Musical Nicknames and Superlatives

ABCs of Opera A i d a , B o -

American Dvorák’s ˘ Quartet in

Auber’s Most Popular Over-

heme , Carmen

F (opus 96)—for two violins,

ture Masaniello

Adam’s Most Popular Ballet

Aus der Neuen Welt ( G e r- Giselle

viola, and cello

m a n — F r o m t h e N ew Adieu Chopin’s Polonaise in

American Symphony Orches-

World)—Dvorák’s ˘ Ninth B-flat minor

tras of Greatest Distinc-

Symphony Aegyptische Die Aegyptische

tion Boston Symphony,

Aus Ital Aus Italien (German- Helena (German—The Egyp-

New York Philharmonic, Phil-

From Italy)—symphonic tian Helen)—Richard

adelphia Orchestra, Chicago

poem by Richard Strauss Strauss’s music drama

Symphony, Cleveland Or-

Aus meinem Au s m e i n e m Aeolian Symphony Rachman-

chestra, St Louis Symphony,

Leben (German—From My inoff’s Symphony No 3 in A

Los Angeles Philharmonic,

Life)—Smetana’s autobio- minor

San Francisco Symphony, Se-

graphical String Quartet No 1 Africaine L’ A f r i c a i n e

attle Symphony

in E minor (French—The African

An Donau An der schönen

Australian composers Arthur Girl)—Meyerbeer opera

blauen Donau (German—On

the beautiful blue Danube)—

L Benjamin, Peggy Glanville-

African-American Arranger-

H i c k s , P e r cy A l d r i d g e Composer-Conductor Eva

waltz by Johann Strauss, Jr

Grainger Jessye

And This Is My Beloved

Australian Duo c l a s s i c a l Age of Anxiety B e r n s t e i n ’s

Borodin’s Nocturne from his

composers Percy Grainger Symphony No 2

String Quartet No 2

Anniversary Waltz Ivanovici’s

and Arthur Benjamin

Albeniz’s Most Popular Piano

Austrian composers A l b a n Piece Iberia

fanfare titled Danube Waves

Antar R i m s ky - Ko r s a k ov ’s

Berg, Anton Bruckner, Franz

Albinoni’s Most Popular

Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Piece Adagio for Strings

Symphony No 2

Amadeus Mozart, Arnold and Organ

Antheil’s Most Popular Work

Ballet Mecarique

Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, the Strauss family (Johann,

Al combate corred bayameses

Johann, Jr, the two Josephs) (Spanish—Swift in combat,

Apotheosis of the Dance

Austrian Waltz Kings J o s e f men of Bayamo)—Cuban na-

Beethoven’s Symphony No 7

(Franz Karl)—Lanner and Jo- tional anthem

Appassionata Beethoven’s Pi-

ano Sonata No 23 in F minor

hann Strauss, Jr

Alfven’s Most Popular Over-

Babi Yar Symphony No 13 of ture M i d s o m m e r v a k a

(opus 57)—nicknamed for its

Shostakovich inspired by po- (Swedish—Midsummer-

impassioned mood

ems of Yevtushenko Night Vigil)

Archduke Beethoven’s Trio in

B minor (opus 97)—dedi-

Bach’s Most Popular Cha-

All Men are Brothers S y m -

conne Partita in D minor phony No 11 by Alan Hov-

cated to Archduke Rudolph

for Unaccompanied Violin haness

Arctic Vassilenko’s Fourth

Symphony

Bach’s Most Popular Orches-

Alpine Alpine Symphony (sym-

tral Works 6 Brandenburg phonic poem by Richard

Arensky’s Most Popular Bal-

Concerti Strauss—Eine Alpensinfonie)

let Egyptian Night

Argentinian Composers A l -

Bach’s Most Popular Piece

Alpine Waterfall Saint-Saëns

Air for the G string Piano Concerto No 3 in E flat

berto Ginastera, Juan Guiter-

rez, Roberto Morillo, Alberto

Bach’s Most Popular Work

Toccata and Fugue in D minor Alsatian musicians c o n d u c -

major

Williams

Ariadne Ariadne auf Naxos

Balfe’s Most Popular Opera

tor Charles Munch; organists

The Bohemian Girl Edvard Nies-Berger and Al-

(German—Ariadne on

Ballo Un Ballo in Maschera bert Schweitzer; composer

Naxos)—one-act opera by

(Italian—A Masked Ball)— Émile Waldteufel

Richard Strauss

three-act opera by Verdi Amahl Amahl and the Night

Aristocrat of Orchestras The

Banditenstreiche (German— Visitors (Menotti opera)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Jolly Robbers)—von Suppé Amelia Amelia Goes to the

Arlésienne L’Arlésienne Suite

overture Ball (Menotti one-act comic

No 1 and Suite No 2 by Bizet

Barber B a r b e r o f S ev i l l e opera)

Arne’s Most Popular Orato-

rio Judith

(Rossini opera)

Musical Superlatives

Barber’s Most Popular Sym-

Berg’s Most Popular Opera

Black Pianist of the Century

phonic Work Adagio for

Andre Watts (1946– ) Strings

Lulu

Berlin Bach C a r l P h i l i p p

Black Soprano of the Century

Barbiere Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Leontyne Price (1927– ) (Italian—The Barber of

Emanuel Bach, also called the

Hamburg Bach

Seville)—opera by Rossini

Black Tenor of the Century

Berlioz’s Most Popular

Baritone of the Century D i -

Opera Damnation of Faust

Roland Hayes (1887–1976)

e t r i c h F i s c h e r- D i e s k a u

Berlioz’s Most Popular Sym-

Black Trumpeter of the Cen-

phonic Work S y m p h o n i e

tury Louis (Satchmo) Arm-

Bartók’s Most Popular Sym-

strong (1900–1971) phonic Work Concerto for

Fantastique

Blind Composer Joaquin Ro- Orchestra

Berlioz symphonies Sympho-

drigo born near Valencia, Bass of the Century F e o d o r

Spain, remembered for his Chailiapin (1873–1938)—

nie Fantastique and Sympho-

guitar Concerto Aranjuez George London (1920–1985)

nie Funèbre et Triomphale

Bernstein’s Most Popular Bal-

let Dybbuk

Bloch’s Most Popular Rhap-

basset-horn tenor clarinet

Bernstein’s Most Popular

sody Schelomo for cello and

Bassoonist of the Century

orchestra Sol Schoenbach of the Phila-

Overture Candide

Bluebeard’s Duke Bluebeards delphia Orchestra

best known Russian art song

Castle (Bartók’s one-act op- Bayang megiliw ( Ta ga l o g —

(see None But The Lonely

era) Land of the Morning)—Phil-

Heart )

