This is one of Edward Elgar's most famous compositions and is played at almost every high school and college graduation ceremony
What is "Pomp and Circumstance" March
100
This English composer is most famous for his orchestral suite "The Planets"
Who is Gustav Holst
100
This ballet of Igor Stravinsky caused a riot at it's debut in Paris due to it's pagan themes and very progressive music.
What is "The Rite of Spring"
100
This American composer used folk songs, hymns, spirituals, and even Beethoven's 5th symphony in his music
Who is Charles Ives
100
This American composer's favorite thing to do as a child was to watch the town parade from a church's bell tower and listen to a marching band passing as the next one was coming down the street
Who is Charles Ives
200
The Finnish nationalist composer Jean Sibelius named this symphonic poem for his homeland while it was still under occupation by the Russians
What is "Finlandia"
200
This German composer was a composer/conductor famous for his operas "Elektra," "Der Rosenkavalier," and "Don Juan" and his symphonic poems.
Who is Richard Strauss
200
This nationalist Hungarian composer would collect folk music from the Hungarian country side and incorporate it into his music, especially the rhythmic aspects
Who is Bela Bartok
200
This English composer wrote 9 symphonies, and composed film scores, operas, choral music, and much more
Who is Ralph Vaughan Williams
200
This Serialist composer moved to American and was a professor at several American colleges
Who is Arnold Schoenberg
300
This French composer is famous for his composition "Bolero" and his orchestration of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"
Who is Maurice Ravel
300
Name one of Puccini's operas
What is "Madame Butterfly," "Turandot," "La Boheme," or "Tosca"
300
This Austrian composer is credited as the creator of twelve-tone serialism
Who is Arnold Schoenberg
300
This famous American composer got his start in Tin Pan Alley in New York City, and is famous for his compositions "Rhapsody in Blue," "American in Paris," and his opera/musical "Porgy and Bess
Who is George Gershwin
300
Gustav Mahler used to write many of his compositions at this summer artists retreat
What is Steinbach
400
The Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev is most famous for his symphonic poem based on a Russian folk tale of a boy and his animal friends capturing a wolf (it would later become a Disney cartoon)
What is "Peter and the Wolf"
400
Claude Debussy is the most famous composer in this style of music which, in art, includes paints such as Monet, Renoir, and Degas
What is Impressionism
400
This American composer took American folk stories and music and incorporated it into his ballets "Billy the Kid" and "Appalachian Spring"
Who is Aaron Copland
400
This composer was a student of Schoenberg and switched from a late Romantic to a twelve-tone serialism style after he studied with him
Who is Anton Webern
400
Maurice Ravel rejected this American composer as a student for fear of diminishing the influence of jazz on his compositions
Who is George Gershwin
500
This Russian composer is one of the last Romantic composers and is famous for his piano compositions.
Who is Sergei Rachmaninov
500
This Austrian composer/conductor is most famous for his symphonies and his song cycles, one of which is "Kindertotenlieder"
Who is Gustav Mahler
500
This German composer is most famous for his approach to music education called "Schulwerk"
Who is Carl Orff
500
This Austrian composer studied with Schoenberg and was famous for combining the musical sounds of Romanticism with the twelve-tone theory of Serialism, his most famous opera is "Wozzeck"
Who is Alban Berg
500
This composer condemned the Soviet Union in his native Russian and later became an American citizen