Letter
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Hint
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Answer
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A
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Copland ballet: _________ Spring
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Appalachian
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B
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Composer of "A German Requiem" and four symphonies
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Johannes Brahms
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C
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Female composer of a flute concertino
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Cécile Chaminade
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D
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Mozart opera about a womanizer
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Don Giovanni
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E
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Beethoven overture based on a Goethe play
|
Egmont
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F
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Patriotic suite by Jean Sibelius
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Finlandia
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G
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Polish composer of "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
|
Henryk Górecki
|
H
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Composer of "Water Music" and "Music for the Royal Fireworks"
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George Frideric Handel
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I
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Home country of conductor Zubin Mehta
|
India
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J
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Composer of "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer"
|
Scott Joplin
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K
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Composer of "Gayane", which includes the famous "Sabre Dance"
|
Aram Khachaturian
|
L
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Term for a melodic fragment commonly found in Wagner operas
|
leitmotiv
|
M
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Genre of a J.S. Bach work in B minor
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mass
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N
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Type of piano piece most closely associated with Chopin
|
nocturne
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O
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Primary instrument of Maurice Duruflé and Olivier Messiaen
|
organ
|
P
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Mussorgsky piano suite about Viktor Hartmann's paintings
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Pictures at an Exhibition
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Q
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Tchaikovsky opera based on a Pushkin short story
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Queen of Spades
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R
|
English-language nickname of Mahler's 2nd symphony
|
Resurrection
|
S
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Composer of "Der Erlkönig" and "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel"
|
Franz Schubert
|
T
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Baroque composer famous for his "Tafelmusik"
|
Georg Philipp Telemann
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U
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Nickname of a flute sonata by Reinecke
|
Undine
|
V
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Composer of "Falstaff" and "Otello"
|
Giuseppe Verdi
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W
|
Puccini opera: Girl of the Golden ____
|
West
|
X
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Contemporary Greek composer of "Metastaseis"
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Iannis Xenakis
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Y
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Belgian violinist, composer, and dedicatee of Franck's violin sonata
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Eugène Ysaÿe
|
Z
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Austrian Composer of "The Dwarf" and "Lyric Symphony"
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
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(Hey, it's no fun if there are no challenges or new things to learn.)