Statistics for Greatest classical music composers

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Composer's living years and nationality	Answer	% Correct
1756-1791, Austrian	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	96%
1685-1750, German	Johann Sebastian Bach	95%
1770-1827, German	Ludvig van Beethoven	92%
1810-1849, Polish	Frederic Chopin	89%
1678-1741, Italian	Antonio Vivaldi	86%
1862-1918, French	Claude Debussy	85%
1840-1893, Russian	Pjotr Tchaikovsky	85%
1811-1886, Hungarian	Franz Liszt	82%
1685-1759, German	George Frideric Handel	81%
1833-1897, German	Johannes Brahms	81%
1732-1809, Austrian	Joseph Haydn	81%
1797-1828, Austrian	Franz Schubert	80%
1810-1856, German	Robert Schumann	80%
1813-1901, Italian	Giuseppe Verdi	76%
1882-1971, Russian	Igor Stravinsky	76%
1813-1883, German	Richard Wagner	76%
1843-1907, Norwegian	Edvard Grieg	75%
1875-1937, French	Maurice Ravel	75%
1841-1904, Czechian	Antonín Dvořák	73%
1865-1957, Finnish	Jean Sibelius	72%
1873-1943, Russian	Sergei Rachmaninoff	72%
1804-1849, Austrian	Johann Strauss I	71%
1825-1899, Austrian	Johann Strauss II	71%
1864-1949, German	Richard Strauss	71%
1906-1975, Russian	Dmitri Šostakovitš	69%
1809-1847, German	Felix Mendelssohn	69%
1891-1953, Russian	Sergei Prokofiev	67%
1858-1924, Italian	Giacomo Puccini	65%
1860-1911, Austrian	Gustav Mahler	63%
1844-1908, Russian	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	60%
1857-1934, English	Edvard Elgar	58%
1792-1868, Italian	Gioachino Rossini	58%
1881-1945, Hungarian	Béla Bartók	54%
1835-1921, French	Camille Saint-Saëns	54%
1872-1958, British	Ralph Vaughan Williams	54%
1898-1937, American	George Gershwin	52%
1874-1934, English	Gustav Holst	51%
1900-1990, American	Aaron Copland	50%
1803-1869, French	Hector Berlioz	50%
1839-1881, Russian	Modest Mussorgsky	50%
1782-1840, Italian	Niccolò Paganini	50%
1567-1643, Italian	Claudio Monteverdi	49%
1838-1875, French	Georges Bizet	48%
1913-1976, English	Benjamin Britten	46%
1866-1925, French	Erik Satie	46%
1845-1924, French	Gabriel Fauré	45%
1659-1695, English	Henry Purcell	44%
1681-1767, German	Georg Philipp Telemann	42%
1874-1951, Austrian	Arnold Schoenberg	41%
1932-, American	John Williams	40%
1918-1990, American	Leonard Bernstein	40%
1824-1884, Czechian	Bedřich Smetana	39%
1819-1880, French (German-born)	Jacques Offenbach	39%
1653-1706, German	Johann Pachelbel	39%
1910-1981, American	Samuel Barber	39%
1685-1757, Italian	Domenico Scarlatti	38%
1824-1896, Austrian	Anton Bruckner	37%
1874-1954, American	Charles Ives	35%
1903-1978, Armenian	Aram Khachaturian	34%
1833-1887, Russian	Alexander Borodin	33%
1937-, American	Philip Glass	32%
1872-1915, Russian	Alexander Scriabin	30%
1653-1713, Italian	Arcangelo Corelli	30%
1935-, Estonian	Arvo Pärt	30%
1683-1764, French	Jean-Philippe Rameau	30%
1912-1992, American	John Cage	30%
1822-1890, Belgian	César Franck	28%
1804-1857, Russian	Mikhail Glinka	28%
1899-1963, French	Francis Poulenc	26%
1632-1687, French	Jean-Baptiste Lully	25%
1525-1594, Italian	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	23%
1797-1848, Italian	Gaetano Donizetti	22%
1543-1623, English	William Byrd	21%
1842-1912, French	Jules Massenet	19%
1671-1751, Italian	Tomaso Albinoni	19%
1818-1893, French	Charles Gounod	17%
1098-1179, German	Hildegard of Bingen	17%
1908-1992, French	Olivier Messiaen	15%
1862-1934, English	Frederick Delius	14%
1936-, American	Steve Reich	13%
1933-2020, Polish	Krzysztof Penderecki	12%
1637-1707, German	Dietrich Buxtehude	11%
1300-1377, French	Guillaume de Machaut	11%
1923-2006, Hungarian-Austrian	György Ligeti	11%
1904-1987, Russian	Dmitri Kabalevsky	10%
1710-1736, Italian	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	10%
1928-2007, German	Karlheinz Stockhausen	10%
1882-1967, Hungarian	Zoltán Kodály	10%
1928-2016, Finnish	Einojuhani Rautavaara	9%
1882-1961, Australian	Percy Grainger	9%
1160-1230, French	Pérotin	9%
1791-1857, Austrian	Carl Czerny	8%
1397-1474, Dutch	Guillaume Dufay	8%
1585-1672, German	Heinrich Schütz	7%
995-1050, Italian	Guido of Arezzo	6%
1582-1652, Italian	Gregorio Allegri	5%
1390-1453, English	John Dunstable	5%
1291-1361, French	Philippe de Vitry	4%
1854-1925, German	Moritz Moszkowski	3%
1892-1988, English	Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji	0%