You Gotta Know - 20th Century Composers

When given the title of a work, give the last name of the composer

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Hint	Answer
Imaginary Landscape No. 4	Cage
Porgy and Bess	Gerschwin
Soviet Russian, lived during the second world war	Shostakovich
The Prodigal's Son	Prokofiev
Appalachian spring	Copland
Second Piano Concerto	Rachmaninoff
Symphony of Psalms	Stravinsky
The Pilgrim's Progress	Vaughan Williams
Student of Schoenberg, considered a Dada Composer, invented prepared piano	Cage
La Valse	Ravel
American, studied under Boulanger	Copland
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini	Rachmaninoff
The Rite of Spring	Stravinsky
4'33"	Cage
Thirteenth Symphony (Babi Yar, condemned antisemitism)	Shostakovich
The Nose	Shostakovich
Russian, worked for Diaghilev and Ballets Russes, died on same day as Stalin	Prokofiev
Student of Faure, died because unsuccessful brain surgery	Ravel
Hugh Drover	Vaughan Williams
Third Symphony - Won Pulitzer Prize	Ives
Sir John in Love - Shakespearean Opera	Vaughan Williams
Influenced by Wagner and Strauss, taught Berg and Webern	Schoenberg
Pravda (criticized by Stalin)	Shostakovich
Petrushka	Stravinsky
Rhapsody in Blue	Gerschwin
Fled Hungary for the US in 1940	Bartok
Pavane for a Dead Princess	Ravel
Billy the Kid	Copland
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge	Britten
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District	Shostakovich
Music for the Theatre	Copland
El' Salon Mexico	Copland
Peter and the Wolf	Prokofiev
Peter Grimes	Britten
First Symphony (Sea)	Vaughan Williams
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra	Britten
Death in Venice	Britten
Studied under Rimsky-Korsakov, worked with Diaghilev and Auden	Stravinsky
The Firebird	Stravinsky
Three Places in New England	Ives
Of Thee I Sing - Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama	Gerschwin
Transfigured Night	Schoenberg
Third Symphony, Contains Fanfare for the Common Man	Copland
Seventh Symphony (Sinfonia Antarctica)	Vaughan Williams

Hint	Answer
The Isle of the Dead - Symphonic Poem	Rachmaninoff
"Rapsodie espagnole"	Ravel
A Survivor from Warsaw	Schoenberg
Agon	Stravinsky
The Miraculous Mandarin	Bartok
Swanee (Song sang by Al Jolson)	Gerschwin
Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra	Gerschwin
Pierrot Lunaire	Schoenberg
From America, studied Music at Yale, found Insurance Sales more lucrative	Ives
War Requiem	Britten
From Austria Originally	Schoenberg
Daphnis et Chloe	Ravel
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (Song)	Ives
Duke Bluebeard's Castle	Bartok
Twelfth Symphony (conciliatory symphony)	Shostakovich
The Lark Ascending - Based on a George Meredith poem	Vaughan Williams
The Wooden Prince	Bartok
Second Symphony (London)	Vaughan Williams
Mikrokosmos	Bartok
Rodeo	Copland
Moved to Los Angeles in 1933 to flee Nazi Persecution	Schoenberg
Fifth Symphony (conciliatory symphony)	Shostakovich
Mother Goose	Ravel
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis	Vaughan Williams
Second Piano (Concord) Sonata - (With movements named from Hawthorne, Waldo Emerson, Alcott, David Thoreau	Ives
Died of Brain Tumor at age 38	Gerschwin
Billy Bud (Opera version)	Britten
Lincoln Portrait	Copland
Twice Turned down the conductorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra	Rachmaninoff
Third Symphony (Pastoral)	Vaughan Williams
Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta	Bartok
Moses and Aron	Schoenberg
Alexander Nevsky	Prokofiev
Known as the UK's opera reviver	Britten
Re-orchestrated "Pictures at an Exhibition"	Ravel
Organ Symphony	Copland
Bolero	Ravel
The Love for Three Oranges	Prokofiev
Classical (first of his seven symphonies)	Prokofiev
The Rake's Progress	Stravinsky
C-Sharp Minor Prelude	Rachmaninoff
Seventh/Leningrad Symphony (conciliatory symphony)	Shostakovich
The Turn of the Screw	Britten
What to Listen For in Music (Book)	Copland

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