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Yet More Classical Composers

A follow-up to the Classical Composers and More Classical Composers quizzes. Who wrote these classical works?
Operas are in italics
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Last updated: September 7, 2022
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First submittedJune 10, 2015
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work
composer
Gymnopédies
Erik Satie
Hebrides Overture
Felix Mendelssohn
Faust
Charles Gounod
Blue Danube Waltz
Johann Strauss
Symphony No 8 (Unfinished)
Franz Schubert
Symphony No 5: A Soviet
artist's creative response
to just criticism
Dmitri Shostakovich
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
John Adams
15 Hungarian Peasant Songs
Béla Bartók
Symphonie fantastique
Hector Berlioz
Carmen
Georges Bizet
work
composer
The Tales of Hoffmann
Jacques Offenbach
Pavane; Requiem
Gabriel Fauré
Spiegel im Spiegel; Fratres
Arvo Pärt
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Johannes Brahms
Lucia di Lammermoor
Gaetano Donizetti
Enigma Variations
Edward Elgar
The Three-Cornered Hat
Manuel de Falla
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
Oklahoma!
Richard Rodgers
Aïda
Giuseppe Verdi
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Level 76
Sep 7, 2022
Pictured: Erik Satie
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Level 63
Jun 10, 2015
Am enjoying this series!
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Level 76
Jun 10, 2015
:) A shout out to you (unless you're Mr 100% here), and anyone else who doesn't recognise some of the titles, to dive into youtube and sample them. Heard the Adams piece at a concert and it was pretty cool.
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Level 83
Jun 18, 2015
Can Rodgers really be counted as a classical composer? I know operetta is a bit like musical theatre, but...
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Level 82
Jul 18, 2016
Rogers is no more a classical composer than "Oklahoma!" is an operetta.
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Level 76
Jul 19, 2016
Oi! Being a classical buff doesn't require you to be a snob as well...
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Level 45
Mar 4, 2016
I knew who wrote Short Ride in a Fast Machine but just couldn't remember. :-(
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Level 50
Dec 18, 2023
looking at that question i thought "it must be some modern dude like cage or adams" and lo and behold
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Level 86
Jun 17, 2016
Mahler is an odd omission from these three quizzes.
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Level 72
Mar 6, 2018
I reall hate those Russian names, somehow in English they are always written completely different than in Dutch.