Composers

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1 Ludwig van Beethoven 36x

2 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 30x

3 W.A. Mozart 30x

4 Johann Sebastian Bach 25x

5 Frederic Chopin 24x

6 Igor Stravinsky 23x

7 George Gershwin 23x

8 George Frideric Handel 21x

9 Richard Wagner 21x

10 Claude Debussy 20x

11 Franz Liszt 19x

12 Felix Mendelssohn 19x

13 Franz Joseph Haydn 18x

14 Giuseppe Verdi 17x

15 Franz Schubert 16x

16 Edvard Grieg 16x

17 Johannes Brahms 16x

18 Aaron Copland 15x

19 Maurice Ravel 14x

20 Vienna 13x

21 Giacomo Puccini 13x

22 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 11x

23 Sousa 11x

24 Antonio Salieri 11x

25 Rossini 11x

26 Richard Strauss 11x

27 Edward Elgar 11x

28 Antonio Vivaldi 10x

29 Scott Joplin 9x

30 J.S. Bach 9x

31 Cole Porter 9x

32 Jean Sibelius 9x

33 Leonard Bernstein 8x

34 Bizet 8x

35 Robert Schumann 8x

36 the piano 8x

37 Modest Mussorgsky 7x

38 Antonin Dvorak 7x

39 Johann Strauss 6x

40 An American in Paris 6x

41 John Williams 6x

42 Stephen Foster 5x

43 Russia 5x

44 Sergei Rachmaninoff 5x

45 Richard Rodgers 5x

46 Jacques Offenbach 5x

47 Paganini 4x

48 Duke Ellington 4x

49 Carmen 4x

Sample Clues

His period of work between "Eroica" & Symphony No. 8 is known as his heroic decade

Ludwig van Beethoven

It was rumored that he committed suicide over the failure of his last symphony, the "Pathetique"

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

His father was vice kappellmeister to the court of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg

W.A. Mozart

The 46 chorales in his "Little Organ Book" were written for various feast days of the church year

Johann Sebastian Bach

He began to suffer from tuberculosis shortly after taking up with George Sand around 1837

Frederic Chopin

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Ludwig van Beethoven (36) Tchaikovsky (27) Mozart (27) Johann Sebastian Bach (25) Igor Stravinsky (23) George Gershwin (21) Richard Wagner (21) Chopin (20) George Frideric Handel (19) Claude Debussy (17) Franz Liszt (17) Giuseppe Verdi (17) Felix Mendelssohn (17) Franz Schubert (16) Edvard Grieg (16) Joseph Haydn (14) Johannes Brahms (13) Vienna (12) Sousa (11) Antonio Salieri (11) Richard Strauss (11) Puccini (10) Aaron Copland (10) Scott Joplin (9) Rimsky-Korsakov (9) J.S. Bach (9) Cole Porter (9) Vivaldi (8) Leonard Bernstein (8) Ravel (7)