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Composer's living years and nationality
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Answer
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995-1050, Italian
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Guido of Arezzo
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1098-1179, German
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Hildegard of Bingen
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1160-1230, French
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Pérotin
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1291-1361, French
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Philippe de Vitry
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1300-1377, French
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Guillaume de Machaut
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1390-1453, English
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John Dunstable
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1397-1474, Dutch
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Guillaume Dufay
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1525-1594, Italian
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
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1543-1623, English
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William Byrd
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1567-1643, Italian
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Claudio Monteverdi
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1582-1652, Italian
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Gregorio Allegri
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1585-1672, German
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Heinrich Schütz
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1632-1687, French
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
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1637-1707, German
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Dietrich Buxtehude
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1653-1706, German
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Johann Pachelbel
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1653-1713, Italian
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Arcangelo Corelli
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1659-1695, English
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Henry Purcell
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1671-1751, Italian
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Tomaso Albinoni
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1678-1741, Italian
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Antonio Vivaldi
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1681-1767, German
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Georg Philipp Telemann
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1683-1764, French
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
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1685-1759, German
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George Frideric Handel
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1685-1750, German
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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1685-1757, Italian
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Domenico Scarlatti
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1710-1736, Italian
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
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1732-1809, Austrian
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Joseph Haydn
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1756-1791, Austrian
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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1770-1827, German
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Ludvig van Beethoven
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1782-1840, Italian
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Niccolò Paganini
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1791-1857, Austrian
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Carl Czerny
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1792-1868, Italian
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Gioachino Rossini
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1797-1828, Austrian
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Franz Schubert
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1797-1848, Italian
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Gaetano Donizetti
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1803-1869, French
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Hector Berlioz
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1804-1857, Russian
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Mikhail Glinka
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1804-1849, Austrian
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Johann Strauss I
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1809-1847, German
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Felix Mendelssohn
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1810-1856, German
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Robert Schumann
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1810-1849, Polish
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Frederic Chopin
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1811-1886, Hungarian
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Franz Liszt
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1813-1883, German
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Richard Wagner
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1813-1901, Italian
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Giuseppe Verdi
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1818-1893, French
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Charles Gounod
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1819-1880, French (German-born)
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Jacques Offenbach
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1822-1890, Belgian
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César Franck
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1824-1896, Austrian
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Anton Bruckner
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1824-1884, Czechian
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Bedřich Smetana
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1825-1899, Austrian
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Johann Strauss II
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1833-1897, German
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Johannes Brahms
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1833-1887, Russian
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Alexander Borodin
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1835-1921, French
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Camille Saint-Saëns
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1838-1875, French
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Georges Bizet
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1839-1881, Russian
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Modest Mussorgsky
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1840-1893, Russian
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Pjotr Tchaikovsky
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1841-1904, Czechian
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Antonín Dvořák
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1842-1912, French
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Jules Massenet
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1843-1907, Norwegian
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Edvard Grieg
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1844-1908, Russian
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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1845-1924, French
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Gabriel Fauré
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1854-1925, German
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Moritz Moszkowski
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1857-1934, English
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Edvard Elgar
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1858-1924, Italian
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Giacomo Puccini
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1860-1911, Austrian
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Gustav Mahler
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1862-1934, English
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Frederick Delius
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1862-1918, French
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Claude Debussy
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1864-1949, German
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Richard Strauss
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1865-1957, Finnish
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Jean Sibelius
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1866-1925, French
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Erik Satie
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1872-1915, Russian
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Alexander Scriabin
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1872-1958, British
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
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1873-1943, Russian
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
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1874-1951, Austrian
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Arnold Schoenberg
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1874-1934, English
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Gustav Holst
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1874-1954, American
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Charles Ives
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1875-1937, French
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Maurice Ravel
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1881-1945, Hungarian
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Béla Bartók
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1882-1971, Russian
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Igor Stravinsky
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1882-1961, Australian
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Percy Grainger
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1882-1967, Hungarian
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Zoltán Kodály
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1891-1953, Russian
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Sergei Prokofiev
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1892-1988, English
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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
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1898-1937, American
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George Gershwin
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1899-1963, French
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Francis Poulenc
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1900-1990, American
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Aaron Copland
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1903-1978, Armenian
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Aram Khachaturian
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1904-1987, Russian
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Dmitri Kabalevsky
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1906-1975, Russian
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Dmitri Šostakovitš
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1908-1992, French
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Olivier Messiaen
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1910-1981, American
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Samuel Barber
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1912-1992, American
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John Cage
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1913-1976, English
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Benjamin Britten
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1918-1990, American
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Leonard Bernstein
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1923-2006, Hungarian-Austrian
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György Ligeti
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1928-2007, German
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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1928-2016, Finnish
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Einojuhani Rautavaara
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1932-, American
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John Williams
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1933-2020, Polish
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Krzysztof Penderecki
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1935-, Estonian
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Arvo Pärt
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1936-, American
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Steve Reich
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1937-, American
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Philip Glass
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Those very early ones are tough to remember....not exactly in the top 40!
Good quiz, spanning so many centuries!