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Lifetime	Nationality	Two Main Compositions	Composers	% Correct
1756-1791	Austrian	The Marriage of Figaro Overture Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	97%
1685-1750	German	The Brandenburg Concertos The Well-Tempered Clavier	Johann Sebastian Bach	95%
1770-1827	German	Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathétique" Piano Sonata No. 23 "Appassionata"	Ludwig van Beethoven	93%
1813-1883	German	The Ring Of The Nibelung Die Walküre	Richard Wagner	85%
1810-1849	Polish	Marche Funèbre, Op. 72 No. 2 Étude Op. 25 No. 1 "Aeolian Harp"	Frédéric Chopin	79%
1840-1893	Russian	The Seasons: June Swan Lake: Spanish Dance	Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	79%
1833-1897	German	Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1	Johannes Brahms	75%
1811-1886	Hungarian	Mephisto Waltz No. 1 Liebestraum No. 3	Franz Liszt	74%
1882-1971	Russian	The Rite of Spring Oedipus Rex	Igor Stravinsky	70%
1678-1741	Italian	Gloria, RV589 L’Estro Armónico	Antonio Vivaldi	69%
1797-1828	Austrian	Ständchen, D. 889 "Serenade" Erlkönig	Franz Schubert	69%
1685-1759	German-British	Water Music Music for the Royal Fireworks	George Frideric Handel	69%
1813-1901	Italian	La Traviata: Libiamo ne' lieti calici Rigoletto: La donna è mobile	Giuseppe Verdi	69%
1841-1904	Czech	Humoresque No. 7 Slavonic Dances	Antonín Dvořák	67%
1732-1809	Austrian	Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major The Creation	Joseph Haydn	66%
1862-1918	French	La cathédrale engloutie Arabesque No. 1	Claude Debussy	64%
1865-1957	Finnish	Finlandia, Op. 26 The Maiden in the Tower, JS 101	Jean Sibelius	64%
1864-1949	German	Also Sprach Zarathustra Salome, Op. 54	Richard Strauss	62%
1858-1924	Italian	Tosca: Vissi d'arte Madama Butterfly: Un bel dì, vedremo	Giacomo Puccini	59%
1891-1953	Russian	Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64	Sergei Prokofiev	59%
1810-1856	German	Kinderszenen Fantasie in C	Robert Schumann	57%
1835-1921	French	Le Carnaval des animaux: Le cygne Samson and Delilah, Op. 47	Camille Saint-Saëns	54%
1898-1937	American	Rhapsody in Blue I Got Rhythm	George Gershwin	54%
1875-1937	French	Pavane pour une infante défunte Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55	Maurice Ravel	54%
1843-1907	Norwegian	Peer Gynt: Morning Mood Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song	Edvard Grieg	52%
1809-1847	German	A Midsummer Night's Dream Elijah, Op. 70	Felix Mendelssohn	52%
1838-1875	French	L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2: Farandole Carmen: Votre Toast	Georges Bizet	52%
1792-1868	Italian	L'italiana in Algeri Guglielmo Tell	Giacomo Rossini	52%
1881-1945	Hungarian	Duke Bluebeard's Castle The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19	Béla Bartók	51%
1906-1975	Russian-Soviet	The Gadfly Suite Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29	Dmitri Shostakovich	49%
1857-1934	British	Salut d'Amour, Op. 12 Enigma Variations, Op. 36	Edward Elgar	49%
1839-1881	Russian	Boris Godunov Great Gate of Kyiv	Modest Mussorgsky	49%
1873-1943	Russian-Soviet	14 Romaces, Op. 34 Six moments musicaux, D. 780	Sergei Rachmaninoff	49%
1913-1976	British	War Requiem, Op. 66 The Prince of the Pagodas	Benjamin Britten	48%
1874-1934	British	The Planets, Op. 32: Mars The Wandering Scholar, Op. 50	Gustav Holst	48%
1860-1911	Bohemian	Das Lied Von Der Erde Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"	Gustav Mahler	48%
1912-1992	American	4'33'' In a Landscape	John Cage	46%
1844-1908	Russian	Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34 Scheherazade, Op. 35	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	44%
1900-1990	American	Appalachian Spring Fanfare for the Common Man	Aaron Copland	41%
1824-1884	Czech	Má vlast, JB. 1:112 Prodaná nevěsta, JB. 1:100	Bedrick Smetana	41%
1567-1643	Italian	L'Orfeo, SV 318 Vespero della Beata Vergine, SV 206	Claudio Monteverdi	38%
1866-1925	French	Trois Gnossiennes Trois morceaux en forme de poire	Erik Satie	36%
1854-1928	Czech	The Cunning Little Vixen Káťa Kabanová	Leos Janácek	36%
1845-1924	French	Après un rêve, Op. 7 No.1 Sicilienne, Op. 78	Gabriel Fauré	34%
1803-1869	French	Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts) Les nuits d'été, Op. 7	Hector Berlioz	34%
1910-1981	American	Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 Violin Concerto, Op. 14	Samuel Barber	34%
1833-1887	Russian	Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances In the Steppes of Central Asia	Alexander Borodin	33%
1885-1935	Austrian	Wozzeck Kammerkonzert	Alban Berg	31%
