You Gotta Know - 20th Century Composers

Imaginary Landscape No. 4

Porgy and Bess

Soviet Russian, lived during the second world war

The Prodigal's Son

Appalachian spring

Second Piano Concerto

Symphony of Psalms

The Pilgrim's Progress

Student of Schoenberg, considered a Dada Composer, invented prepared piano

La Valse

American, studied under Boulanger

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

The Rite of Spring

4'33"

Thirteenth Symphony (Babi Yar, condemned antisemitism)

The Nose

Russian, worked for Diaghilev and Ballets Russes, died on same day as Stalin

Student of Faure, died because unsuccessful brain surgery

Hugh Drover

Third Symphony - Won Pulitzer Prize

Sir John in Love - Shakespearean Opera

Influenced by Wagner and Strauss, taught Berg and Webern

Pravda (criticized by Stalin)

Petrushka

Rhapsody in Blue

Fled Hungary for the US in 1940

Pavane for a Dead Princess

Billy the Kid

Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Music for the Theatre

El' Salon Mexico

Peter and the Wolf

Peter Grimes

First Symphony (Sea)

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Death in Venice

Studied under Rimsky-Korsakov, worked with Diaghilev and Auden

The Firebird

Three Places in New England

Of Thee I Sing - Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama

Transfigured Night

Third Symphony, Contains Fanfare for the Common Man

Seventh Symphony (Sinfonia Antarctica)

The Isle of the Dead - Symphonic Poem

"Rapsodie espagnole"

A Survivor from Warsaw

Agon

The Miraculous Mandarin

Swanee (Song sang by Al Jolson)

Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra

Pierrot Lunaire

From America, studied Music at Yale, found Insurance Sales more lucrative

War Requiem

From Austria Originally

Daphnis et Chloe

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (Song)

Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Twelfth Symphony (conciliatory symphony)

The Lark Ascending - Based on a George Meredith poem

The Wooden Prince

Second Symphony (London)

Mikrokosmos

Rodeo

Moved to Los Angeles in 1933 to flee Nazi Persecution

Fifth Symphony (conciliatory symphony)

Mother Goose

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Second Piano (Concord) Sonata - (With movements named from Hawthorne, Waldo Emerson, Alcott, David Thoreau

Died of Brain Tumor at age 38

Billy Bud (Opera version)

Lincoln Portrait

Twice Turned down the conductorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Third Symphony (Pastoral)

Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

Moses and Aron

Alexander Nevsky

Known as the UK's opera reviver

Re-orchestrated "Pictures at an Exhibition"

Organ Symphony

Bolero

The Love for Three Oranges

Classical (first of his seven symphonies)

The Rake's Progress

C-Sharp Minor Prelude

Seventh/Leningrad Symphony (conciliatory symphony)

The Turn of the Screw

What to Listen For in Music (Book)