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WorksheetsSB Composers Quiz
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name the Norwegian composer who was one of the leading Romantic period composers. Known for his piano concertos, "Peer Gynt", and "In the Hall of the Mountain King".
Edvard Grieg
Igor Stravinksy
Johannes Brahms
Frederic Chopin
Name the English composer most known for his symphony, "The Planets". The "Jupiter" symphony has been used in many movies such as "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Richard Wagner
Gustav Holst
Aaron Copland
John Williams
Who was the Austrian composer who composed in several genres, including opera and symphony. His most famous works are "The Magic Flute", "Eine Klein Nachtmusik" and "The Marriage of Figaro"?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johannes Brahms
Name this German composer during the Baroque and Classical era who is most famous for his work "Messiah".
Johann Sebastian Bach
Claude Debussy
George Frideric Handel
George Gershwin
Name this Polish composer most well known for his solo piano pieces during the Romantic period, including his Nocturne in E Flat Major. He is also known for his "Minute Waltz".
Frédéric Chopin
Antonio Verdi
Johannes Brahms
Igor Stravinsky
Name this German composer who is most well known for his symphonies though many he never even heard. He is also known for "Fur Elise" and "Ode to Joy".
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Richard Wagner
Name this German-born composer most well known for his music in the late Baroque period, including The "Well Tempered Clavier" and "Brandenburg Concertos".
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Georges Bizet
Who was the French composer that is most well-known for his work, "Clare de Lune" and was often referred to as the "first Impressionist composer" despite hating that title.
Claude Debussy
Gustav Holst
Edvard Grieg
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Who was the German composer that was most well known for his trios and quartets written for the clarinet and his famed "Lullaby"?
Johannes Brahms
Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Wagner
Gustav Holst
What Russian composer was most well known for his "Nutcracker Suite" and "Swan Lake"?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Igor Stravinsky
Gioachino Rossini
Giuseppe Verdi
Name this Italian composer most famous during the Baroque era and is most well known for his violin concertos known as "The Four Seasons."
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
Giuseppe Verdi
Name the German composer who was named Wilhelm but did not perform under that name. He is most well known for his romantic operas and pieces like "The Ride of the Valkyries."
Igor Stravinsky
Georges Bizet
Richard Wagner
Felix Mendelssohn
This Russian-born composer later claimed both French and American citizenship. He was considered one of the most influential and yet controversial composers of the 20th Century due to pieces like "Rite of Spring." Who is this composer?
Igor Stravinsky
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Dmitri Shostakovich
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
This German-born composer, pianist, and conductor was a star of the early Romantic era. He composed the "Overture" and "Wedding March" for Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johannes Brahms
Felix Mendelssohn
Franz Schubert
This Italian-born composer is most famous for his turn of the century operas entitled "La Boheme" and "Madam Butterfly."
Giuseppe Verdi
Gioachino Rossini
Giacomo Puccini
Antonio Vivaldi
This American composer often worked with his brother, Ira, on such hits as "Porgy and Bess," and "Rhapsody in Blue."
George Gershwin
Richard Wagner
Aaron Copland
Claude Debussy
This French composer of the Romantic era is known for "Habanera" and "Toreador Song" in his opera "Carmen".
Georges Bizet
Claude Debussy
George Handel
Edvard Grieg
One of the most successful Italian composers of the Romantic era known for his operas "Aida", "Rigoletto", and "La Traviata".
Giuseppe Verdi
Gioachino Rossini
Giacomo Puccini
Antonio Vivaldi
American composer whose works were based on folk themes, such as "Billy the Kid", "Rodeo" and "Appalachian Spring".
Aaron Copland
Leonard Bernstein
George Gershwin
John Williams
Italian composer of the operas "The Barber of Seville", "Cinderella", and "William Tell".
Gioachino Rossini
Giuseppe Verdi
Giacomo Puccini
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Russian composer and pianist known for his ballets “Romeo and Juliet” and “Cinderella”. He also created the children’s symphony, “Peter and the Wolf”.
Tchaikovsky
Prokofiev
Holtz
Schubert
American composer known for his military marches. Some of his famous works are “El Capitan”, “The President’s Own”, and “Stars and Stripes Forever”.
Sousa
Copland
Key
Joplin
American composer and pianist whose most famous works include “Candide”, “On the Town” and “West Side Story”.
Beethoven
Webber
Bernstein
Gershwin
American composer and pianist known as the “The King of Ragtime”. His most famous work is “The Entertainer”.
Gershwin
Copland
Sousa
Joplin
