| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $100: Although the mystery lives on, experts agree it's very unlikely that Antonio Salieri killed this prolific composer Mozart |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: This "5th Symphony" composer was quite particular about his morning coffee; he used exactly 60 beans to ensure a proper cup of joe Beethoven |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $300: Georges Bizet died three months after the 1875 premiere of this scandalous opera so he never knew of its enduring success Carmen |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: Originally composed as a ballet, Maurice Ravel's "Boléro" is best known as the sexy theme of this film starring Dudley Moore & Bo Derek 10 |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $500: When he conducted, this "Swan Lake" composer held his chin with one hand because he feared that his head might fall off Tchaikovsky |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS $400: From 1967 to 2006 composer Pierre Boulez took home 26 of these awards, including 6 for best classical album Grammys |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: In 1802 he described the humiliation he felt when someone next to him "heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing" Beethoven |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: His 1884 "Holberg Suite" was written to honor the bicentennial of the birth of Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg (Edvard) Grieg |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: A proud Czech, Smetana wrote of "Brandenburgers In" this region & a work depicting the region's "Meadows And Forests" Bohemia |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: This Russian composer dipped into the heritage of neighboring lands with his "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: To become director of the Vienna court opera in 1897, this Austrian converted from Judaism to Catholicism (Gustav) Mahler |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | THE PULITZER PRIZE AT 100 $2000: The music prize went to composers of classical music until 1997, when he won for his jazz-tinged "Blood on the Fields" (Wynton) Marsalis |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | OUTSIDE THE BACHS $400: Non-Bach German classical composers include this 19th century couple, Clara & Robert the Schumanns |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: In the years preceding his 1827 death, he carried a slate on which people could write any remarks addressed to him Beethoven |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: Referring to his first "Pomp And Circumstance" march, he said, "I've got a tune that will... knock 'em flat!" Sir Edward Elgar |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: The first part of his "Symphonie fantastique" was originally a part of a piece he had written as a youngster Hector Berlioz |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: The first Czech composer to gain world renown, around 1878 he composed the "Slavonic Dance" heard here Antonín Dvořák |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: This Russian piano master wrote his last major work, "Symphonic Dances", in 1940, 3 years before his death in the USA Rachmaninoff |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $400: Theodore Dubois succeeded 2 great composers in this job, Cesar Franck at one church & Camille Saint-Saens at another organist |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: The Furies scene in an Orpheus ballet was part of Gluck's period of "Sturm und" this Drang |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: In 1622 Thomas Tomkins published a set of these secular songs, some of the fa-la-la-last great ones madrigals |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: Johann Pachelbel may have played this piece of his, still a favorite of brides & grooms, at the wedding of J.S. Bach's brother "Canon in D" |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: This 19th century composer's "Spring" symphony shows no signs of the mental illness that later overcame him (Robert) Schumann |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: This British composer of "Over The Hills And Far Away" was of German parentage, & "Frederick" was originally "Fritz" Delius |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: His "Heroic" Period, from about 1803 to 1812, produced his "Eroica" Symphony Beethoven |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: One of Verdi's first masterpieces was this Shakespearean opera with an intense sleepwalking scene Macbeth |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: Charles Gounod's mother thought he might become a priest, & one of his best-known works is this setting of a Catholic prayer Ave Maria |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: He was 24 years older than his friend Mozart, but outlived him by almost 20 years Franz Joseph Haydn |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Juilliard School.) The string quartet is a stripped down, personal expression of a composer's feelings; Debussy wrote only one, but it's the only work that he gave one of these numbers an opus |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | COMPOSERS GO TO THE MOVIES $400: Elmer Bernstein of "The Magnificent Seven" fame was known as Bernstein west; this classical giant was Bernstein east Leonard |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: The 46 chorales in his "Little Organ Book" were written for various feast days of the church year (Johann Sebastian) Bach |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: While with George Sand on Majorca, he began showing symptoms of what is believed to be tuberculosis Chopin |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1,200 (Daily Double): Many of this 19th c. composer's great works were written in a small cabin on the edge of a fjord at Lofthus Edvard Grieg |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: This French composer's "The Carnival of the Animals" was written to make fun of some friends Saint-Saëns |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: This composer of Armenian heritage won a 1959 Lenin prize for his ballet "Spartacus" Khachaturian |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: For several years, his friend Karl Amenda was one of the few people who knew about his increasing deafness Beethoven |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: On March 3, 1875 his "Carmen" premiered in Paris & he was decorated with the French Legion of Honor Bizet |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1892 to 1895 he headed NYC's National Conservatory of Music; he returned to Bohemia due to homesickness (Antonin) Dvorák |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: In 1762 6-year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & his sister performed for this Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: His wife Clara was one of the finest concert pianists of her time & later taught at the conservatory in Frankfurt Schumann |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: His 6 Brandenburg Concertos were so-named for their dedication to the Margrave of Brandenburg J.S. Bach |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: When his great-grandfather moved to Norway, he switched the "E" & "I" in the spelling of the last name (Edvard) Grieg |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: This "Amahl and the Night Visitors" composer wrote his first opera, "The Death of Pierrot", at age 11 Gian Carlo Menotti |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: This Austrian, who was born a Jew, wrote his "Resurrection" symphony before he converted to Roman Catholicism Mahler |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: He renewed his ties to his native land by writing his "Hungarian Coronation Mass" in 1867 Liszt |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | EUROPEAN COMPOSERS $2000: In 1838 Paganini sent this "Symphonie Fantastique" composer 20,000 francs to further his career Berlioz |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: Born in Cologne, this "Tales of Hoffman" composer became a French citizen in 1860 Offenbach |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: This composer's daughter Cosima married Hans von Bulow in 1857 & Richard Wagner in 1870 Franz Liszt |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew walks up the nave of the Marienkirche in Lubeck, Germany.) In 1705 this 20-year-old composer walked 200 miles to hear Dietrich Buxtehude play organ at Lubeck's Marienkirche J(ohann) S(ebastian) Bach |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: In 1931 this "Pomp"ous English composer was made a baronet (Sir Edward) Elgar |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1726 this German composer became a naturalized British subject (George Frideric) Handel |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: As published, his "Eroica" symphony was dedicated to his patron Prince Lobkowitz Beethoven |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: He wrote "William Tell" at age 37, but no other operas during the remaining 39 years of his life (Gioacchino) Rossini |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: In his 20s this "New World" symphony composer played viola in the Czech nat'l theater under Smetana Dvorak |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: Around 1813 he set Goethe's "Gretchen am Spinnrade" to music Franz Schubert |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2,800 (Daily Double): His family was Jewish but his father became a Protestant & added Bartholdy to the last name Felix Mendelssohn |
| #4656, aired 2004-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: Around 1915 Debussy composed 12 etudes in memory of this Polish-French composer Chopin |
| #4656, aired 2004-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: Beethoven's father tried to promote him as a child prodigy, like this Salzburg-born genius Mozart |
| #4656, aired 2004-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: "The Tender Land" is a 1954 opera by this "Appalachian Spring" composer Copland |
| #4656, aired 2004-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: This Austrian composer's Symphony No. 8 is known as the "Symphony of a Thousand" (Gustav) Mahler |
| #4656, aired 2004-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: He supervised a 1907 phonograph recording of his own "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: He composed "The Well-Tempered Clavier" while employed as a conductor at the court of Anhalt-Cothen Johann Sebastian Bach |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: Many think that Josephine von Brunswick was the recipient of his "Immortal Beloved" letter Beethoven |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: Part of this composer's "Requiem" is heard here Mozart |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: "From the New World" was his 9th symphony, but it's also known as his 5th since they were renumbered later Dvorak |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: A 1901 piano concerto by this Russian-born composer & virtuoso is heard here Rachmaninoff |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: His "1812 Overture" commemorates Napoleon's 1812 defeat in Russia Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: Vivaldi's Opus 8 contains a cycle of violin concerti collectively called this The Four Seasons |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: His "Pagliacci" was based on an incident that had taken place in a Calabrian village Ruggero Leoncavallo |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Frederick Beale was the first to use "recital" to mean a piano concert referring to one by this Hungarian Franz Liszt |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: In 1897 he became the music director of the Vienna Court Opera & a Catholic (he converted from Judaism) Gustav Mahler |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | COMPOSERS $400: Of the 3 B's of classical music, the one born last Johannes Brahms |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: King George enjoyed this man's "Water Music" so much during a 1717 party that he ordered it played 3 times that day Handel |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: This "Rite of Spring" composer accepted such commissions as a dance for circus elephants Igor Stravinsky |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: Both he & his father Leopold were concertmasters for the archbishop of Salzburg Mozart |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: He was born in Ciboure, France, near the Spanish border; thus, the Spanish influence in such works as "Bolero" Maurice Ravel |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: When his father died, he moved to Ohrdruf to live & study the organ with his brother Johann Christoph J.S. Bach |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: On the eve of the premiere of "Carmen", he was named a chevalier of the Legion of Honor Georges Bizet |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: It was musicographer Ludwing Von Kochel who assigned the "K" numbers to this man's musical works W.A. Mozart |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: Upon his death, this Hungarian pianist's manuscripts passed to the Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein Franz Liszt |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In April, 1759, this German-born composer was buried in Westminster Abbey Handel |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1933 this "Sabre Dance" composer married fellow Russian composer Nina Makarova Aram Khatchatourian |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $100: Baptized Joannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, he commonly called himself Wolfgang Amade Mozart |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: He dedicated his "Moonlight Sonata" to the countess Giulietta Guicciardi Beethoven |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $300: His "1812 Overture" premiered in Moscow in 1882--not 1812 Tchaikovsky |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: This "Aida" composer was a deputy in the first Italian parliament in Turin in 1860 Giuseppe Verdi |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $500: He composed several works based on poems by Paul Verlaine, including "Ariettes Oubliees" & "Clair De Lune" Claude Debussy |
| #3473, aired 1999-10-13 | CONTEMPORARIES $800 (Daily Double): The 2 of the 3 Bs among classical composers that Ben Franklin could have met Bach & Beethoven |
| #3455, aired 1999-09-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: A town in Saskatchewan is named for this "Don Giovanni" composer & its streets for other famous composers W.A. Mozart |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: His "William Tell" was to have been the first of 5 operas for the Paris Opera but his contract was set aside G. Rossini |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: In Weimar he wrote a set of organ chorales for his "Orgelbuchlein", or "Little Organ Book" J.S. Bach |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: In 1939 the Helsinki Music Institute changed its name to honor this famed graduate Jean Sibelius |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: His 1905 composition "La Mer" was inspired by the ideas of painters J.M.W. Turner & Claude Monet Claude Debussy |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1907 he became professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest Bela Bartok |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: This "Lullaby" composer was instrumental in getting Dvorak's "Moravian Duets" published Johannes Brahms |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: 3 of his most famous works, "Rigoletto", "Il Trovatore" & "La Traviata", were published between 1851-1853 Giuseppe Verdi |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: This "Rite Of Spring" composer was commissioned to write the "Circus Polka" to be danced by circus elephants Igor Stravinsky |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: When this composer's opera "La boheme" premiered in Turin, Arturo Toscanini conducted the orchestra Giacomo Puccini |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: From 1835 to 1863 this "Symphonie Fantastique" composer wrote music criticism for "Journal des Debats" ("Journal of Debates") Hector Berlioz |
| #3052, aired 1997-12-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: His period of work between "Eroica" & Symphony No. 8 is known as his heroic decade Ludwig van Beethoven |
| #3052, aired 1997-12-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: A Freemason, this Austrian sprinkled references to Masonry in his "Masonic Cantata" & "The Magic Flute" Wolfgang A. Mozart |
| #3052, aired 1997-12-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: When his "Madama Butterfly" opened at La Scala in 1904, it was greeted with hisses Giacomo Puccini |
| #3052, aired 1997-12-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: For the 1910 season, Sergei Diaghilev commissioned him to score a ballet based on "The Firebird" Igor Stravinsky |
