Statistics for You Gotta Know - 20th Century Composers

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Appalachian spring	Copland	86%
Porgy and Bess	Gerschwin	86%
4'33"	Cage	57%
Peter and the Wolf	Prokofiev	57%
Soviet Russian, lived during the second world war	Shostakovich	57%
The Firebird	Stravinsky	57%
The Rite of Spring	Stravinsky	57%
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra	Britten	43%
Peter Grimes	Britten	43%
Rodeo	Copland	43%
Rhapsody in Blue	Gerschwin	43%
Second Piano Concerto	Rachmaninoff	43%
Bolero	Ravel	43%
Seventh/Leningrad Symphony (conciliatory symphony)	Shostakovich	43%
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District	Shostakovich	43%
Petrushka	Stravinsky	43%
Fled Hungary for the US in 1940	Bartok	29%
War Requiem	Britten	29%
Known as the UK's opera reviver	Britten	29%
Third Symphony, Contains Fanfare for the Common Man	Copland	29%
Billy the Kid	Copland	29%
Classical (first of his seven symphonies)	Prokofiev	29%
The Isle of the Dead - Symphonic Poem	Rachmaninoff	29%
C-Sharp Minor Prelude	Rachmaninoff	29%
Re-orchestrated "Pictures at an Exhibition"	Ravel	29%
Mother Goose	Ravel	29%
La Valse	Ravel	29%
"Rapsodie espagnole"	Ravel	29%
Daphnis et Chloe	Ravel	29%
Pavane for a Dead Princess	Ravel	29%
Pierrot Lunaire	Schoenberg	29%
Influenced by Wagner and Strauss, taught Berg and Webern	Schoenberg	29%
Transfigured Night	Schoenberg	29%
Twelfth Symphony (conciliatory symphony)	Shostakovich	29%
Pravda (criticized by Stalin)	Shostakovich	29%
Fifth Symphony (conciliatory symphony)	Shostakovich	29%
The Rake's Progress	Stravinsky	29%
Agon	Stravinsky	29%
Symphony of Psalms	Stravinsky	29%
First Symphony (Sea)	Vaughan Williams	29%
The Lark Ascending - Based on a George Meredith poem	Vaughan Williams	29%
The Wooden Prince	Bartok	14%
Duke Bluebeard's Castle	Bartok	14%
Mikrokosmos	Bartok	14%
Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta	Bartok	14%
The Miraculous Mandarin	Bartok	14%
Death in Venice	Britten	14%
The Turn of the Screw	Britten	14%
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge	Britten	14%
Billy Bud (Opera version)	Britten	14%
Imaginary Landscape No. 4	Cage	14%
Student of Schoenberg, considered a Dada Composer, invented prepared piano	Cage	14%
What to Listen For in Music (Book)	Copland	14%
Music for the Theatre	Copland	14%
Lincoln Portrait	Copland	14%
American, studied under Boulanger	Copland	14%
Organ Symphony	Copland	14%
El' Salon Mexico	Copland	14%
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (Song)	Ives	14%
From America, studied Music at Yale, found Insurance Sales more lucrative	Ives	14%
Second Piano (Concord) Sonata - (With movements named from Hawthorne, Waldo Emerson, Alcott, David Thoreau	Ives	14%
Three Places in New England	Ives	14%
Russian, worked for Diaghilev and Ballets Russes, died on same day as Stalin	Prokofiev	14%
The Love for Three Oranges	Prokofiev	14%
Alexander Nevsky	Prokofiev	14%
Twice Turned down the conductorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra	Rachmaninoff	14%
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini	Rachmaninoff	14%
Student of Faure, died because unsuccessful brain surgery	Ravel	14%
From Austria Originally	Schoenberg	14%
Moses and Aron	Schoenberg	14%
Thirteenth Symphony (Babi Yar, condemned antisemitism)	Shostakovich	14%
The Nose	Shostakovich	14%
Studied under Rimsky-Korsakov, worked with Diaghilev and Auden	Stravinsky	14%
Second Symphony (London)	Vaughan Williams	14%
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis	Vaughan Williams	14%
Seventh Symphony (Sinfonia Antarctica)	Vaughan Williams	14%
Third Symphony (Pastoral)	Vaughan Williams	14%
Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra	Gerschwin	0%
Swanee (Song sang by Al Jolson)	Gerschwin	0%
Of Thee I Sing - Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama	Gerschwin	0%
Died of Brain Tumor at age 38	Gerschwin	0%
Third Symphony - Won Pulitzer Prize	Ives	0%
The Prodigal's Son	Prokofiev	0%
Moved to Los Angeles in 1933 to flee Nazi Persecution	Schoenberg	0%
A Survivor from Warsaw	Schoenberg	0%
Hugh Drover	Vaughan Williams	0%
Sir John in Love - Shakespearean Opera	Vaughan Williams	0%
The Pilgrim's Progress	Vaughan Williams	0%