Composers by Clue

Can you guess these classical composers by a clue about their life or works?

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Hint	Era	Answer
Went deaf later in life	Classical	Ludwig van Beethoven
Had a complicated relationship with Stalin and Soviet Russia.	20th century	Dmitri Shostakovich
Said to have made a deal with the devil to play violin so well.	Romantic	Niccolo Paganini
Now known almost exclusively for his Canon.	Baroque	Johann Pachelbel
At the premiere of this composer's most famous piece, a woman shouted he was mad. He remarked that she understood the piece.	20th century	Maurice Ravel
Came from a musical family; had many children who continued the musical tradition.	Baroque	Johann Sebastian Bach
Second eldest son of the above, wrote music at the transition of the Baroque and Classical eras (type his initials for the answer).	Baroque	Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach
Had synaesthesia, influenced by theosophy and Russian Symbolism.	20th century	Alexander Scriabin
Jewish leader of the Second Viennese School whose works were targeted by the Nazi Party.	20th century	Arnold Schoenberg
Venetian composer famous for his set of four violin concertos.	Baroque	Antonio Vivaldi
Piano virtuoso who wrote many piano transcriptions and arrangements of other composer's works, including the fiendishly difficult Réminiscences de Don Juan.	Romantic	Franz Liszt
Known as Impressionist despite strongly rejecting the term.	20th century	Claude Debussy
Their most famous work is unfinished.	Romantic	Franz Schubert
Nationalist composer who helped develop his country's national identity while it sought independence from Russia.	Romantic	Jean Sibelius
Perhaps the most famous child prodigy of all time.	Classical	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wrote almost exclusively for solo piano, had a high-profile love life including an affair with the French novelist George Sand.	Romantic	Fryderyk Chopin
Supported himself as a taxi driver while starting his compositional career.	20th/21st century	Phillip Glass
Composer who debuted most of her husband's piano works as a performer (Type her first name for the answer).	Romantic	Clara Schumann
Rumoured to have been in love with the above after the above's husband was institutionalised.	Romantic	Johannes Brahms
Hungarian composer who championed folk melodies, wrote a "Concerto for Orchestra".	20th century	Bela Bartok

Level 70

May 27, 2021

Please accept "Shostakovitch" with the mistaken T.

Level 68

May 27, 2021

should be fixed once jetpunk accepts the resubmission :)

Level 86

May 27, 2021

I tried several spellings for Shostakovich, all of them beginning with Sch. Some will say that it's incorrect, but transcription from Cyrillic is arbitrary...

Anyway, my main argument is his famous musical signature, appearing in many of his pieces, and which is DSCH.

Level 49

Aug 16, 2023

Love this. Never seen Frédéric spelt like the way it is in this quiz though.

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