Classical Music

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Memorize these and recognize 27.1% of all Classical Music clues.

1 Ludwig van Beethoven 27x

2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 25x

3 Johann Sebastian Bach 16x

4 Tchaikovsky 15x

5 Antonio Vivaldi 15x

6 Johannes Brahms 15x

7 George Frideric Handel 14x

8 Frederic Chopin 13x

9 Franz Liszt 13x

10 Handel's Messiah 12x

11 Felix Mendelssohn 11x

12 Joseph Haydn 10x

13 Franz Schubert 10x

14 Claude Debussy 10x

15 Richard Wagner 10x

16 the violin 9x

17 Vienna 8x

18 Van Cliburn 8x

19 the 1812 Overture 8x

20 Edvard Grieg 8x

21 Stravinsky 7x

22 Richard Strauss 7x

23 Puccini 7x

24 the organ 7x

25 the New York Philharmonic 6x

26 Leonard Bernstein 6x

27 Baroque 6x

28 the cello 6x

29 Gioachino Rossini 6x

30 The Planets 5x

31 Scheherazade 5x

32 Rimsky-Korsakov 5x

33 Leopold Stokowski 5x

34 Itzhak Perlman 5x

35 Camille Saint-Saens 5x

36 "Pomp And Circumstance" 5x

37 Bolero 5x

38 Arturo Toscanini 5x

39 Giuseppe Verdi 5x

40 Robert Schumann 5x

41 the piano 5x

42 Maurice Ravel 5x

43 Georges Bizet 5x

44 Zubin Mehta 4x

45 William Tell 4x

46 The Rite of Spring 4x

47 Sibelius 4x

48 Paganini 4x

49 Pablo Casals 4x

50 Operas 4x

Sample Clues

In 1802 he wrote that "Anyone standing beside me could hear at a distance a flute that I could not hear"

Ludwig van Beethoven

Giuseppe Gazzaniga & this composer based their "Don Giovanni" operas on the same libretto

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

As choir director for St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, he wrote 6 cantatas known as the "Christmas Oratorio"

Johann Sebastian Bach

Melancholy Russian many think committed suicide by drinking contaminated water

Tchaikovsky

Readers of Keynote magazine voted his "The Four Seasons" the most boring classical composition

Antonio Vivaldi

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Ludwig van Beethoven (27) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (25) Tchaikovsky (15) Johann Sebastian Bach (14) Johannes Brahms (13) Handel (11) Vivaldi (10) Franz Liszt (10) Chopin (9) Vienna (8) Van Cliburn (8) Haydn (8) Richard Wagner (8) Mendelssohn (8) the Messiah (7) the 1812 Overture (7) Stravinsky (7) Schubert (7) Debussy (7) the New York Philharmonic (6) Leonard Bernstein (6) Baroque (6) the violin (5) The Planets (5) Scheherazade (5) Rimsky-Korsakov (5) Leopold Stokowski (5) Itzhak Perlman (5) Camille Saint-Saens (5) "Pomp And Circumstance" (5)