Round 1

What came first?

100

Beethoven or Brahms

Beethoven

200

Schubert or Chopin

Schubert

300

Stravinsky's Petroushka or Pulcinella

Petroushka

400

Schumann’s Lieder year or Schumann’s symphony year

Schumann’s Lieder year

500

Arvo Pärt’s birth or Schönberg’s death

Arvo Pärt’s birth

Name That Composer

100

My 9 Symphonies helped to usher in the Romantic Era

Beethoven

200

I invented atonal and serial techniques.

Arnold Schönberg

300

I was a child prodigy not only in music, but in art, language, and literature.

Felix Mendelssohn

400

I became the youngest ever recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in music in 2013.

Caroline Shaw

500

I wrote great symphonies, but only in the summertime.

Gustav Mahler

One of These Things

100

Beethoven, Brahms, Beach, Britten, Berlioz

Beach (Only Woman)

200

Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin

Stravinsky (Not in “The Five”)

300

Wagner, Liszt, Wolf, Bruckner, Brahms

Brahms (Not In New German School)

400

Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Schönberg, Rachmaninov, Weill

Shostakovich (Never fled to US)

500

Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, Copland, Bernstein, Mahler

Mahler (Never wrote film music)