Boccanegra S i m o n e B o c - ippine national anthem

Best of the Bachs Johann Se-

bastian Bach who fathered

canegra (three-act Verdi op-

Beethoven 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th,

Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann

era)

5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th

Boheme La Boheme (Puccini First, Second, Third (Ero-

Christina, Johann Christoph

opera) ica )—Fourth, Fifth, Sixth

Friedrich, Wilhelm Fried-

Bohemian composers A n t o - (Pastoral)—Seventh, Eighth,

mann; known collectively as

die Bäche—the Bachs

nin Dvorák, Leos˘ Janacek, ˘

Ninth (Choral)—symphonies

Gustav Mahler, Bedrich composed by Beethoven

Best of the Bonn Boys L u d -

wig van Beethoven, born in

Smetana, Josef Suk

Beethoven’s Most Popular

Bonn

Boieldieu’s Most Popular

Overture Caliph of Bagdad from Fidelio

Big Seven America’s leading

Boito’s Most Popular Opera Beethoven’s Most Popular

symphony orchestras—Bos-

Mefistofele Piano Concerto No 5 Em-

ton, Chicago, Cleveland, Los

Boris Boris Godunov (Mus- peror

Angeles, New York, Philadel-

phia, Pittsburgh Big Six America’s leading

sorgsky’s opera)

Beethoven’s Most Popular Borodin’s Most Popular

Piano Sonata No 14 Moon-

Opera Prince Igor light

symphony orchestras—Bos-

Brahms’ 4 B r a h m s ’s f o u r Song Adelaide

ton, Chicago, Cleveland, Los

Beethoven’s Most Popular

Angeles, New York, Philadel-

phia

symphonies

Beethoven’s Most Popular

Bird Haydn’s String Quartet in

Brahms’ Most Popular Over-

lure Academic Festival Beggar’s The Beggar’s Opera

Symphony No 5 in C minor

C (opus 33, no 3)

Birds The Birds (Respighi’s

Brahms’ Most Popular Sym-

(ballad opera by John Chris-

phony No 1 in C minor topher Pepusch with libretto

symphonic poem—Gli Uc-

Brandenburg Bach’s Bran- by John Gay)

celli )

denburg Concertos dedicated Belgian composers C h a r l e s

Bizet’s Most Popular Opera

to Duke Christian Ludwig of Bériot, César Franck, André

Carmen

Brandenburg, Germany Grétry, Henri Vieuxtemps

Bizet’s Most Popular Song

Brazilian composers A n t o - Belgian Quartet B e l g i u m ’s

Agnus Dei

nio Carlos Gomes, Mozart best-known classical compos-

Bizet’s Most Popular Work

Camargo Guarnieri, Heitor ers, ranked chronologically,

L’Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2

Villa-Lobos include Grétry, Vieuxtemps,

Black Conductor of the Cen-

Brazilian Trio Brazil’s three Franck, and Ysaÿe

tury Dean Dixon (1915–

best-known classical compos-

Bellini’s Most Popular Opera

ers-Antonio Carlos Gomes, Norma

Black Contralto of the Cen-

Alberto Nepomuceno, and Bells (see The Bells)

tury M a r i a n A n d e r s o n

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Bells of Zionice D vo r á k ’s ˘

Black Key C h o p i n ’s P i a n o

Britten’s Most Popular

Opera Peter Grimes Benvenuto Benvenuto Cellini,

Symphony No 1

Etude No 5 in G-flat major

Black Orchestra Leader of the

Britten’s Most Popular Work

Berlioz opera nicknamed

Young Person’s Guide to the Malvenuto by critics

Century C o u n t B a s i e

Orchestra

Musical Superlatives

Brooklyn composers A a r o n

Compliment B e e t h ove n ’s Copland, George and Ira Ger-

’Cello Symphony S y m p h o n y

String Quartet in G major shwin, Roger Sessions (see

No 2 by Taaffe Zwilic

Opus 18 No 2 New York composers)

Cenerentola La Cenerentola

(Italian—Cinderella)—

Composer-Bandmaster E d -

Bruch’s Most Popular Violin

win Franko Goldman; Ivan Concerto No 1 in G

Rossini opera

Ivanovici; John Philip Sousa Bruckner Conductor E u g e n

Chabrier’s Most Popular

Composer-Chemist A l ex - Jochum

Overture España

ander Borodin Bruckner’s 10 Bruckner’s ten

Chaconne Bach’s Partita No 2

in D minor for solo violin; or

symphonies comprising Die

Composer-Conductor J o - Nullte (The Zero)—and 1

hann Sebastian Bach; Hector through 9 including Roman-

its transcription for the guitar

Berlioz; Carlos Chávez; tische (Romantic, No 4)

o f S eg ov i a b y M a r c

Pincherle; or for piano by

Brahms, Busoni, Men-

Aaron Copland; Edward El-

Bruckner’s Most Popular

gar; Carlos Gomes; Morton Symphony No 4 Romantic

delssohn, Raff, or Schumann;

