Stats: The 100 Greatest Music Composers

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Lifetime	Nationality	Two Main Compositions	Composers	% Correct
1756-1791	Austrian	The Marriage of Figaro OvertureSymphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	97%
1685-1750	German	The Brandenburg ConcertosThe Well-Tempered Clavier	Johann Sebastian Bach	96%
1770-1827	German	Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathétique"Piano Sonata No. 23 "Appassionata"	Ludwig van Beethoven	95%
1813-1883	German	The Ring Of The NibelungDie Walküre	Richard Wagner	88%
1840-1893	Russian	The Seasons: June Swan Lake: Spanish Dance	Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	87%
1810-1849	Polish	Marche Funèbre, Op. 72 No. 2Étude Op. 25 No. 1 "Aeolian Harp"	Frédéric Chopin	81%
1882-1971	Russian	The Rite of SpringOedipus Rex	Igor Stravinsky	76%
1811-1886	Hungarian	Mephisto Waltz No. 1Liebestraum No. 3	Franz Liszt	73%
1813-1901	Italian	La Traviata: Libiamo ne' lieti caliciRigoletto: La donna è mobile	Giuseppe Verdi	72%
1833-1897	German	Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1	Johannes Brahms	70%
1685-1759	German-British	Water MusicMusic for the Royal Fireworks	George Frideric Handel	68%
1841-1904	Czech	Humoresque No. 7Slavonic Dances	Antonín Dvořák	67%
1797-1828	Austrian	Ständchen, D. 889 "Serenade"Erlkönig	Franz Schubert	67%
1865-1957	Finnish	Finlandia, Op. 26The Maiden in the Tower, JS 101	Jean Sibelius	66%
1678-1741	Italian	Gloria, RV589L’Estro Armónico	Antonio Vivaldi	65%
1862-1918	French	La cathédrale engloutieArabesque No. 1	Claude Debussy	65%
1732-1809	Austrian	Cello Concerto No. 2 in D MajorThe Creation	Joseph Haydn	63%
1891-1953	Russian	Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64	Sergei Prokofiev	61%
1864-1949	German	Also Sprach ZarathustraSalome, Op. 54	Richard Strauss	60%
1843-1907	Norwegian	Peer Gynt: Morning MoodPeer Gynt: Solveig's Song	Edvard Grieg	58%
1858-1924	Italian	Tosca: Vissi d'arteMadama Butterfly: Un bel dì, vedremo	Giacomo Puccini	56%
1810-1856	German	KinderszenenFantasie in C	Robert Schumann	56%
1835-1921	French	Le Carnaval des animaux: Le cygneSamson and Delilah, Op. 47	Camille Saint-Saëns	54%
1898-1937	American	Rhapsody in BlueI Got Rhythm	George Gershwin	54%
1809-1847	German	A Midsummer Night's DreamElijah, Op. 70	Felix Mendelssohn	51%
1875-1937	French	Pavane pour une infante défunteGaspard de la nuit, M. 55	Maurice Ravel	50%
1857-1934	British	Salut d'Amour, Op. 12Enigma Variations, Op. 36	Edward Elgar	49%
1860-1911	Bohemian	Das Lied Von Der ErdeSymphony No. 2 "Resurrection"	Gustav Mahler	49%
1881-1945	Hungarian	Duke Bluebeard's CastleThe Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19	Béla Bartók	47%
1792-1868	Italian	L'italiana in AlgeriGuglielmo Tell	Giacomo Rossini	47%
1906-1975	Russian-Soviet	The Gadfly SuiteLady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29	Dmitri Shostakovich	46%
1838-1875	French	L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2: FarandoleCarmen: Votre Toast	Georges Bizet	46%
1874-1934	British	The Planets, Op. 32: MarsThe Wandering Scholar, Op. 50	Gustav Holst	46%
1900-1990	American	Appalachian SpringFanfare for the Common Man	Aaron Copland	42%
1839-1881	Russian	Boris GodunovGreat Gate of Kyiv	Modest Mussorgsky	41%
1873-1943	Russian-Soviet	14 Romaces, Op. 34 Six moments musicaux, D. 780	Sergei Rachmaninoff	41%
1567-1643	Italian	L'Orfeo, SV 318Vespero della Beata Vergine, SV 206	Claudio Monteverdi	39%
1844-1908	Russian	Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34Scheherazade, Op. 35	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	39%
1866-1925	French	Trois GnossiennesTrois morceaux en forme de poire	Erik Satie	36%
1912-1992	American	4'33''In a Landscape	John Cage	36%
1824-1884	Czech	Má vlast, JB. 1:112Prodaná nevěsta, JB. 1:100	Bedrick Smetana	35%
1913-1976	British	War Requiem, Op. 66The Prince of the Pagodas	Benjamin Britten	34%
1803-1869	French	Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts)Les nuits d'été, Op. 7	Hector Berlioz	34%
1910-1981	American	Adagio for Strings, Op. 11Violin Concerto, Op. 14	Samuel Barber	31%
1659-1695	English	Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626The Fairy-Queen, Z. 629	Henry Purcell	30%
1833-1887	Russian	Prince Igor: Polovtsian DancesIn the Steppes of Central Asia	Alexander Borodin	27%
1525-1594	Italian	Missa Papae MarcelliAve Regina Caelorum	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	27%
1854-1928	Czech	The Cunning Little VixenKáťa Kabanová	Leos Janácek	26%
