Greatest classical music composers - Statistics

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Composer's living years and nationality Answer % Correct
1756-1791, Austrian Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
96%
1685-1750, German Johann Sebastian Bach
94%
1770-1827, German Ludvig van Beethoven
93%
1810-1849, Polish Frederic Chopin
88%
1678-1741, Italian Antonio Vivaldi
85%
1840-1893, Russian Pjotr Tchaikovsky
85%
1862-1918, French Claude Debussy
81%
1811-1886, Hungarian Franz Liszt
81%
1797-1828, Austrian Franz Schubert
81%
1685-1759, German George Frideric Handel
80%
1732-1809, Austrian Joseph Haydn
79%
1833-1897, German Johannes Brahms
78%
1810-1856, German Robert Schumann
77%
1813-1901, Italian Giuseppe Verdi
76%
1813-1883, German Richard Wagner
76%
1843-1907, Norwegian Edvard Grieg
72%
1882-1971, Russian Igor Stravinsky
72%
1841-1904, Czechian Antonín Dvořák
71%
1875-1937, French Maurice Ravel
71%
1864-1949, German Richard Strauss
71%
1865-1957, Finnish Jean Sibelius
70%
1804-1849, Austrian Johann Strauss I
70%
1825-1899, Austrian Johann Strauss II
70%
1873-1943, Russian Sergei Rachmaninoff
70%
1809-1847, German Felix Mendelssohn
67%
1906-1975, Russian Dmitri Šostakovitš
66%
1891-1953, Russian Sergei Prokofiev
65%
1860-1911, Austrian Gustav Mahler
64%
1858-1924, Italian Giacomo Puccini
63%
1792-1868, Italian Gioachino Rossini
61%
1844-1908, Russian Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
59%
1857-1934, English Edvard Elgar
57%
1881-1945, Hungarian Béla Bartók
56%
1835-1921, French Camille Saint-Saëns
55%
1872-1958, British Ralph Vaughan Williams
55%
1898-1937, American George Gershwin
54%
1838-1875, French Georges Bizet
51%
1803-1869, French Hector Berlioz
51%
1839-1881, Russian Modest Mussorgsky
51%
1567-1643, Italian Claudio Monteverdi
49%
1782-1840, Italian Niccolò Paganini
49%
1900-1990, American Aaron Copland
48%
1874-1934, English Gustav Holst
48%
1866-1925, French Erik Satie
45%
1913-1976, English Benjamin Britten
44%
1681-1767, German Georg Philipp Telemann
44%
1659-1695, English Henry Purcell
44%
1845-1924, French Gabriel Fauré
42%
1819-1880, French (German-born) Jacques Offenbach
41%
1932-, American John Williams
41%
1874-1951, Austrian Arnold Schoenberg
39%
1918-1990, American Leonard Bernstein
39%
1824-1896, Austrian Anton Bruckner
38%
1824-1884, Czechian Bedřich Smetana
38%
1685-1757, Italian Domenico Scarlatti
37%
1653-1706, German Johann Pachelbel
37%
1910-1981, American Samuel Barber
36%
1833-1887, Russian Alexander Borodin
35%
1874-1954, American Charles Ives
34%
1903-1978, Armenian Aram Khachaturian
33%
1683-1764, French Jean-Philippe Rameau
33%
1872-1915, Russian Alexander Scriabin
30%
1935-, Estonian Arvo Pärt
30%
1653-1713, Italian Arcangelo Corelli
29%
1822-1890, Belgian César Franck
28%
1632-1687, French Jean-Baptiste Lully
28%
1912-1992, American John Cage
28%
1804-1857, Russian Mikhail Glinka
28%
1937-, American Philip Glass
28%
1899-1963, French Francis Poulenc
25%
1797-1848, Italian Gaetano Donizetti
25%
1525-1594, Italian Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
22%
1818-1893, French Charles Gounod
21%
1842-1912, French Jules Massenet
21%
1543-1623, English William Byrd
21%
1671-1751, Italian Tomaso Albinoni
20%
1098-1179, German Hildegard of Bingen
18%
1908-1992, French Olivier Messiaen
17%
1862-1934, English Frederick Delius
16%
1300-1377, French Guillaume de Machaut
11%
1923-2006, Hungarian-Austrian György Ligeti
11%
1936-, American Steve Reich
11%
1637-1707, German Dietrich Buxtehude
10%
1710-1736, Italian Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
10%
1928-2007, German Karlheinz Stockhausen
10%
1933-2020, Polish Krzysztof Penderecki
10%
1904-1987, Russian Dmitri Kabalevsky
8%
1928-2016, Finnish Einojuhani Rautavaara
8%
1397-1474, Dutch Guillaume Dufay
8%
1882-1961, Australian Percy Grainger
8%
1160-1230, French Pérotin
8%
1882-1967, Hungarian Zoltán Kodály
8%
1791-1857, Austrian Carl Czerny
7%
1585-1672, German Heinrich Schütz
7%
995-1050, Italian Guido of Arezzo
6%
1582-1652, Italian Gregorio Allegri
5%
1390-1453, English John Dunstable
4%
1854-1925, German Moritz Moszkowski
3%
1291-1361, French Philippe de Vitry
3%
1892-1988, English Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
1%
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