Statistics for Notable Composers of the Classical Era

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Nationality	Birth	Death	Hint/Notable Work	Answer	% Correct
Italian	1750	1825	Made famous by a possibly fictitious rivalry with Mozart.	Antonio Salieri	100%
German	1714	1788	One of many sons of a very famous Baroque composer.	Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach	100%
Austrian	1732	1809	Surprise Symphony (No. 94)	Franz Joseph Haydn	100%
German	1735	1782	Another son of a very famous Baroque composer	Johann Christian Bach	100%
German	1770	1827	Eroica Symphony (No. 3)	Ludwig van Beethoven	100%
Austrian	1737	1806	Younger brother of the composer of the Surprise Symphony	Michael Haydn	100%
Austrian	1756	1791	The Magic Flute	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	100%
Bohemian	1714	1787	Orfeo ed Euridice	Christoph Wilibald Gluck	80%
Italian	1752	1832	Wrote many early works for the piano, sometimes called “the father of the piano.”	Muzio Clementi	60%
German	1723	1787	Renowned player of the viola da gamba. Court composer of Dresden before moving to London where he was employed by Queen Charlotte. A very "able" composer.	Carl Friedrich Abel	40%
Irish	1782	1837	Famous composer of piano music, was the first to use the term Nocturne as a title for a piano work.	John Field	40%
Italian	1743	1805	Italian born composer who spent much of his career in Spain. Well know for writing string quartets and cello concertos.	Luigi Boccherini	40%
Austrian	1781	1858	Beethoven wrote a famous set of variations on a theme written by this composer.	Anton Diabelli	20%
Czech	1770	1836	Made many early contributions to the Wind Quintet literature, teacher of Liszt, Berlioz, and Franck	Anton Reicha	20%
Austrian	1757	1831	Also known as a music publisher and a piano maker.	Ignaz Pleyel	20%
Czech	1760	1812	One of the first internationally famous piano virtuosos. Wrote forward-looking music with some early Romantic traits.	Johann Ladislaus Dussek	20%
Austrian	1778	1837	Contemporary and friend of Beethoven and Schubert	Johann Nepomuk Hummel	20%
Bohemian	1717	1757	Founded the Mannheim school of symphonists.	Johann Stamitz	20%
German	1756	1792	Moved to Sweden at the age of 21. Sometimes referred to as the Swedish Mozart	Joseph Martin Kraus	20%
Italian	1760	1842	Beethoven considered him the greatest living composer of his era. Known for writing operas and sacred music.	Luigi Cherubini	20%
English	1711	1779	One of the foremost English composers of church music and symphonies.	William Boyce	20%
Austrian	1739	1799	Wrote a number of programmatic symphonies based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.	Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf	0%