Gould; George Friedrich bup-bup-bup-bum Beethove-

or for orchestra by Hubay,

Handel; Ferdé Grofé; Howard nian kettle-drumming

Stokowski, or Wilhelmj

Hanson; Aram Khachaturian; Butterfly C h o p i n ’s P i a n o

Charpentier’s Most Popular

Franz Liszt; Gustav Mahler; Etude No 9 in G flat ; Puccini’s

Opera Louise

Felix Mendelssohn; Carl opera Madame Butterfly—a

Chausson’s Most Popular

Nielson; Oscar Straus; Rich- Japanese tragedy

Piece Poème for Violin and

ard Strauss; Franz von Suppé; Calife Le Calife de Bagdad

Orchestra

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky; (French—The Caliph of

Chavez’ Most Popular Sym-

Heitor Villa-Lobos; Carl Bagdad)—one-act opera by

phony Sinforria India

Maria von Weber; Richard Boieldieu

Cherubini’s Most Popular

Wagner California composers H e n r y

Overture Anacreon

Chilean composers Pedro Al-

Composer-Conductor-Cellist

Pablo Casals; Victor Herbert Calm Sea Calm Sea and Pros-

Cowell, Harry Partch

lende, Próspero Biquert, Do-

mingo Santa Cruz

Composer-Conductor-Critic

perous Voyage (Goethe’s

Hector Berlioz Fahrt - )—Beethoven’s choral Pedro Umberto Allende

Chilean First C h i l e ’s o u t -

Meeresstille und glückliche

standing classical composer

Composer-Conductor-Educa-

work with orchestra or Men-

tor Leonard Bernstein; delssohn’s concert overture

Chopin’s Most Popular Piano

Walter Damrosch; Howard Campanello Il Campanello di

Concerto No 1 in E minor

Hanson; Edward MacDowell; Notte (Italian—The Night

Choral Beethoven’s Symphony

André Previn Bell)—Donizetti opera

No 9 in D minor whose last

Composer-Conductor-Musi- Carpenter’s Most Popular

movement contains Schiller’s

cologist Hector Berlioz; Ballet Skyscrapers

Ode to Joy sung by chorus

Nicholas Slonimsky; Richard Cavalleria Cavelleria Rusti-

and soloists with full orches-

Wagner cana (Mascagni opera)

tral support

Choreographic Symphony

Composer-Conductor-Organ-

Cavalleria espanola M a s s -

ist-Pianist Camille Saint- enet’s verismo opera La Na-

Ravel’s name for his Daphnis

Saëns, Sir Charles Villiers varraise , also called Calvélle-

et Chloé ballet

Stanford, Sir Arthur S Sulli- ria espanola after Emma

Christmas s o b r i q u e t o f

van Calvé

Corelli’s Concerto Grosso

Opus 6 Number 8 , Rimsky-

Composer-Conductor-Pia-

Cav-Pag Cavalleria Rusticana

nist Beethoven, Bernstein, and I Pagliacci (Italian operas

Korsakov’s Christmas Eve

Britten, Damrosch, Dohna- frequently performed in suc-

opera, Bach’s Christmas Or-

ny i , Fo s s , G o t t s c h a l k , Celestial Gate Symphony No

atorio , Haydn’s Christmas

cession)

Symphony in D minor–No 26

also called Lamentatione

G r a i n g e r, L i s z t , M e n -

delssohn, Prokofiev, Rach- Cellini Benvenuto Cellini (op-

maninoff, Stravinsky, and era by Berlioz, nicknamed

6 by Alan Hovhaness

Clara Robert Schumann’s

VillaLobos Malvenuto by critics)

Symphony No 4 in D minor

Clarinetist of the Century

Benny Goodman (1909–

Composer-Conductor-Pianist-

Cellist of the Century Pa b l o

Statesman Ignacy Jan Pad- Casals (1876–1973)

Classical Prokofiev’s Sym-

erewski

Cellist-Conductor-Composer

phony No 1

Composer-Conductor-Pianist-

Violinist Georges Enesco; Cellist-Conductors B a r-

Pablo Casals

Clock Haydn’s Symphony No

Bedrich Smetana birolli, Casals, Herbert, Kin-

101 in D major

Columbia the Gem of the

Composer-Conductor-Pianist-

dler, Rostropovitch, Tosca-

Violinist Teacher Georges nini, Wallenstein

Ocean symphonic poem by

Charles Ives

Enesco

Musical Superlatives

Composer-Conductor-Violin-

Conductor-Organist E d -

d’Albert’s Most Popular

ist Hans Christian Lumbye;

Opera Tiefland (German— Juventino Rosas; Johann

ouard Nies-Berger; Leopold

lowland) Strauss; Johann Strauss Jr; Jo-

Stokowski; Walter Teutsch

Dalmatian First Yugoslavia’s sef Strauss; Eugéne Ysaye

Conductor-Organist-Pianist

best-known operetta com- Composer-Critic Joseph Mc-

Eduard Nies-Berger, Leopold

poser of the last century— Cabe; Robert Schumann; Carl

Stokowski, and Walter Teut-

Franz von Suppé Shapiro; Virgil Thomson

sch

Conductor-Pianist A s h ke n -

Damnación de Fausto (Span-

Composer-Orchestrators

ish—Damnation of Faust)— Hector Berlioz; Maurice

azy, Barenboim, Dello Joio,

four-part dramatic legend Ravel; Nikolai Rimsky-Kor-

Foss, Ganz, Hendl, Iturbi,

composed by Berlioz sakov; Richard Strauss; Rich-

Mitropoulos, Previn, Solti,

Damnation La Damnation de ard Wagner

Szell, von Karajan, Walter,

Faust (French—The Damna- Composer-Organist J o h a n n

and Zinman

tion of Faust)—four part leg- Sebastian Bach; Anton Bruckner; Dietrich Buxte-

Conductor-Singer P l a c i d o

Domingo

end by Berlioz

Damrosch’s Most Popular

hude; César Franck; Charles

Conductor-Violinist B o s k -

Opera M a n w i t h o u t a Gounod; George Friedrich

Country Handel; Camille Saint-Saëns

ovsky, Brusilow, Burgin,

Giulini; Haitink, Katims;

Danish Composers Niels Vil- Composer-Pianist L u d w i g

(Daniel), Lewis, Menuhin,

van Beethoven; Johannes

Munch, Oisrakh (father and

helm Gade, Friedrich Kuhlau, Hans Christian Lumbye, Carl

Brahms; Frédéric Chopin;

son), Ormandy, Paganini, Pi-

August Nielsen George Gershwin; Percy

Danish Quintet D e n m a r k ’s Grainger; Franz Liszt; Ed-

astro, Schneider, Silverstein, Stern, and Zukerman

five best-known classical ward Macowell; Wolfgang

Connecticut Composer

composers—Buxtehude, Ku- Amadeus Mozart; Sergei

hlau, Lumbye, Gade, Nielsen Prokofiev; Sergei Rachmani-

Charles Ives

Dannazione di Faust (Italian- noff; Robert Schumann

Conservatory Concerto for the

Damnation of Faust)—four- tor Ludwig van Beethoven;

