Musicians & ComposersScholar 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”