1824-1896	Austrian	Symphony No. 8 in C minorMasses Nos. 1-3	Anton Bruckner	25%
1874-1951	Austrian-American	Moses und AronVerklärte Nacht, Op. 4	Arnold Schoenberg	25%
1845-1924	French	Après un rêve, Op. 7 No.1Sicilienne, Op. 78	Gabriel Fauré	25%
1872-1958	British	The Pilgrim's ProgressThe Wasps	Ralph Vaughan Williams	25%
1885-1935	Austrian	WozzeckKammerkonzert	Alban Berg	23%
1786-1826	German	Der FreischützEuryanthe, J. 291	Carl Maria von Weber	23%
1818-1893	French	FaustMesse brève No. 7	Charles Gounod	23%
1685-1757	Italian	Keyboard Sonatas, K.1-555Stabat Mater	Domenico Scarlatti	23%
1681-1767	German	TafelmusikTrumpet Concerto, TWV. 51:D7	Georg Philipp Telemann	23%
1804-1857	Russian	Ruslan and LyudmilaA Life for the Tsar	Mikhail Glinka	23%
1801-1835	Italian	Norma: Casta DivaIl pirata	Vincenzo Bellini	23%
1872-1915	Russian	The Poem of EcstasyPiano Concerto in F-sharp Minor	Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin	22%
1874-1954	American	The Unanswered QuestionThree Places in New England	Charles Ives	22%
1797-1848	Italian	L'elisir d'amoreDon Pasquale	Gaetano Donizetti	22%
1908-1992	French	Quatuor pour la fin du tempsDes Canyons aux étoiles	Olivier Messiaen	22%
1879-1936	Italian	Pini di Roma, P. 141Feste romane	Ottorino Respighi	22%
1653-1713	Italian	12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6Christmas Concerto, Op. 6 No. 8	Archangelo Corelli	20%
1865-1931	Danish	Symphony No. 4, Op.27 FS. 60Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57	Carl Nielsen	20%
1714-1787	Bohemian	Orfeo ed EuridiceIphigénie en Tauride	Christoph Willibald Gluck	20%
1632-1687	Italian-French	Armide, LWV. 71Benedictus Dominus, LWV. 64/2	Jean-Baptiste Lully	20%
1842-1912	French	Thaïs: MéditationManon	Jules Massenet	20%
1876-1946	Spanish	Noches en los jardines de EspañaEl amor brujo	Manuel de Falla	20%
1683-1764	French	PlatéeLa princesse de Navarre	Jean-Philippe Rameau	19%
1899-1963	French	Trois mouvements perpétuelsDialogues des Carmélites, FP. 159	Francis Poulenc	18%
1098-1179	German	Ordo VirtutumSymphonia	Hildegard von Bingen	18%
1505-1585	English	Spem in aliumLamentations of Jeremiah	Thomas Tallis	18%
1539-1623	English	Mass for Five Voices: Agnus DeiThe Battell, T. 441	William Byrd	18%
1822-1890	French	Sonata in A majorPiano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 7	César Franck	17%
1895-1963	German	Symphony: Mathis der MalerLudus Tonalis	Paul Hindemith	17%
1637-1707	Danish	Jesu, meines Lebens LebenMembra Jesu Nostri	Dietrich Buxtehude	15%
1865-1936	Russian	Symphony No. 5 "Heroic"Symphony No. 3 "Slavyanskaya"	Alexander Glazunov	14%
1883-1945	Austrian	Passacaglia, Op. 1Concerto for Nine Instruments	Anton Webern	14%
1668-1733	French	Leçons de ténèbresPièces de Clavecin	Francois Couperin	13%
1300-1377	French	Messe de Nostre Dame"Ma fin est mon commencement"	Guillaume de Machaut	13%
1825-1899	Austrian	Frühlingsstimmen, Op. 410Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437	Johann Strauss II	13%
1902-1983	British	Belshazzar's FeastSpitfire Prelude and Fugue	William Walton	13%
1710-1736	Italian	La serva padronaMarian Vespers	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	12%
c.1440-1521	French/Franco-Flemish	Missa de Beata VirgineMissa Pange Lingua	Josquin Des Prez	11%
1892-1974	French	La Création du monde, Op. 81aLe Bœuf sur le toit, Op. 58	Darius Milhaud	10%
1791-1864	German	Les HuguenotsRobert le diable	Giacomo Meyerbeer	10%
1714-1788	German	Solfeggietto, H. 220Sonata for Solo Flute in A minor	Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	9%
1100s-1200s	(French)	SederuntViderunt Omnes	Pérotin	9%
1585-1672	German	Psalmen Davids, SWV 22–47Cantiones sacræ, Op. 4	Heinrich Schütz	8%
1563-1626	English	Lachrimæ, or Seaven TearesThe Frog Galliard	John Dowland	8%
1554/1557-1612	Italian	Sonata pian' e forte, Ch. 175Canzon per sonar primi toni à 8	Giovanni Gabrieli	7%
1400-1474	French	Nuper rosarum floresMissa L'homme armé	Guillaume Dufay	7%
1860-1903	Austrian	Italian SerenadeMörike-Lieder: Im Frühling	Hugo Wolf	7%
(1135)-1201	(French)	Magnus LiberMesse du Jour dë Noel	Léonin	7%
1566-1613	Italian	Madrigals, Book 6Tenebrae Responsoria	Don Carlo Gesualdo	6%
1532-1594	Franco-Flemish	Psalmi Davidis PoenitentialesLagrime di San Pietro	Roland de Lassus	5%
1549-1611	Spanish	O magnum mysteriumOfficium Defunctorum	Tomás Luis de Victoria	5%
1583-1625	English	Hosanna to the Son of DavidThe Silver Swan	Orlando Gibbons	4%

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