Piano Mendelssohn’s Con-

Composer-Pianist-Conduc-

certo No 1 in G minor opus 25

part legend by Berlioz

Louis Moreau Gottschalk; Danse macabre ( F r e n c h —

Conservatory Concerto for the

Franz Liszt; Sergei Rachman- dance of death)—Saint-Saëns

Violin Mendelssohn’s Con-

inoff, Camille Saint-Saëns work

certo in E opus 64

Composer-Violinist Kreisler, Dante tone poem by Liszt

Contralto of the Century

Paganini, Sarasate, Vieux- Danube Waves I va n ov i c i ’s

Marian Anderson (1897–

temps, Vivaldi, and Wieniaw- fanfare, Anniversary Waltz

ski Daphnis Ravel’s ballet Daph-

Copland’s Most Popular

Computer Composer Yannis nis et Chloé Xenakis

Work Appalachian Spring

Das Judenthum Das Juden- Conductor-Cellist Barbirolli,

Coq Le Coq d’Or (French—

thum in der musik (German— Casals, Rostropovich, Tosca-

The Golden Cock)—Rimsky-

Jewry in Music)—Richard nini, and Wallenstein

Korsakoff opera

Cornerstone of Western

Wagner essay

Conductor of the Century

Das Lied Das Lied von der Arturo Toscanini (1867–

Music Beethoven’s Ninth

Erde (German—The Song of 1957)—Herbert von Karajan

Symphony , according to con-

the Earth)—Mahler work (1908–1989)

ductor Seiji Ozawa

Coronation Mozart’s Mass in

Death and Death and Trans-

Conductor-Chorus Master

figuration (symphonic poem Frank Damrosch, Robert

C or his Piano Concerto in D

by Richard Strauss—Tod und Shaw, Roger Wagner

major (K 537)

Cosi Cosi Fan Tutti (Italian-

Verklärung)

Conductor-Composer

Death and Life G o u n o d ’s George Barati; Pierre Boulez,

Thus Do They All)—opera by

Mors et Vita Mass Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Mozart

Cuban composers Alejandro

Death and the Maiden Schu-

Conductor-Composer-Pia-

bert’s Quartet No 14 in D mi- nist Leonard Bernstein;

García Caturla, Amadeo

nor Walter Damrosch; André Pre-

Roldán, Eduardo Sanchez de

Fuentes y Peláez

Debussy’s Most Popular Op-

vin

Czar Czar und Zimmermann

era Pelléas and Mélisande

Conductor-Double-Bass

(German—czar and carpen-

Debussy’s Most Popular Piano

Serge Koussevitsky, Henry

Piece Clair de Lune Lewis, Zubin Mehta

ter)—Lortzing opera

Czech Duo Czechoslovakia’s

Debussy’s Most Popular Sym-

Conductor-Educator L e -

phonic Work La Mer onard Bernstein, Walter Dam-

best-known classical compos-

ers Bedrich Smetana and An-

Delibes’s Most Popular Aria

rosch, André Previn

tonin Dvorák ˘

Bell Song in Lakmé

Musical Superlatives

Delibes’s Most Popular Ballet

cient, you free, you mountain-

Elgar’s Most Popular Song

Coppélia

ous North)—Sweden’s na-

Salut d’amour

Delius’s Most Popular Tone

Elisir L’Elisir dAmore (Ital- Poem Over the Hills and

tional anthem

ian—The Elixir of Love)— Far Away

Dukas’s Most Popular Orches-

two-act opera by Donizetti Dichter und Bauer (German-

tral Work Sorcerer’s Ap-

Elvira Madigan motion pic- Poet and Peasant)—von

prentice

ture and nickname of Suppé overture

Dulce Patria (Spanish—sweet

Mozart’s Piano Concerto No Die Frau D i e Fra u O h n e

country)—Chile’s national

21 in C major (K 467) Schatten (German—The

anthem

Emperor Beethoven’s Piano opera by Richard Strauss

Dumb Girl Dumb Girl of Por-

Concerto No 5 in E flat ; Die Nullte ( G e r m a n — T h e

Woman without a Shadow)—

tici (Auber opera—La Muette

Haydn’s String Quartet in C Zero)—Bruckner’s Sym-

de Portici )

(opus 76, no 3) phony No 0 in D minor

Dumky Dvorák ˘ trio

Dutch composers C o r n e l i s

Dopper, Willem Pijper, Jan

Emperor Franz-Joseph of the

Die schöne Galathée ( G e r-

Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Johan

Austro-Hungarian Empire

man—The Beautiful

Wagenaar, Bernard Zweers

rolls down the Prater in the

Galatea)—von Suppé over-

imperial coach drum-roll ture

Dutchman The Flying Dutch-

and trumpet-punctuated fi- Dies Irae ( L a t i n — D a y o f

man (Wagner opera whose

nale of the Emperor Waltz by Wrath)—medieval mass for

German title is Der Fliegende

Johann Strauss Jr the dead theme used by ro-

Holländer )

Dutch Quartet Wa g e n a a r,

Enescol’s Most Popular

mantic composers such as

Orchestral Work R o m a - Berlioz, Liszt, and Rachman-

Pijper, Badings, and Otterloo

nian Rhapsody No 1 inoff

Dvorák’s 9 ˘ Dvorák’s nine ˘

symphonies including Bells

English composers S i r

d’Indy’s Most Popular Work

Granville Bantock, Sir Arnold Symphony on a French Moun-

of Zlonice (No 1) and From

Bax, Benjamin Britten, Will- tain Air for piano and orches-

the New World (No 9)

iam Byrd, Frederick Delius, tra

Dvorák’s ˘ Most Popular Air

Sir Edward Elgar, Gustav Dissonant Mozart’s String

Songs My Mother Taught Me

Holst, Henry Purcell, Sir Quartet in C (K 465)

Dvorák’s ˘ Most Popular Con-

Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Tal- Divine Poem Scriabin’s Sym-

certo Cello Concerto in B

lis, Ralph Vaughan Williams, phony No 3

minor

Sir William Walton Doàn Quân Vietnam national

Dvorák’s ˘ Most Popular Sym-

English Hornist T h o m a s anthem

phony No 9 From the New

World

Stacy of the New York Phil-

Dohnanyi’s Most Popular

harmonic Orchestral Work Va r i a -

Egyptian Piano Concerto No 5

English Nonet England’s nine tions on a Nursery Song

by Saint-Saëns

best-known classical compos- Domestica Symphonia Domes-

Eine Alpensinfonie ( G e r-

ers—Tallis, Byrd, Purcell, tica by Richard Strauss

man—An Alpine Sym-

phony)—Richard Strauss

Sullivan, Elgar, Delius,

Donizetti’s Most Popular

Vaughan Williams, Walton, Opera Lucia di Lammer-

tone poem

Britten moor

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

(German—A Little Night

English Symphonist R a l p h

Double Bassist of the Century

Vaughan Williams Gary Karr, Serge Koussev-

Music)—Mozart’s Serenade

Eroica Beethoven’s Symphony Dramatic Symphony R o m é o

for String Orchestra (K 525)

