{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/music-composers-and-works",
 "id": "music-composers-and-works",
 "title": "Composers and Famous Works",
 "category": "arts-music",
 "subject": "Music History",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12",
  "adult"
 ],
 "description": "Great composers, when and where they lived, and well-known pieces.",
 "tags": [
  "composers",
  "classical",
  "works"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Work or clue",
 "backLabel": "Composer",
 "cards": [
  [
   "The Four Seasons",
   "Antonio Vivaldi",
   "Baroque violin concertos"
  ],
  [
   "Brandenburg Concertos",
   "Johann Sebastian Bach"
  ],
  [
   "Toccata and Fugue in D minor",
   "Johann Sebastian Bach",
   "Organ work"
  ],
  [
   "Messiah",
   "George Frideric Handel",
   "Includes the Hallelujah chorus"
  ],
  [
   "Water Music",
   "George Frideric Handel"
  ],
  [
   "The Surprise Symphony (No. 94)",
   "Joseph Haydn",
   "Has a sudden loud chord"
  ],
  [
   "The Magic Flute",
   "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart",
   "An opera"
  ],
  [
   "Eine kleine Nachtmusik",
   "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"
  ],
  [
   "The Marriage of Figaro",
   "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart",
   "An opera"
  ],
  [
   "Symphony No. 5 (da-da-da-DUM)",
   "Ludwig van Beethoven"
  ],
  [
   "Ode to Joy (Symphony No. 9)",
   "Ludwig van Beethoven"
  ],
  [
   "Moonlight Sonata",
   "Ludwig van Beethoven",
   "Piano sonata"
  ],
  [
   "Fur Elise",
   "Ludwig van Beethoven"
  ],
  [
   "Trout Quintet",
   "Franz Schubert"
  ],
  [
   "Ave Maria (famous setting)",
   "Franz Schubert"
  ],
  [
   "Hungarian Dances",
   "Johannes Brahms"
  ],
  [
   "Brahms's Lullaby",
   "Johannes Brahms"
  ],
  [
   "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2",
   "Franz Liszt"
  ],
  [
   "Minute Waltz",
   "Frederic Chopin",
   "Piano"
  ],
  [
   "Nocturnes for piano",
   "Frederic Chopin"
  ],
  [
   "The Blue Danube",
   "Johann Strauss II",
   "Waltz"
  ],
  [
   "Carnival of the Animals",
   "Camille Saint-Saens"
  ],
  [
   "Danse Macabre",
   "Camille Saint-Saens"
  ],
  [
   "Peer Gynt Suite",
   "Edvard Grieg",
   "Includes In the Hall of the Mountain King"
  ],
  [
   "Symphony from the New World",
   "Antonin Dvorak"
  ],
  [
   "The Nutcracker",
   "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky",
   "Ballet"
  ],
  [
   "Swan Lake",
   "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky",
   "Ballet"
  ],
  [
   "The Sleeping Beauty",
   "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky",
   "Ballet"
  ],
  [
   "1812 Overture",
   "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky",
   "Has cannon fire"
  ],
  [
   "Pictures at an Exhibition",
   "Modest Mussorgsky",
   "Later orchestrated by Ravel"
  ],
  [
   "Flight of the Bumblebee",
   "Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov"
  ],
  [
   "Scheherazade",
   "Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov"
  ],
  [
   "Boléro",
   "Maurice Ravel"
  ],
  [
   "Clair de lune",
   "Claude Debussy",
   "Piano"
  ],
  [
   "La mer",
   "Claude Debussy",
   "Orchestral sea pictures"
  ],
  [
   "Gymnopedies",
   "Erik Satie"
  ],
  [
   "The Planets",
   "Gustav Holst"
  ],
  [
   "The Rite of Spring",
   "Igor Stravinsky",
   "Ballet"
  ],
  [
   "The Firebird",
   "Igor Stravinsky",
   "Ballet"
  ],
  [
   "Peter and the Wolf",
   "Sergei Prokofiev",
   "Instruments tell a story"
  ],
  [
   "Romeo and Juliet ballet",
   "Sergei Prokofiev"
  ],
  [
   "Rhapsody in Blue",
   "George Gershwin"
  ],
  [
   "An American in Paris",
   "George Gershwin"
  ],
  [
   "Appalachian Spring",
   "Aaron Copland",
   "Ballet"
  ],
  [
   "Fanfare for the Common Man",
   "Aaron Copland"
  ],
  [
   "Stars and Stripes Forever",
   "John Philip Sousa",
   "March"
  ],
  [
   "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra",
   "Benjamin Britten"
  ],
  [
   "West Side Story music",
   "Leonard Bernstein"
  ],
  [
   "Star Wars theme",
   "John Williams"
  ],
  [
   "Carmen",
   "Georges Bizet",
   "Opera"
  ],
  [
   "La Traviata",
   "Giuseppe Verdi",
   "Opera"
  ],
  [
   "Aida",
   "Giuseppe Verdi",
   "Opera"
  ],
  [
   "The Barber of Seville",
   "Gioachino Rossini",
   "Opera"
  ],
  [
   "William Tell Overture",
   "Gioachino Rossini"
  ],
  [
   "La Boheme",
   "Giacomo Puccini",
   "Opera"
  ],
  [
   "The Ring Cycle",
   "Richard Wagner",
   "Four operas"
  ],
  [
   "Ride of the Valkyries",
   "Richard Wagner"
  ],
  [
   "Also sprach Zarathustra",
   "Richard Strauss",
   "Used in 2001: A Space Odyssey"
  ],
  [
   "Finlandia",
   "Jean Sibelius"
  ],
  [
   "The Sorcerer's Apprentice",
   "Paul Dukas"
  ],
  [
   "Canon in D",
   "Johann Pachelbel"
  ],
  [
   "Ballet Rodeo",
   "Aaron Copland"
  ],
  [
   "Slavonic Dances",
   "Antonin Dvorak"
  ],
  [
   "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1",
   "Edward Elgar"
  ],
  [
   "Lullaby (Wiegenlied)",
   "Johannes Brahms"
  ],
  [
   "Prelude in C major (Well-Tempered Clavier)",
   "Johann Sebastian Bach"
  ],
  [
   "Bolero was written by this French composer",
   "Maurice Ravel"
  ],
  [
   "Rodeo's Hoe-Down is by this American",
   "Aaron Copland"
  ],
  [
   "Oh Fortuna (Carmina Burana)",
   "Carl Orff"
  ]
 ]
}