| Hint | Era | Answer | % Correct |
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| Went deaf later in life | Classical | Ludwig van Beethoven | 99%
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| Perhaps the most famous child prodigy of all time. | Classical | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 79%
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| Came from a musical family; had many children who continued the musical tradition. | Baroque | Johann Sebastian Bach | 75%
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| Venetian composer famous for his set of four violin concertos. | Baroque | Antonio Vivaldi | 69%
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| Now known almost exclusively for his Canon. | Baroque | Johann Pachelbel | 69%
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| Wrote almost exclusively for solo piano, had a high-profile love life including an affair with the French novelist George Sand. | Romantic | Fryderyk Chopin | 56%
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| Second eldest son of the above, wrote music at the transition of the Baroque and Classical eras (type his initials for the answer). | Baroque | Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach | 52%
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| Said to have made a deal with the devil to play violin so well. | Romantic | Niccolo Paganini | 51%
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| Had a complicated relationship with Stalin and Soviet Russia. | 20th century | Dmitri Shostakovich | 50%
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| Piano virtuoso who wrote many piano transcriptions and arrangements of other composer's works, including the fiendishly difficult Réminiscences de Don Juan. | Romantic | Franz Liszt | 46%
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| Composer who debuted most of her husband's piano works as a performer (Type her first name for the answer). | Romantic | Clara Schumann | 45%
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| Their most famous work is unfinished. | Romantic | Franz Schubert | 42%
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| Known as Impressionist despite strongly rejecting the term. | 20th century | Claude Debussy | 38%
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| Hungarian composer who championed folk melodies, wrote a "Concerto for Orchestra". | 20th century | Bela Bartok | 37%
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| Nationalist composer who helped develop his country's national identity while it sought independence from Russia. | Romantic | Jean Sibelius | 32%
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| Rumoured to have been in love with the above after the above's husband was institutionalised. | Romantic | Johannes Brahms | 27%
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| Jewish leader of the Second Viennese School whose works were targeted by the Nazi Party. | 20th century | Arnold Schoenberg | 20%
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| Supported himself as a taxi driver while starting his compositional career. | 20th/21st century | Phillip Glass | 18%
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| At the premiere of this composer's most famous piece, a woman shouted he was mad. He remarked that she understood the piece. | 20th century | Maurice Ravel | 14%
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| Had synaesthesia, influenced by theosophy and Russian Symbolism. | 20th century | Alexander Scriabin | 13%
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