itsky

No 3 in E-flat major (Sinfonia et Juliette by Hector Berlioz

Ein Heldenleben (German—

eroica ) Dreigroschen D i e D re i -

A Hero’s Life)—autobio-

Eskimo Opera Hakon Axel Ei- groschenoper (German—The

graphical symphonic poem

nar Boørresen’s opera about Threepenny Opera)—Kurt

by Richard Strauss

Greenland Eskimos (pro- Weill’s modern reworking of

Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein

Abend in Wien (German—

duced in Copenhagen in 1921 the Beggar’s Opera

Morning, Noon, and Night in

under the title of Kaddara) Dreigroschenoper (German-

Vienna)—von Suppé overture

Eugen Eugen Onegin (Tchaik- Threepenny Opera)—Kurt

Ein Sommernachtstraunt

ovsky opera Weill work with a libretto by

(German—A Midsummer

Evgeny Onyegin (Russian— Bertolt Brecht

N i g h t ’s D r e a m ) — M e n -

Eugene Onegin)—Tchaik- Drum Roll Haydn’s Symphony

delssohn overture

ovsky’s most popular opera No 103 in E-flat majo r

Elektra Richard Strauss trag-

based on a poem by Pushkin Du Gamla, Du Fria D u

edy

Elgar’s Most Popular Orches-

Falla’s (de Falla’s) Most Pop-

gamla, du fria, du fjällhöga

ular Work Nights in the Nord (Swedish—You an-

tral Work Enigma Varia-

tions

Gardens of Spain

Musical Superlatives

Fanciulla La Fanciulla del

First Bohemian Romantic

Foremost French Classical

West (Italian—The Girl of the

Composer Jean Baptiste Golden West)—Puccini opera

Composer Bedrich Smet-

Lully whose libretto recalls David

ana

First Czech Romantic Com-

Foremost French Composer

Hector Berlioz Fantastique Symphonie Fan-

Belasco’s play

poser Antonin Dvorák ˘

First Danish Romantic Com-

Foremost French Modern

Composer Maurice Ravel tique Symphony)—com-

tastique (French—Fantas-

poser Friedrich Kuhlau

First Dutch Romantic Com-

Foremost German Classical

posed by Berlioz who

Composer Johann Sebas- subtitled it Episode de la Vie

poser Johannes Verhulst

tian Bach d’un Artiste (Episode in the

First English Romantic Com-

poser Sir Arthur Sullivan

Life of an Artist)

Foremost German Composer

Farewell Beethoven’s Piano Ludwig van Beethoven

First Finnish Romantic Com-

poser Armas Järnefelt

Foremost German Modern

(opus 111)—Haydn’s Sym- Composer Richard Strauss

Sonata No 32 in C minor

First French Romantic Com-

poser Hector Berlioz

phony No 45 in F-sharp mi-

Foremost Hungarian Com-

nor poser Franz Liszt

First German Romantic Com-

poser L u d w i g va n

Fate Beethoven’s Symphony

Foremost Irish Composer

Beethoven

No 5 in C minor (see Victory)

First Hungarian Romantic

William Vincent Wallace

Faurés Most Popular Work

Composer Franz Liszt

Foremost Italian Composer

Giuseppe Verdi tra

Elégie for Cello and Orches-

First Irish Romantic Com-

poser William Wallace

Foremost Mexican Composer

Faust Damnation of Faust by

Carlos Chávez Berlioz; Faust opera by

First Italian Romantic Com-

poser Gioacchino Rossini

Foremost Musical Romanti-

cist Berlioz, Liszt, or Schu- Liszt, Faust Overtures by

Gounod, Faust Symphony by

First Mexican Romantic Com-

mann Schumann and Wagner

poser Manuel Ponce

Fausts Verdammnis (German— First Norwegian Romantic Composer Christian Sind- poser Edvard Hagerup Grieg

Foremost Norwegian Com-

Damnation of Faust)—dramatic legend composed by

ing

Foremost Polish Composer

Frédéric François Chopin Berlioz

First Polish Romantic Com-

Favorite American Anthems

poser Frédéric Chopin

Foremost Romanian Com-

poser Georges Enesco ; God

America the Beautiful

First Romanian Romantic

Foremost Romantic Com-

Bless America ; My Country

Composer Ludwig Wiest

poser Hector Berlioz ’tis of Thee ; Star-Spangled

First Russian Romantic Com-

Foremost Russian Composer Favorite Canadian Anthems

Banne r

poser Mikhail Glinka

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky O Canada! ; The Maple Leaf

Fledermaus Die Fledermaus

(German—The Bat)—oper-

Foremost Spanish Composer

Forever

etta by Johann Strauss, Jr

Manuel de Falla

Favorite Christmas Carol

Forza La Forza del Destino (German—

Flotow’s (von Flotow’s) Most

Heilige Nacht (Italian—The Force of Des- Holy Night)

Popular Overture Martha

tiny)—Verdi four-act opera FBI in War and Peace Holly-

Flutist of the Century J e a n -

Pierre Rampal; James Gal-

Foss’s Most Popular Work

wood version of Prokofiev’s

Night Music for Brasses and suite entitled “The Love for

way

Orchestra Three Oranges”

Forellen Quintet (see Trout)

Fountains Le Fontane di Roma Fiddlers Three Isaac Stern,

Foremost Austrian Composer

(Respighi—The Fountains of Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuk-

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Rome) erman

Foremost Belgian Composer

Four Saints Four Saints in Fidelio Beethoven opera

César Franck

Three Acts , opera by Virgil Fingal’s Höhle ( G e r m a n —

Foremost Belgian Operatic

Conductor André Cluytens

Thompson with text by Ger-

trude Stein delssohn overture also called

F i n g a l ’s H o l e ) — M e n -

Foremost Bohemian Com-

Four Seasons A n t o n i o Hebrides or Fingal’s Cave

poser Antonin Dvorák ˘

Vivaldi’s concerto Le Quattro Finnish composers A r m a s

Foremost Brazilian Com-

Staggion i Järnefelt, Selim Palmgren,

poser Heitor Villa-Lobos

Four Temperaments H i n - Jan Sibelius

Foremost Dutch Composer

demith composition for string Finnish First Finland’s best-

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

orchestra; Nielsen’s Sym- known classical composer—

Foremost English Composers

phony No 2 Jean Sibelius

Sir Edward Elgar, Ralph

Vaughan Williams

Fra Diavolo Michele Pezza—

Finnish National Composer

leading character in Auber’s Jean Sibelius

Foremost Finnish Composer

Jean Sibelius

opera Fra Diavolo

Musical Superlatives

Francesca Fra n c e s c a d a

German Baroque Masters

Goldman’s Most Popular

Rimini (Tchaikovsky sym-

March On the Mall phonic fantasia, Zandonai

Johann Sebastian Bach,

George Frideric Handel, Hei-

Goldmark’s Most Popular

four-act opera)