| #3052, aired 1997-12-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: This Venetian's first works date from the early 18th C. during his years as violin master of a girls' orphanage Antonio Vivaldi |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | COMPOSERS $600: Gunther Schuller is known for mixing classical style with this American music form: way "cool" Jazz |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: His father was vice kappellmeister to the court of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg W.A. Mozart |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: Although he was known as "The Waltz King", his father also composed waltzes -- 152 of them Johann Strauss |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: Before becoming director of the N.Y. Philharmonic in 1958, he was music director of the NYC Center Orchestra Leonard Bernstein |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: A street in Budapest is named for this Hungarian composer who moved to the U.S. in 1940 Bela Bartok |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1945 Heitor Villa-Lobos founded this South American country's academy of music Brazil |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: He wrote the "1812 Overture" to commemorate Napoleon's retreat from Moscow Peter I. Tchaikovsky |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: In 1713 this oratorio composer wrote a "Birthday Ode for Queen Anne" George Frideric Handel |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: His symphony "From The New World" premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1893 Antonin Dvorak |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: This Austrian's "Quintet In A Major" is better known as "Die Forelle" or "Trout Quintet" Franz Schubert |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: Completed in the 1930s, this Hungarian's work "Mikrokosmos" consists of 153 piano pieces for children Bela Bartok |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: This "Messiah" composer's "Rinaldo" was the first Italian opera written for the London stage George Frideric Handel |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: After the death of his father in 1695, he went to live & study with his brother, Johann Christoph Johann Sebastian Bach |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: After his breakup with novelist George Sand in 1847, he composed no more works Frederic Chopin |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: "Clair de Lune", the 3rd movement of this French composer's' "Suite Bergamasque", is often played separately Claude Debussy |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: "My Musical Life" was the 1909 memoir of this "Scheherazade" composer Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: Although a pupil of Joseph Haydn, this "Eroica" composer said he never learned anything from him Beethoven |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: Instruction books he wrote for his family included "The Little Organ Book" & "The Well-Tempered Clavier" J.S. Bach |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: His final opera, "William Tell", was to be the first of 5 written for the Paris Opera Rossini |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: He gave his last public performance Nov. 16, 1848, at a London benefit for Polish refugees Chopin |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: Born in Bohemia in 1824, he was the founder of the Czech National School of Music Bedrich Smetana |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $100: This "Messiah" composer's first job was as a church organist in Halle, Germany, at age 17 Georg Handel |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: "Variations on a Theme by Haydn" was this "lullaby" composer's first major work for full orchestra Johannes Brahms |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $300: In 1977, his "Immortal Beloved" was identified as Antonie Brentano, wife of a merchant Beethoven |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: This father-in-law of Richard Wagner died July 31, 1886, during the Wagner festival at Bayreuth Franz Liszt |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $500: He composed his "Leningrad Symphony" during the World War II siege of Leningrad Dmitri Shostakovich |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: His grandfather, also named Ludwig, was a Flemish immigrant who moved to Bonn in 1733 Beethoven |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: His baptismal names were Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: In the 1830s Paris critics called this Polish-born composer the "Ariel of the Piano" Chopin |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: He based his most celebrated piece, "Clair de Lune", on a poem by Paul Verlaine Debussy |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1945 this American won the Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Spring" (Aaron) Copland |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: In 1770 the pope made this "Magic Flute" composer a knight of the Golden Spur Mozart |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: 19th c. composer Mikhail Glinka was called the father of this country's music by his successors Russia |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: In 1723 this Baroque composer was appointed choir leader at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig (Johann Sebastian) Bach |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: This composer collaborated with Sergei Diaghilev in producing "The Firebird" in Paris Igor Stravinsky |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1945 he founded the Brazilian Academy of Music Villa-Lobos |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: After hearing the variations on "Don Giovanni", Robert Schumann called this Polish composer "a genius" Chopin |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: In 1874 he moved into his Bayreuth home, Wahnfried, which means "peace from illusion" Wagner |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: He wrote his Wedding March, from music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 5 years after his own wedding Mendelssohn |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: The Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, inspired many of his works, including "The Swan of Tuonela" (Jean) Sibelius |
