 1685 – 1750  German  Baroque  “Brandenburg Concertos”  “Well-Tempered Clavier”

 1770 – 1827  German  Classical  “Moonlight Sonata”  “Ninth Symphony” – contains “Ode to Joy”

 1888 – 1989  American  “White Christmas”  “God Bless America”  “Puttin on the Ritz”  Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1968

 1900 – 1990  American  Modern  “Appalachian Spring”

 1857 – 1934  English  Romanticism  “Pomp & Circumstance”

 1898 – 1937  American  “I Got Rhythm”  “Rhapsody in Blue”  “An American in Paris”  1 st to win Pulitzer Prize in music 1931  Sister Ira wrote lyrics

 1685 – 1759  German  Baroque  “Messiah”  “Royal Fireworks Music”

 1732 – 1791  Austrian  Classical  “Surprise Symphony”

 1819 – 1910  American  “Battle Hymn of the Republic”

 1868 – 1917  American  “Mississippi Rag”  “Maple Leaf Rag”

 1779 – 1843  American  “Star Spangled Banner”

 1756 – 1791  Austrian  Classical  “The Marriage of Figaro”  “Don Giovanni”  “Jupiter Symphony”  “The Magic Flute”

 1858 – 1924  Italian  Romantic  “La Boheme”  “Tosca”  “Madame Butterfly”  “Turandot”

 1792 – 1868  Italian  Romantic  “William Tell”  “Barber of Seville”  “Cinderella”

 1854 – 1932  American  Known as the “March King”  Leader of the U.S. Marine Corps Band  “Washington Post March”  “The Stars & Stripes Forever”

 1825 – 1899  Austrian  The younger Johann Strauss  Known as the “Waltz King”  “Blue Danube Waltz”

 1882 – 1971  American (Russian born)  Modern  “Rite of Spring”  Operas & ballets

 1840 – 1893  Russian  Romantic  “Swan Lake” – ballet  “1812 Overture”  “The Nutcracker” – ballet  “Sleeping Beauty” - ballet

 1813 – 1901  Italian  Foremost Italian composer of opera  “Aida”  “Rigoletto”  “La Traviata”

 1677 – 1741  Italian  Baroque  “The Four Seasons”

 1813 – 1883  German  Romantic  “Ring of the Nibelungen”  “The Flying Dutchman”

 1948 – present  English  “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”  “Jesus Christ Superstar”  “Cats”  “Phantom of the Opera”  “Evita”

 Sir William Schwenck Gilbert & Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan  English  “The Pirates of Penzance”  “H. M. S. Pinafore”

 Richard Rodgers – composer  Oscar Hammerstein II – lyricist  American  “The Sound of Music”  “Oklahoma”  “South Pacific”  “The King and I”