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Classical Composers

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Classical composers and what they're known for.

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  1. 1Ludwig van Beethoven's most famous symphony
    Symphony No. 5, also known for Für Elise
  2. 2Beethoven considered as in terms of music eras
    Regarded by many as the first Romantic-era composer
  3. 3What nationality was Ludwig van Beethoven?
    German (1770-1827)
  4. 4Niccolò Paganini
    Virtuoso violinist and composer who wrote the 24 Caprices for Solo Violin
  5. 5Franz Schubert
    More than 600 lieder (songs), chamber music, piano works and symphonies (1797-1828)
  6. 6Gioachino Rossini's most famous opera
    The Barber of Seville
  7. 7Vincenzo Bellini
    Opera composer, known for I Puritani, Norma and La sonnambula
  8. 8Hector Berlioz
    His programmatic symphony, Symphonie Fantastique
  9. 9Felix Mendelssohn
    Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream
  10. 10Frédéric Chopin's specialty
    Virtuoso pianist and composer of nocturnes, ballades, scherzos, etudes, mazurkas, polonaises and waltzes
  11. 11Robert Schumann
    Significant lieder writer, composer of short piano pieces, four symphonies, concerti and chamber music
  12. 12Clara Schumann
    Composer and pianist, wife of Robert Schumann, one of the leading pianists of the Romantic era (1819-1896)
  13. 13Franz Liszt
    Hungarian Rhapsodies, virtuoso pianist, and other solo piano works
  14. 14Richard Wagner's most famous opera cycle
    Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle)
  15. 15Giuseppe Verdi's most famous operas
    Nabucco, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida, Otello and Don Carlos
  16. 16Johannes Brahms
    Four symphonies, Violin Concerto, two piano concertos, and A German Requiem
  17. 17Johann Strauss II's nickname
    The Waltz King
  18. 18Johann Strauss II
    Blue Danube Waltz and his opera Die Fledermaus
  19. 19What nationality was Johann Strauss I?
    Austrian, famous for Radetzky March (1804-1849)
  20. 20Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart's relationship to the famous composer
    Youngest child of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, also a composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
  21. 21Anton Bruckner
    Nine large-scale symphonies (one incomplete) and two more unacknowledged
  22. 22Bedřich Smetana
    Nationalist composer, best known for his cycle of six symphonic poems Má vlast and his opera The Bartered Bride
  23. 23Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's most famous ballets
    The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty
  24. 24What other famous works did Tchaikovsky compose?
    Opera Eugene Onegin, Romeo and Juliet Overture, 1812 Overture, Piano Concerto No. 1, and six symphonies
  25. 25Antonín Dvořák's most famous symphony
    New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9)
  26. 26Georges Bizet
    His final opera, Carmen
  27. 27Gaetano Donizetti's famous operas
    Lucia di Lammermoor and L'elisir d'amore
  28. 28Modest Mussorgsky
    Orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition
  29. 29Russian Five
    A group of nationalist Russian composers including Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Cui, and others
  30. 30Alexander Borodin
    Opera Prince Igor, and was also a chemist, part of the Russian Five

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