You Gotta Know - 20th Century Composers

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