nrich Schütz

Symphony Rustic Wedding

Franck’s Most Popular Work

German composers J o h a n n

Gomes’s Most Popular Over-

ture Il Guarany ano & Orchestra

Symphonic Variations for Pi-

Sebastian Bach and his sons,

Ludwig van Beethoven, Jo-

Gould’s Most Popular Orches-

Franck symphony C é s a r

tral Piece American Salute Franck’s Symphony in D

hannes Brahms, Christoph

Willibald von Glück, George

Gounod’s Most Popular

Freischütz Der FreischUtz

Opera Faust (German—The Free-

Friedrich Handel, Paul Hin-

Goyescas Enrique Granados shooter)—von Weber opera

demith, Felix Mendelssohn,

Robert Schumann, Karlheinz

opera

French Baroque Masters

Stockhausen, Richard

Granados’ Most Popular

Jean Baptiste Lully, Jean

Opera Goyescas Philippe Rameau

Strauss, Richard Wagner

Grand Canyon Grand Canyon French composers H e c t o r

German Fourteen G e r-

Suite —symphonic work by Berlioz, Georges Bizet,

many’s fourteen best-known

Ferdé Grofé François Boïeldieu, Pierre

classical composers: Tele-

Great The Great Symphony No Boulez, Emmanuel Chabrier,

mann, Handel, Glück,

9 in C major by Schubert (for- Ernest Chausson, François

Beethoven, von Weber, Men-

merly No 7) Couperin, Achille-Claude

delssohn, Schumann, Wagner,

Great C major S c h u b e r t ’s Debussy, Vincent d’Indy, Paul

Brahms, Bruch, Strauss,

Symphony No 9 Dukas, Gabriel Fauré, Ben-

Schoenberg, Hindemith,

Great Organ Mass H a y d n ’s jamin Godard, Charles

Weill

E-flat Grosse Orgelmesse Gounod, Jacnegger, Edouard

German-Polish Composer-

Pianist-Teacher F r a n z

Greatest Russian Romantic

Lalo, Jules Massenet, Gia-

Composer P y o t r I l y i c h como Meyerbeer, Jacques Of-

Xavier Scharwenka

Tchaikovsky fenbach, Jean Philippe

Gershwin’s Most Popular

Greek Composers N i c h o l a s Rameau, Camille Saint-

Opera Porgy and Bess

Mantzaros, Dimitri Saëns, Ambroise Thomas

Gershwin’s Most Popular

Mitropoulos, Iannis Xenakis French Dozen F r a n c e ’s

Work Rhapsody in Blue

Greek First Iannis Xenakis— twelve best-known classical

Ghost Beethoven trio in D ma-

best-known classical com- composers—Lully, Couperin,

jor

poser of modern Greece Rameau, Berlioz, Gounod,

Gianni Gianni Schicchi (Puc-

Offenbach, Saint-Saëns, Bi-

cini opera)

Grieg’s Most Popular Orches-

tral Suite Peer Gynt Ravel, Milhaud

zet, Massenet, Debussy,

Gioconda La Gioconda (Pon-

chielli opera)

Grieg’s Most Popular Song

Ich liebe Dich (German—I Frog Haydn’s String Quartet

Glazunov 6 Alexander Gla-

Love You) in D (opus 50, no 6)

zunov’s six symphonies

Glazunov’s Most Popular Bal-

Grieg’s Most Popular Work

From the Halls Fro m t h e

Concerto in A minor for Pi- Halls of Montezuma to the

let The Seasons

ano Shores of Tripoli (US Marine

Gliere’s Most Popular Sym-

tral Piece The White Pea- From My Life S m e t a n a ’s

Corps anthem)

phony No 3—Ilya Mouro-

Griffes’ Most Popular Orches-

cock String Quartet No 1 in E mi-

metz

Grimes Peter Grimes (opera by nor

Glinka’s Most Popular Aria

Sussanin’s in A Life for the

Britten)

From the New World

Tsar Ivan Sussanin

Grofé’s Most Popular Orches-

Dvorák’s ˘ Symphony No 9

tral Suite Grand Canyon (formerly No 5)

Glinka’s Most Popular Work

Russlan & Ludmila Overture

Guatemala feliz ( S p a n i s h —

Full Moon and Empty Arms

happy Guatemala)—Guate- Rachmaninoff’s Second Pi-

Glocken von Zlonice ( G e r-

mala national anthem ano Concerto

man—Bells of Zlonice)—

Guitarist of the Century A n - Funeral March Sonata Piano

Dvorák’s ˘ First Symphony

drés Segovia (1893–1987) Sonata in B-flat minor by

Glück’s (von Glück’s)—Most

Haffner Mozart’s Serenade Chopin

Popular Opera O r f e o e d

Suite in D or his Symphony Gaelic Gaelic Symphony by

Euridice

No 35 in D majo r; both honor Mrs HHA Beach (first sym-

Goldberg Bach’s Goldberg

t h e B u rg o m e i s t e r o f phonic work by an American

Variations ; composed for a

Salzburg—Sigmund Haffner woman)

keyboard pupil named Johann

Gottlieb Goldberg

Halévy’s Most Popular

Georgia composer Wa l l i n g -

Opera La Juive (French— ford Riegger

Golden Flutist Georges Bar-

rère

The Jewess)

Musical Superlatives

Halka (Polish—Helen)—Mo-

Igor Prince Igor (opera by niuszko’s most popular opera

Hebrides Mendelssohn over-

Borodin) and the most popular Polish

ture, also called Fingal’s

Il Distrato (Italian—The Ab- one

Cave

s e n t - M i n d e d ) — H a y d n ’s Hamlet funeral march by Ber-

Hercules of Music Christoph

Symphony No 60 in C major lioz; fantasy overture by

Willibald Glück

Ilia Mourometz G l i e r e ’s Tchaikovsky; opera by Tho-

Hindemith’s Most Popular

Symphony No.3 mas

Orchestral Work M a t h i s

der Maler (German—Mathis

I’m Always Chasing Rainbows

Hammerklavier ( G e r m a n

Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu hammer, keyboard)—piano-

the Painter)

in C-sharp minor (popular- forte; Beethoven Piano Sona-

Historical Symphony No 6 of

ized) tas 28 and 29 in B flat (opus

Ludwig Spohr

Imperial Haydn’s Symphony 106)

Hobo Composer Harry Partch

No 99 in E flat Ham ’n’ Eggs m u s i c i a n ’s

(inventor of the forty-three

Impresario Mozart opera nickname for Cavalleria Rus-

microtone to the octave scale)

Holländer D i e F l i eg e n d e

In an 18th-century Drawing

ticana and I Pagliacci as these

Room Mozart’s Piano So- two go well together

Holländer (German—The

Flying Dutchman)—opera by

nata in C

Handel’s Most Popular Air

Indian MacDowell’s Suite No Ombra mai fu (Italian—

Wagner

2 for Orchestra introducing Shade of My Tree)—from

Holst’s Most Popular Orches-

American Indian themes Xerxes, best known as Han-

tral Work The Planets

Inextinguishable N i e l s e n ’s del’s Largo

Holy Mass Haydn’s Heiligesse

in B flat

Symphony No 4

Honnegar’s Most Popular

Handel’s Most Popular Orato-

Inno de Mameli ( I t a l i a n —

rio Messiah Hymn of Mameli)—Italy’s

Orchestral Work Pa c i fi c

national anthem honoring

Handel’s Most Popular

Goffredo Mameli Orchestral Suite Fi re -

Hornist of the Century Den-

nis Brain (1921–1957)

Ippolitov-Ivanov’s Most Popu-

lar Orchestral Work Cau- Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel

works

Horseman H a y d n ’s S t r i n g

casian Sketches (Humperdinck’s Christmas-

Quartet in G minor (opus 74,

Irish Irish Rhapsody by Victor time entertainment and opera

no 3)

Herbert; Irish Symphony by about a brother, sister, par-

Hugh Hugh the Drover—op-

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; ents, and an old witch in a

era by Ralph Vaughan Will-

Irish Symphon y by Sir Hamil- gingerbread house)

iams)

Huguenots L e s H u g u e n o t s

ton Harty

Hanson’s Most Popular Sym-

Irish composers Wi l l i a m phony No 2—Romantic

(French—The Huguenots)—

Balfe, Sir Hamilton Harty, Sir Harold Harold en Italie (Ital-

Meyerbeer

Charles Villiers Stanford, ian—Harold in Italy)—Ber-

Humperdinck’s Most Popular

William Wallace, Charles lioz symphony with viola solo

Opera Hänsel und Gretel

Wood Harp B e e t h ove n ’s S t r i n g

Hungarian-born Eminent

Irish First I r e l a n d ’s b e s t - Quartet in E-flat major (opus

American Conductors

known cellist-composer-con- 74)—Chopin’s Piano Etude

Antal Dorati, Eugene Or-

ductor was Victor Herbert, re- in A flat (opus 25, no 1)

mandy, Fritz Reiner, Sir

membered for his operettas Harpist of the Century A l -

Georg Solti, George Szell

produced in the United States, fredo Casella (1883–1947)

Hungarian composers B é l a

Bartók, Ernst Dohnanyi,

where he became a natural-

Harpsichordist of the Cen-

ized citizen tury Wanda Landowska

Zoltan Kodaly, Franz Liszt

Israel Ernst Bloch symphony (1877–1959)

Hungarian Quartet H u n -

Israeli National Composer Harris’s Most Popular Piece

gary’s four best-known clas-

Ernst Bloch Cimarron (symphonic over-

sical composers—Liszt,

Italian Mendelssohn’s Sym- ture)

Dohnanyi, Bartók, Kodaly

phony No 4 in A major Hatikvah ( H e b r ew — T h e

Hunting M o z a r t ’s S t r i n g

Quartet in B flat (K 458)

Italiana Italiana in Algeri

(Italian—The Italian Girl in Hope)—Israeli anthem

Husitská Dvorák’s ˘ overture

Algiers)—Rossini opera Haydn’s 104 F r a n z J o s e p h

honoring Bohemian patriot

Italian Baroque Masters A t - Haydn’s 104 symphonies

Jan Huss

Hymn of Praise M e n d e l -

cangelo Corelli, Claudio

Haydn’s Most Popular Orato-

Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi rio The Seasons

ssohn’s Symphony No 2 in B-

flat major (also known as

Italian composers To m a s o

Haydn’s Most Popular Sym-

Albinoni, Vincinzo Bellini, phony No 104—London

Lobgesang )

Arrigo Boito, Ferruccio Hebrew Opera-Oratorio Sam-

Ibert’s Most Popular Orches-

Busoni, Alfredo Casella, son et Delila by Saint Saëns

tral Suite E s c a l e s

(French—Ports of Call)

Mario Caslnuovo-Tedesco,

Musical Superlatives

Luigi Cherubini, Domenico

L’Arlésienne Bizet’s suites No Cimarosa, Muzio Clementi,

Khachaturian’s Most Popular

1 and No 2 Arcangelo Corelli, Luigi Dal-

Ballet Gayne

Khovantchina M u s s o rg s ky

Last American Romantic

lapicocla, Andrea and Gio-

Composer Edward Mac- vanni Gabrieli, Giuseppe and

opera completed after his

Dowell Tommaso Giordani, Umberto

death by Rimsky-Korsakoff

Knyaz Knyáz Igor (Russian-

Last Austrian Romantic Com-

poser Anton Bruckner Claudio Monteverdi, Gio-

Giordano, Pietro Mascagni,

Prince Igor)—Borodin’s un-

completed opera partly or-

Last Belgian Romantic Com-

vanni Palestrina, Giovanni

poser César Franck Pergolese, Giacomo Puccini,

chestrated by Glazunov and

Rimsky-Korsakov

Last Bohemian Romantic

Composer Gustav Mahler acchino Rossini, Alessandro

Ottorino Respighi, Gio-

Kodaly’s Most Popular Suite

Háry János

Last Brazilian Romantic Com-

and Domenico Scarlatti,

Komische Opera (German—

poser Heitor Villa-Lobos

F r a n c i s c o Pa o l o To s t i , Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio

