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	Hint:	Answer	% Correct
A	Birth country of Haydn and Mozart	Austria	98%
D	French composer of late 19th-early 20th century who challenged traditional "rules" of compositon; his famous piano solo "Clair de Lune" is from a set titled "Suite Bergamasque"	Debussy	88%
C	19th century Romantic composer who wrote almost exclusively for the piano, often referred to as "Poet of the Piano"	Chopin	85%
L	Hungarian Romantic composer who was idolized for his piano virtuosity	Liszt	78%
G	Norway's most famous composer	Grieg	73%
U	Simple 4-string instrument originally developed in Hawaii	Ukulele	73%
E	His composition "Pomp and CIrcumstance" is often played at graduation ceremonies.	Elgar	70%
H	Austrian composer of classic era who lived and worked at the magnificent Esterhazy palace in Hungary for almost 15 years	Haydn	69%
P	Famous violin virtuoso in 19th century Italy	Paganini	69%
X	Percussion instrument with wooden bars as "keys" struck by mallets	Xylophone	69%
F	Sibelius wrote this orchestral composition to celebrate his home country.	Finlandia	67%
J	American composer of ragtime music	Joplin	64%
B	Flamboyant conductor of late Romantic era, composer of "Symphonie Fantastique"	Berlioz	55%
S	Form of composition which consists of Exposition, Development, Recapitulation, and Coda	Sonata form	55%
O	Beethoven's "Fidelio"	Opera	51%
Q	A note which gets one count or pulse in common time	Quarter note	51%
M	German Romantic composer who helped resurrect Bach's music	Mendelssohn	49%
T	Prolific German composer of Baroque era, born 4 years before Bach	Telemann	34%
R	A master orchestrator, composer of "Russian Easter Overture"	Rimsky-Korsakov	30%
I	Composer from New England, 1874-1954, who broke all the "rules" in his imaginative compositions	Ives	27%
N	Danish composer of 6 symphonies	Nielsen	20%
V	20th century Brazilian composer of "Bachianas Brasileiras"	Villa-Lobos	17%
K	20th century Russian composer who wrote many sets of piano pieces for students	Kabalevsky	10%
W	Beethoven composition celebrating Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo	Wellington's Victory	5%
Y	Title of Leonard Bernstein's educational TV series	Young People's Concerts	4%
Z	Chopin was born in this town near Warsaw.	Zelazowa Wola	4%