Statistics for 50 Greatest Composers

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First Letter of their Last Name	Time Period	Answer	% Correct
B	Baroque	Johann Sebastian Bach	100%
B	Classical/Romantic	Ludwig van Beethoven	100%
W	Romantic	Richard Wagner	90%
M	Classical	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	87%
B	Romantic	Johannes Brahms	70%
T	Romantic	Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky	63%
S	Classical/Romantic	Franz Schubert	60%
C	Romantic	Frederic Chopin	60%
S	Modern	Igor Stravinsky	60%
D	Modern	Claude Debussy	57%
V	Romantic	Giuseppe Verdi	53%
H	Classical	Joseph Haydn	50%
R	Romantic	Sergei Rachmaninoff	50%
S	Romantic/Modern	Richard Strauss	47%
S	Romantic	Robert Schumann	47%
R	Modern	Maurice Ravel	43%
W	Modern	Ralph Vaughan Williams	40%
M	Romantic	Gustav Mahler	37%
S	Romantic	Jean Sibelius	37%
E	Romantic/Modern	Edward Elgar	33%
G	Modern	George Gershwin	30%
S	Modern	Dmitry Shostakovich	27%
S	Romantic/Modern	Erik Satie	27%
B	Modern	Benjamin Britten	23%
M	Renaissance/Baroque	Claudio Monteverdi	20%
P	Modern	Sergei Prokofiev	20%
B	Romantic	Alban Berg	17%
B	Modern	Bela Bartok	17%
G	Modern	Philip Glass	17%
T	Renaissance	Thomas Tallis	17%
W	Modern	Anton Webern	13%
S	Modern	Arnold Schoenberg	13%
L	Modern	Gyorgy Ligeti	13%
C	Modern	John Cage	13%
J	Romantic/Modern	Leos Janáĉek	13%
I	Modern	Charles Ives	10%
B	Modern	Pierre Boulez	10%
R	Modern	Steve Reich	10%
B	Renaissance	William Byrd	10%
S	Modern	Karlheinz Stockhausen	7%
L	Modern	Witold Lutoslawski	7%
G	Renaissance	Carlo Gesualdo	3%
V	Modern	Edgar Varèse	3%
vB	Early Music	Hildegard von Bingen	3%
M	Modern	Olivier Messiaen	3%
S	Modern	Stephen Sondheim	3%
B	Modern	Harrison Birtwistle	0%
S	Modern	Kaija Saariaho	0%
F	Modern	Morton Feldman	0%
K	Modern	Oliver Knussen	0%