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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
V	Italian composer of a series of famous violin concertos including "Spring"	Antonio Vivaldi	87%
F	Instrument that plays the opening notes in "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"	flute	84%
C	Composer of the "Revolutionary" etude and "Heroic" polonaise	Frédéric Chopin	84%
G	Romantic composer of incidental music to Peer Gynt and the "Holberg Suite"	Edvard Grieg	79%
H	Austrian "father of the string quartet" and "father of the symphony"	Josef Haydn	79%
E	British composer famous for his "Pomp and Circumstance" marches	Edward Elgar	77%
X	Percussion instrument that is featured prominently in Saint-Saens' "Danse macabre"	xylophone	76%
B	Namesake city of six J.S. Bach concerti grossi	Brandenburg	67%
R	Gershwin piece for piano and orchestra played in United Airlines safety videos	Rhapsody in Blue	61%
M	Composer of the "Haffner" and "Jupiter" symphonies	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	60%
O	French composer of "Orpheus in the Underworld"	Jacques Offenbach	51%
U	Quality shared by Schubert's 8th symphony and Bruckner's 9th symphony	unfinished	50%
S	Symphonic suite by Rimsky-Korsakov depicting the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights	Scheherazade	43%
I	Nickname of Mendelssohn's 4th symphony in A major	Italian	40%
J	Czech composer of a famous "Sinfonietta"	Leoš Janáček	36%
L	Wagner opera that contains the famous "Bridal Chorus"	Lohengrin	32%
N	Verdi opera that depicts the exile of Jews to Babylon	Nabucco	31%
A	Impressionist composer of the piano suite "Iberia"	Isaac Albéniz	30%
W	Nickname of a C major Beethoven piano sonata sometimes called "Aurora"	Waldstein	25%
K	Title of many German church musicians, including J.S. Bach	Kappellmeister	24%
D	First title character of a Ravel ballet	Daphnis	21%
P	Polish composer of "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima"	Krzysztof Penderecki	21%
Z	Handel anthem sung at the coronation of every British monach	Zadok the Priest	21%
T	Nickname of Mahler's 6th symphony, which features the three hammer blows of fate	Tragic	14%
Y	Geographical namesake of a piano concerto that premiered during the Cultural Revolution	Yellow River	10%
Q	Stringed Arabic instrument similar to a zither	qanun	4%