1685-1757	Italian	Keyboard Sonatas, K.1-555 Stabat Mater	Domenico Scarlatti	31%
1659-1695	English	Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 The Fairy-Queen, Z. 629	Henry Purcell	31%
1872-1958	British	The Pilgrim's Progress The Wasps	Ralph Vaughan Williams	31%
1874-1951	Austrian-American	Moses und Aron Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4	Arnold Schoenberg	30%
1818-1893	French	Faust Messe brève No. 7	Charles Gounod	28%
1637-1707	Danish	Jesu, meines Lebens Leben Membra Jesu Nostri	Dietrich Buxtehude	28%
1842-1912	French	Thaïs: Méditation Manon	Jules Massenet	28%
1872-1915	Russian	The Poem of Ecstasy Piano Concerto in F-sharp Minor	Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin	26%
1653-1713	Italian	12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 Christmas Concerto, Op. 6 No. 8	Archangelo Corelli	26%
1786-1826	German	Der Freischütz Euryanthe, J. 291	Carl Maria von Weber	26%
1797-1848	Italian	L'elisir d'amore Don Pasquale	Gaetano Donizetti	26%
1681-1767	German	Tafelmusik Trumpet Concerto, TWV. 51:D7	Georg Philipp Telemann	26%
1876-1946	Spanish	Noches en los jardines de España El amor brujo	Manuel de Falla	26%
1879-1936	Italian	Pini di Roma, P. 141 Feste romane	Ottorino Respighi	26%
1865-1931	Danish	Symphony No. 4, Op.27 FS. 60 Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57	Carl Nielsen	25%
1874-1954	American	The Unanswered Question Three Places in New England	Charles Ives	25%
1714-1787	Bohemian	Orfeo ed Euridice Iphigénie en Tauride	Christoph Willibald Gluck	25%
1899-1963	French	Trois mouvements perpétuels Dialogues des Carmélites, FP. 159	Francis Poulenc	25%
1525-1594	Italian	Missa Papae Marcelli Ave Regina Caelorum	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	25%
1632-1687	Italian-French	Armide, LWV. 71 Benedictus Dominus, LWV. 64/2	Jean-Baptiste Lully	25%
1908-1992	French	Quatuor pour la fin du temps Des Canyons aux étoiles	Olivier Messiaen	25%
1801-1835	Italian	Norma: Casta Diva Il pirata	Vincenzo Bellini	25%
1824-1896	Austrian	Symphony No. 8 in C minor Masses Nos. 1-3	Anton Bruckner	23%
1804-1857	Russian	Ruslan and Lyudmila A Life for the Tsar	Mikhail Glinka	23%
1865-1936	Russian	Symphony No. 5 "Heroic" Symphony No. 3 "Slavyanskaya"	Alexander Glazunov	21%
1822-1890	French	Sonata in A major Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 7	César Franck	21%
1098-1179	German	Ordo Virtutum Symphonia	Hildegard von Bingen	21%
1683-1764	French	Platée La princesse de Navarre	Jean-Philippe Rameau	21%
1895-1963	German	Symphony: Mathis der Maler Ludus Tonalis	Paul Hindemith	21%
1505-1585	English	Spem in alium Lamentations of Jeremiah	Thomas Tallis	21%
1883-1945	Austrian	Passacaglia, Op. 1 Concerto for Nine Instruments	Anton Webern	20%
1825-1899	Austrian	Frühlingsstimmen, Op. 410 Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437	Johann Strauss II	20%
1539-1623	English	Mass for Five Voices: Agnus Dei The Battell, T. 441	William Byrd	20%
1710-1736	Italian	La serva padrona Marian Vespers	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	18%
1791-1864	German	Les Huguenots Robert le diable	Giacomo Meyerbeer	16%
1902-1983	British	Belshazzar's Feast Spitfire Prelude and Fugue	William Walton	16%
1892-1974	French	La Création du monde, Op. 81a Le Bœuf sur le toit, Op. 58	Darius Milhaud	15%
1300-1377	French	Messe de Nostre Dame "Ma fin est mon commencement"	Guillaume de Machaut	15%
1563-1626	English	Lachrimæ, or Seaven Teares The Frog Galliard	John Dowland	15%
1668-1733	French	Leçons de ténèbres Pièces de Clavecin	Francois Couperin	13%
1585-1672	German	Psalmen Davids, SWV 22–47 Cantiones sacræ, Op. 4	Heinrich Schütz	13%
c.1440-1521	French/Franco-Flemish	Missa de Beata Virgine Missa Pange Lingua	Josquin Des Prez	13%
1566-1613	Italian	Madrigals, Book 6 Tenebrae Responsoria	Don Carlo Gesualdo	11%
1554/1557-1612	Italian	Sonata pian' e forte, Ch. 175 Canzon per sonar primi toni à 8	Giovanni Gabrieli	11%
1860-1903	Austrian	Italian Serenade Mörike-Lieder: Im Frühling	Hugo Wolf	11%
1714-1788	German	Solfeggietto, H. 220 Sonata for Solo Flute in A minor	Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	10%
1400-1474	French	Nuper rosarum flores Missa L'homme armé	Guillaume Dufay	10%
(1135)-1201	(French)	Magnus Liber Messe du Jour dë Noel	Léonin	10%
1100s-1200s	(French)	Sederunt Viderunt Omnes	Pérotin	10%
1532-1594	Franco-Flemish	Psalmi Davidis Poenitentiales Lagrime di San Pietro	Roland de Lassus	8%
1549-1611	Spanish	O magnum mysterium Officium Defunctorum	Tomás Luis de Victoria	7%
1583-1625	English	Hosanna to the Son of David The Silver Swan	Orlando Gibbons	5%