Can you name the following Famous Composers? - sporcle

Can you name the following Famous Composers? Enter a composer (last names acceptable) in the box below Correctly named composers will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order You have 10 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Popular trivia games today Fast Math 2 24015 One-Word #1 Songs 19451 Political Parties with Electoral Votes 9627 Sports Figures In Other Words 8579 Vowel-less Book Titles 7882 Four Letter Things 7316 Populated Neighboring Countries 4426 And more...
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Well Known Work	Composer	Country
Moonlight Sonata		Germany
Firebird		Russia
William Tell		Italy
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor		Germany
Clair de Lune (Suite bergamasque)		France
Marriage of Figaro		Austria
Minute Waltz		Poland
Appalachian Spring		USA
Totentanz		Hungary
1812 Overture		Russia

Well Known Work	Composer	Country
The Surprise Symphony		Austria
Piano Concerto in A minor		Norway
Boléro		France
Piano Concerto No. 2		Russia
Finlandia		Finland
Messiah		Germany
The Planets		England
Canon in D		Germany
On The Beautiful Blue Danube		Austria
Pictures at an Exhibition		Russia

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Famous Composers

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Published: July 22nd, 2008

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	Bonnie A:	Sep 16th, 2008 at 03:36 GMT	7 points
	Although a few of my favorites were missing, like Brahms and Schubert, this isn't a bad list. Maybe we'll see one just for opera composers.

	davidr:	Oct 31st, 2008 at 01:31 GMT	6 points
	So, Russians who've written at least two piano concerti? Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Rubinstein, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky spring immediately to mind; a little Googling gives Balakirev, Glazunov, Kabalevsky, Medtner, Shchedrin and Tcherepnin, too.

	magister:	Nov 1st, 2008 at 21:20 GMT	4 points
	If we're going to go on Russians, a quick fun one would be "The Five."

	Lulu:	Nov 16th, 2008 at 12:40 GMT	3 points
	Could we have a 'famous composers 2' quiz with Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Mendelssohn etc. please?

	loki1983:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 08:05 GMT	2 points
	Including Pachebel but not any of Lulu's composers or davidr's is blasphamy. Sure he's famous, but maybe a "great" quiz should trump his inclusion

	BigThing:	Feb 15th, 2009 at 00:19 GMT	3 points
	The key word is "famous". I think this quiz is a good mix of obvious and less obvious answers. In that light it's also perfectly clear that Rachmaninoff is prime candidate for "well known for his 2nd piano concerto". And of course it's nice to spray names that you would have liked included (because then you'd get them and others might not) so Bartok, Dvorak, Verdi, Satie, Pärt. But this is a very good quiz aimed at a large demographic.

	sophicmuse:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 01:27 GMT	11 points
	That's quite a Lizst you've got there.

	michelplatini:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 21:25 GMT	1 point
	I forget copland, and I lost a couple of minutes to write Tchaikovsky!

	icing:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 04:49 GMT	1 point
	I'm going to bed! I'm so disgusted that I couldn't remember Hadyn ... I've only got about 20 CDs of his stuff! Does anyone else find themselves just wanting to scream out loud at these things, sometimes, because you can't think of a name? Pffft!

	pottedstu:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 12:06 GMT	1 point
	This is one of those quizzes where spelling is what makes it hard. I struggled with Copland and Grieg and couldn't get Mussorgsky or Pachelbel right at all.

	mtc:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 09:41 GMT	1 point
	@icing And because you misspelled Haydn?

	s1rnight:	Nov 14th, 2009 at 23:16 GMT	1 point
	well that was painfully easy (/smug)

	dark_chocolate:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT	1 point
	sequel please! so many more that u could use!

	twojacks:	Feb 5th, 2010 at 04:56 GMT	1 point
	There was no Haydn the clever, once I got a Handel on the idea, I laid Bach, de-Straussed and finished the Liszt. (sorry it's late and I am tired)

	Tyrael:	Apr 24th, 2010 at 02:07 GMT	0 points
	Not bad, but I am of the opinion that there are many notable and conspicuous absences from this list of Famous Composers. In addition to figures already mentioned, what of, for instance, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Paganini, and one whom I believe to be among the foremost of the great composers of violin music, Vivaldi?

	ensiform:	May 5th, 2010 at 03:34 GMT	1 point
	Should have made the answers be in order. This is just a "name some composers!" quiz.

	marsviking:	May 12th, 2010 at 16:38 GMT	0 points
	i'm sure it's moussorgsky

	marsviking:	May 12th, 2010 at 16:39 GMT	1 point
	i thot totentanz sounded like wagner

	Chevron42:	May 31st, 2010 at 04:27 GMT	2 points
	Tchaikowsky should be an acceptable transliteration of Tchaikovsky's cyrillic russian name