Scholar Bowl Study Guide Musicians & Composers Scholar Bowl Study Guide
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750 German Baroque “Brandenburg Concertos” “Well-Tempered Clavier”
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 – 1827 German Classical “Moonlight Sonata” “Ninth Symphony” – contains “Ode to Joy”
Irving Berlin 1888 – 1989 American “White Christmas” “God Bless America” “Puttin’ on the Ritz” Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1968
Aaron Copland 1900 – 1990 American Modern “Appalachian Spring”
Sir Edward William Elgar 1857 – 1934 English Romanticism “Pomp & Circumstance”
George Gershwin 1898 – 1937 American “I Got Rhythm” “Rhapsody in Blue” “An American in Paris” 1st to win Pulitzer Prize in music 1931 Brother Ira wrote lyrics
George Frederic Handel 1685 – 1759 German Baroque “Messiah” “Royal Fireworks Music”
Franz Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1791 Austrian Classical “Surprise Symphony”
Julia Ward Howe 1819 – 1910 American “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Scott Joplin 1868 – 1917 American “Mississippi Rag” “Maple Leaf Rag”
Francis Scott Key 1779 – 1843 American “Star Spangled Banner”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791 Austrian Classical “The Marriage of Figaro” “Don Giovanni” “Jupiter Symphony” “The Magic Flute”
Giacomo Puccini 1858 – 1924 Italian Romantic “La Boheme” “Tosca” “Madame Butterfly” “Turandot”
Gioacchino Rossini 1792 – 1868 Italian Romantic “William Tell” “Barber of Seville” “Cinderella”
John Philip Sousa 1854 – 1932 American Known as the “March King” Leader of the U.S. Marine Corps Band “Washington Post March” “The Stars & Stripes Forever”
Johann Strauss 1825 – 1899 Austrian The younger Johann Strauss Known as the “Waltz King” “Blue Danube Waltz”
Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971 American (Russian born) Modern “Rite of Spring” Operas & ballets
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893 Russian Romantic “Swan Lake” – ballet “1812 Overture” “The Nutcracker” – ballet “Sleeping Beauty” - ballet
Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901 Italian Foremost Italian composer of opera “Aida” “Rigoletto” “La Traviata”
Antonio Vivaldi 1677 – 1741 Italian Baroque “The Four Seasons”
Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883 German Romantic “Ring of the Nibelungen” “The Flying Dutchman”
Andrew Lloyd Weber 1948 – present English “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” “Jesus Christ Superstar” “Cats” “Phantom of the Opera” “Evita”
Gilbert & Sullivan Sir William Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan English “The Pirates of Penzance” “H. M. S. Pinafore”
Rodgers & Hammerstein Richard Rodgers – composer Oscar Hammerstein – lyricist American “The Sound of Music” “Oklahoma” “South Pacific” “The King and I”