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1. Brandenburg Concertos. Composer of The Well-Tempered Clavier.

2. Composed an opera based on an Aleksandr Pushkin poem, Eugene Onegin, and a ballet featuring the 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,' The Nutcracker.

3. The Mastersingers of Nuremberg and The Flying Dutchman are two operas by this German composer. Name this composer who also wrote a series of four operas based on German mythology.

4. Composer of the Emperor Concerto whose Ninth Symphony ends with a setting of the 'Ode to Joy'

5. Turandot was left unfinished by this composer of La Boheme [boh-EM] and Tosca.

6. Despite having very different musical styles, Brahms was a lifelong friend of this composer of the Blue Danube waltz.

7. One composer with this last name wrote the Radetzky [ruh-DET-skee] March. Give this last name shared by composers Richard [REEK-hart], Johann the Elder, and Johann the Younger.

8. Only oratorio was Christ on the Mount of Olives. He wrote the Moonlight Sonata.

9. Elijah is an oratorio by which German composer who wrote the Hebrides Overture, and an overture for A Midsummer Night's Dream?

10. What composer of an Irish Symphony wrote the music for The Yeoman of the Guard and The Mikado [mee-KAHdoh], two collaborations with William S. Gilbert?

11. This composer's Mountain Symphony is the first of his 13 symphonic poems, a term he is credited with inventing. He transcribed Beethoven's symphonies for piano, and his own piano works include the 'Mephisto Waltz.' For 10 points—name this composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies.

12. Known for operas about a Mantuan court jester (Rigoletto) and the love of Radames (Aida)

13. This composer wrote the operas Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods as part of his Ring cycle.

14. Rigoletto is an opera by this composer of Falstaff and Nabucco [nah-BOO-koh].

15. Symphony of Psalms is from this composer's Neoclassical period. He wrote a work about a living puppet for Sergei Diaghilev while a girl dances herself to death in another ballet whose premier saw a riot.Name this Russian composer of Petrushka [peh-TROOSH-kah] and The Rite of Spring.

16. Wrote an Organ Symphony, the Danse Macabre and The Carnival of the Animals

17. A poem by Stephane MalIarme [stay-fahn mahl-Iar-may] inspired this composer's Prelude to 'The Afternoon of a Faun'.

18. The Hungarian Dances are violin pieces by this German composer also known for a Double Concerto in A minor for violin and cello.

19. Suites that premiered on the royal barge and are known as Water Music. German whose 'Hallelujah' chorus appears in his Messiah.

20. What composer of El Salon Mexico [ell sah-LOHN MAY-hee-koh] wrote the 'Open Prairie' theme for his Billy the Kid ballet and included the tune 'Simple Gifts' in Appalachian Spring?

21. He wrote the operas Idomeneo [ee-doh-may-NAY-oh] and The Abduction from the Seraglio [suh-RAH-lee-oh]. Name this Austrian composer of The Magic Flute.

22. This composer wrote a work named for the Liberty Bell as well as the opera El Capitan. From 1880 to 1892 he conducted the u.S. Marine Band; his namesake (- ) instrument is a modified tuba.Name this American 'March King' who wrote 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'

23. One composer is known for an overture to Egmont and the Moonlight Sonata. Name that German whose Fifth Symphony is known for its opening four-note motif.

24. Peter and the Wolf is by this composer

25. What composer of songs for a film version of Don Quixote [kee-HOH-tee] is better known for his one-act opera The Spanish Hour and the gradually crescendoing [kruh-SHEN-doh-ing] Bolero [boh-LAY-roh]?

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