Mozart ... or Beethoven?

Which composer wrote each of the following classical works - Mozart or Beethoven?

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1. Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

Everyone knows it when they hear it - much to Salieri's irritation.

2. Für Elise

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

A charming little piano piece beloved by amateurs.

3. Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

Mozart's last opera, which had its premiere just two months before the composer's death.

4. Requiem in D minor

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

Unfinished at the time of Mozart's death, it was completed by his student Süssmayr.

5. Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"

Beethoven ✓

Mozart ✓

Mozart's last great symphony, composed in 1788.

6. Missa Solemnis

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

Composed around the same time as his more famous 9th Symphony.

7. Ein musikalischer Spaß (A Musical Joke)

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

A ridiculous piece, full of deliberate musical mistakes and faux-pas.

8. Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

The grandest and most large-scale of Beethoven's five piano concertos.

9. Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

So-called because of its musical depictions of nature.

10. Große Fuge

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

Described in an 1826 review as "incomprehensible" and "a confusion of Babel."

11. Egmont Overture

Beethoven ✓

Mozart ✓

Part of a set of incidental music for a play by German writer Goethe.

12. Triple Concerto

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

Written for three solo instruments (violin, cello and piano) with orchestra.

13. Clarinet Concerto

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

Beethoven wrote piano concertos, and one for violin, but none for clarinet.

14. Ave verum corpus

Beethoven ✓

Mozart ✓

A lovely choral motet, composed in 1791.

15. Piano Sonata in C sharp minor "Moonlight"

Mozart ✓

Beethoven ✓

One of Beethoven's most recognizable piano works, with its shimmering opening.

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