| #2357, aired 1994-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2,000 (Daily Double): This Frenchman dedicated his 1908 "Children's Corner" suite to his daughter Claude-Emma Debussy |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: By the time he completed his ninth symphony in 1824, this composer was totally deaf Beethoven |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: Although Mozart is not buried at St. Sebastian's Church in this city, his wife & father are Salzburg |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: After a less than enthusiastic opening night, he revised "Madama Butterfly" Puccini |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: Selections in his "Peer Gynt" suite include "Anitra's Dance", "Morning" & "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (Edvard) Grieg |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1907 he was appointed professor of piano at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music Béla Bartók |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: His father, a Salzburg teacher, wrote a treatise on the fundamental principles of violin playing W.A. Mozart |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: In 1859 this "Swan Lake" composer graduated from the St. Petersburg School of Jurisprudence Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: His "Water Music" was performed during an aquatic fete held by King George I on the Thames July 17, 1717 G.F. Handel |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: His "Fingal's Cave" is also known as the "Hebrides Overture" Felix Mendelssohn |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1855 this "Orpheus in the Underworld" composer opened his own theater, the Bouffes Parisiens Jacques Offenbach |
| #2023, aired 1993-05-26 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: In 1679 Henry Purcell succeeded John Blow as organist of this London abbey Westminster Abbey |
| #2023, aired 1993-05-26 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: Though deaf, he conducted the 1824 premiere of his choral Ninth Symphony Beethoven |
| #2023, aired 1993-05-26 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: Before he was 10, this Austrian had played for Maria Theresa & France's Louis XV Mozart |
| #2023, aired 1993-05-26 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: In 1985 the world celebrated the 300th birthday of this German master of counterpoint Bach |
| #2023, aired 1993-05-26 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: For the most part he forbade performances of "The Carnival of the Animals" during his lifetime Camille Saint-Saëns |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: His 1868 "German Requiem" shouldn't put you to sleep--it's not a lullaby Brahms |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: Prokofiev turned this Tolstoy book into a very long 5-act opera War and Peace |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: Ravel & Rimsky-Korsakov based works on this "Arabian Nights" storyteller Scheherazade |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: In 1759 this German organist & "Water Music" composer was buried in Westminster Abbey Handel |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: His trip to the U.S. inspired the "American" string quartet as well as the "New World" symphony Dvorák |
| #1333, aired 1990-05-23 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $4,600 (Daily Double): Modern composer who was called the world's outstanding specialist on Hungarian folk music Bela Bartok |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: Russian Igor Stravinsky became a French citizen in 1934 & a citizen of this country in 1945 United States |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: As a 19-year-old, this Viennese "Waltz King" formed an orchestra that soon rivaled his father's (Johann) Strauss (II) |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: Of Bach, Beethoven, or Brahms, the one who was a Baroque composer Bach |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: The Rondo in C Minor, 1st opus of this great Polish composer, was published when he was only 15 (Frederic) Chopin |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: The "Rimsky" in Rimsky-Korsakov's name is Russian for this Italian city Rome |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: He was born under the sign of Pisces, the fish, so it's not surprising he wrote "Water Music" Handel |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: One of the "Three B's" himself, he was an ardent admirer of the other two Brahms |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: It's said the pathetic life of this Russian composer is the real subject of his "Pathetique" symphony Tchaikovsky |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: While writing "Tannhauser", he also wrote a funeral cantata for C.M. von Weber who'd been dead 18 years Wagner |
| #172, aired 1985-05-07 | COMPOSERS $1000: Brahms & Chopin were 2 primary composers of this period which followed the classical the Romantic period |
