1. Sibelius

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

3. Brahms

4. Symphony No. 9, 'Great'

5. U2

6. Rigoletto - hunchbacked Jester

7. (Camille) Saint-Saëns

8. (Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Herbert Kretzmer, 1985). A partial retelling of the Victor Hugo novel of the same name, this work follows Jean Valjean, who was convicted of stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving niece. He breaks his parole and is doggedly pursued by Inspector Javert. Several years later, the lives of Valjean, his adoptive daughter Cosette, her lover Marius and his former lover Éponine, and Javert become intertwined on the barricades of an 1832 student rebellion in Paris. The longest-running show on London's West End, it features the songs 'I Dreamed a Dream,' 'Master of the House,' 'Do You Hear the People Sing?', 'One Day More,' and 'On My Own.'

9. What composer of 'It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)' is on the Washington, D.C. quarter and was a big band leader nicknamed 'Duke'?

10. This Russian composer of The Nutcracker also wrote Swan Lake.

11. The Planets

12. (Ottorino) Respighi

13. What composer, whose three symphonies include The Age of Anxiety and Kaddish [KAH-dish], wrote the music for On the Tawn, Candide [kahn-DEED], and West Side Story?

14. In 1832 this man conducted his own Symphony in C major, the year before his first opera, The Fairies, premiered. He collaborated on Rienzi [ree-EN-zee] with Giacomo Meyerbeer, whom he later attacked in his writings. In his later operas he developed the concept of associating ideas or characters with particular musical phrases called leitmotivs [LYTE-moh-teefs]. For 10 points—name this German composer of Tristan and Isolde [ee-ZOHL-deh] and The Flying Dutchman.

15. What composer used a theme from his ballet The Creatures of Prometheus [pruh-MEE-thee-uhs] in his Third Symphony, a work once dedicated to Napoleon and nicknamed Eroica [uh-ROH-ih-kuh]?

16. (Gustav) Mahler

17. (Irving) Berlin

18. (Claude) Debussy

19. (George Frideric) Handel

20. Puccini

21. Berlioz

22. Loewe

23. Schubert

24. The Mikado

25. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini