Four Seasons

Wagner- Opera (1843)

The Flying Dutchman

Wagner- Opera (1850)

Lohengrin

Wagner- Opera (1876)

Siegfried

Wagner- Opera (1876)

The Ring of Nibelung

4'33

John Cage

1812 Overture

Tchaikovsky

A German Requiem

Johannes Brahms

Academic Festival Overture

Johannes Brahms

Adagio for Strings

Samuel Barber

Aida

Giuseppe Verdi