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Famous Composers

Guess the surname of these composers
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Nationality
Dates
Born
Famous work
Answer
English
1505-1585
Dover (?)
Spem In Allium
Thomas Tallis
Italian
1567-1643
Cremona
L'Orfeo (Orpheus)
Claudio Monteverdi
German
1653-1706
Nuremburg
Canon and Gigue for 3 violins
Johann Pachelbel
English
1659-1695
London
Dido & Aeneas
Henry Purcell
Italian
1668-1751
Venice
Adagio in G Minor
Tomaso Albinoni
Italian
1678-1741
Venice
The Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi
German
1681-1767
Magdeburg
Trumpet Concerto in D
Georg Telemann
German
1685-1750
Eisenach
Brandenburg Concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach
German
1685-1759
Halle
Water Music
George Handel
Austrian
1732-1809
Rohrau
The Creation
Joseph Haydn
Italian
1750-1825
Legnago
Tarare
Antonio Salieri
Austrian
1756-1791
Salzburg
The Marriage of Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
German
1770-1827
Bonn
'Moonlight' Piano Sonata No.14
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Italian
1782-1840
Genoa
24 Caprices for Solo Violin
Niccolo Paganini
Italian
1792-1868
Pesaro
William Tell
Gioachino Rossini
Austrian
1797-1828
Vienna
Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished'
Franz Schubert
Italian
1797-1848
Bergamo
Don Pasquale
Gaetano Donizetti
Italian
1801-1835
Catania
Norma
Vincenzo Bellini
French
1803-1869
La Cote-Saint-Andre
Symphonie Fantastique
Hector Berlioz
German
1809-1847
Hamburg
A Midsummer's Night Dream
Felix Mendelssohn
Polish
1810-1849
Zelazowa Wola
Prelude No. 15 'Raindrop'
Frederic Chopin
German
1810-1856
Zwickau
Carnaval
Robert Schumann
Hungarian
1811-1886
Doborjan
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Franz Liszt
Italian
1813-1901
Busseto
Nabucco
Giueseppe Verdi
German
1815-1883
Leipzig
The Ring of the Nibelung
Richard Wagner
French
1819-1880
Cologne
Tales of Hoffman
Jacques Offenbach
Czech
1824-1884
Litomysl
Ma Vlast (My Country)
Bedrich Smetana
Austrian
1824-1896
Linz
Symphony No.8 'Apocalyptic'
Anton Bruckner
Austrian
1825-1899
Vienna
The Blue Danube
Johann Strauss II
Russian
1833-1887
St. Petersburg
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Alexander Borodin
German
1833-1897
Hamburg
Die Mainacht
Johannes Brahms
French
1835-1921
Paris
Carnival of the Animals
Camille Saint-Saens
French
1836-1891
La Fleche
Lakme
Leo Delibes
Russian
1837-1910
Nizhny Novgorod
Islamey
Mily Balakirev
French
1838-1875
Paris
Carmen
Georges Bizet
German
1838-1920
Cologne
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
Max Bruch
Russian
1839-1881
Karevo
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
Russian
1840-1893
Votkinsk
Swan Lake
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Czech
1841-1904
Nelahozeves
Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'
Antonin Dvorak
English
1842-1900
London
Pirates of Penzance
Arthur Sullivan
Norwegian
1843-1907
Bergen
Peer Gynt
Edvard Grieg
Russian
1844-1908
Tikhvin
Scheherezade
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
French
1845-1924
Pamiers
Requiem, Op. 48
Gabriel Faure
Czech
1854-1928
Hukvaldy
The Cunning Little Vixen
Leos Janacek
American
1854-1932
Washington DC
The Liberty Bell
John Philip Sousa
English
1857-1934
Worcester
Pomp and Circumstance
Edward Elgar
Italian
1858-1924
Lucca
Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini
Austrian
1860-1911
Kaliste
Symphony No. 8 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Gustav Mahler
French
1862-1918
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
La Mer
Claude Debussy
English
1862-1934
Bradford
A Mass of Life
Frederick Delius
Italian
1863-1945
Livorno
Cavalleria Rusticana
Pietro Mascagni
German
1864-1949
Munich
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Richard Strauss
Danish
1865-1931
Sortelung
Symphony No. 2 'The Four Temperaments'
Carl Nielsen
French
1865-1935
Paris
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Paul Dukas
Finnish
1865-1957
Hameenlinna
Finlandia
Jean Sibelius
French
1866-1925
Honfleur
Gymnopedies
Erik Satie
Russian
1872-1915
Moscow
The Poem of Ecstacy
Alexander Scriabin
English
1972-1958
Down Ampney
The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Russian
1873-1943
Novgorod
Piano Concerto No. 2
Sergei Rachmaninov
English
1874-1934
Cheltenham
The Planets
Gustav Holst
French
1875-1937
Ciboure
Bolero
Maurice Ravel
Hungarian
1881-1945
Nagyzentmiklos
Bluebeard's Castle
Bela Bartok
Russian
1882-1971
St. Petersburg
The Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky
Russian
1891-1953
Donetsk
Romeo and Juliet
Sergei Prokofiev
German
1895-1982
Munich
Carmina Burana
Carl Orff
American
1898-1937
New York
An American in Paris
George Gershwin
American
1900-1990
New York
Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copland
English
1902-1983
Oldham
Battle of Britain
William Walton
Armenian
1903-1978
Tbilisi
Spartacus
Aram Khachaturian
Russian
1906-1975
St. Petersburg
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Dmitri Shostakovitch
French
1908-1992
Avignon
Turangalila Symphony
Olivier Messiaen
American
1910-1981
West Chester
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber
English
1913-1976
Lowestoft
Peter Grimes
Benjamin Britten
American
1918-1990
Lawrence
West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein
English
1933-2011
York
Goldfinger
John Barry
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