comic opera)—Berlin Opera

Last Czech Romantic Com-

poser Josef Suk Vivaldi, Ermanno Wolf-Fer-

House

rari, Riccardo Zandonai

Kreutzer Beethoven’s Sonata

Last Danish Romantic Com-

poser Carl Nielsen Italian Fourteen Italy’s best-

in A minor

(opus 47)—for vi-

known classical composers—

olin and piano; dedicated to

Last Dutch Romantic Com-

poser Johan Wagenaar cobaldi, Vivaldi, Scarlatti (2),

Palestrina, Monteverdi, Fes-

his friend the violinist Rudol-

phe Kreutzer

Last English Romantic Com-

Cherubini, Paganini, Rossini,

Kutchka Mogutchaya Kutchka

poser Sir Edward Elgar

Last Finnish Romantic Com-

poser Jean Sibelius Italian Girl Italian Girl in Al-

Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puc-

(Russian—Mighty Hand-

cini, Respighi

ful)—Balakirev, Borodin,

Cui, Mussorgsky, and Rim-

Last French Romantic Com-

poser Camille Saint-Saëns giers (Rossini opera)

sky-Korsakov

Ivan the Terrible R i m s ky -

La Chasse Haydn’s Quartet in

Last German Romantic Com-

poser Richard Strauss Korsakoff opera

(opus 1, No 1)— B flat

Last Hungarian Romantic

Ives 4 four symphonies by

Haydn’s Symphony No 73 in

Charles Ives

D major (The Hunt)

Composer E r n s t vo n Dohnanyi

Ives’s Most Popular Orches-

La Damnation de Faust

Last Irish Romantic Com-

tral Work The Fourth of

poser Charles Stanford July

(French—The Damnation of

Faust)—four-part dramatic

Last Italian Romantic Com-

Jeremiah Bernstein’s Sym- phony No 1 commemorating

legend composed by Berlioz

Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth

poser Giacomo Puccini

Last Mexican Romantic Com-

the prophet Jeremiah and his

poser Carlos Chávez prophecies

of the Mtsensk District ; Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (Shosta-

Last Norwegian Romantic

Jeu des cartes (French—deck

Composer Edvard Grieg of cards)—Stravinsky ballet

kovich opera known to Rus- sians as Katerina Izmaylova)

Last Polish Romantic Com-

Joke Haydn’s String Quartet in

Lakmé Delibes opera

poser Stanislaw Moniuszko

E flat (opus 33, no 2)

Lalo’s Most Popular Over-

ture Le Roi d’Ys (French—

Last Romanian Romantic

Juive La Juive (French—The

Composer Georges Enesco Jewess)—Halévy opera

The King of Ys)

Last Russian Romantic Com-

Jupiter ( L a t i n — Z e u s ) —

poser Sergei Vasilievich Mozart’s Symphony No 41 in

Lalo’s Most Popular Work

Symphonie espagnole for vio-

Rachmaninoff

Last Spanish Romantic Com- Kabalevsky’s Most Popular

C major —his last

lin and orchestra

poser Manuel de Falla Overture Colas Breugnon

Lamentatione Haydn’s Sym-

phony No 26 in D minor also

Last Swedish Romantic Com-

Kaddish B e r n s t e i n ’s S y m -

poser Kurt Atterberg phony No 3

called the Christmas Sym-

phony

Last of the American Roman-

Kaiser Kaiser-Waltzer (Ger-

tic Composers E d wa r d man—Emperor Waltz)—Jo-

Land of Hope and Glory E l -

MacDowell hann Strauss, Jr’s opus 437

gar’s Pomp and Circum-

stance , March No 1

Last of the Australian Roman-

Kansas City Composer Vi r-

tic Composers P e r cy gil Thomson

La Reine ( F r e n c h — T h e

Grainger Katerina Katerina Izmaylova

Queen)—Haydn’s Symphony

No 85 in B-flat major

Last of the Austrian Romantic

(Russian title of Shostakov-

Composers Gustav Mahler ich’s opera Lady Macbeth of

Largest Opera House Metro-

politan Opera House in New

Last of the Belgian Romantic

Composers César Franck Kettledrum Haydn’s Kettle-

the Mtsensk District )

York’s Lincoln Center seats

Last of the Bohemian Roman-

drum Mass in C major

tic Composers A n t o n í n (Paukenmesse)

Lark Haydn’s String Quartet

in D (opus 64, no 5)

Dvorák ˘

Musical Superlatives

Last of the Brazilian Romantic

Lone Ranger gallop music at Composers Heitor Villa-

Le Divin Poeme ( F r e n c h —

the end of Rossini’s William Lobos

The Divine Poem)—Scri-

abin’s Symphony No 3

Tell overture

Last of the Danish Romantic

Longest Opera Die Meisters- Composers Carl Nielsen

Lehár’s Most Popular Oper-

etta The Merry Widow

inger von Nürnberg by Wag-

Last of the Dutch Romantic

ner (performance time: 5 Composers J o h a n Wa -

Leichte Kavallerie (German—

hours 15 minutes) genaar

Light Cavalry)—von Suppé

overture

Longest Symphony Sympho-

Last of the English Romantic

ny No 3 in D mino r by Mahler Composers Sir Edward El-

Lélio Lélio, ou Le Retour á la

(performance time: 1 hour 40 gar

vie (French—Lé1io, or the

Return to Life)—Berlioz

minutes)

Last of the Finnish Romantic

Loudest Opera Damnation of Composers Jean Sibelius

monodrama sequel to his

Symphonie fantastique

Faust by Berlioz with its Ride

Last of the French Opéra

to the Abyss Bouffe Composers Jacques

Loudest Oratorio R e q u i e m Offenbach

Lenin Shostakovich’s Sym-

phony No 12

Leningrad S h o s t a k ov i c h ’s

by Berlioz (score calls for a

Last of the German Romantic

chorus of 210 and an orches- Composers Richard Strauss

Symphony No 7

tra of 217)

Leoncavallo’s Most Popular

Last of the Great Romantic

Loudest Symphony Mahler’s

Composers Carlos Chavez, Tragic Symphony No 6 in A

Opera I Pagliacci (Ital-

Mexico; Claude Achille De- minor

ian—The Players)

Loudest Undersea Songs ˘

Les Adieux Beethoven’s Piano

Dvorák, Czechoslovakia; sounds of humpback whales

bussy, France; Antonin

Sonata No 23 in E flat (opus

Georges Enesco, Romania; Lucia Lucia di Lammermoor

81a)—Les Adieux, l’absence,

Manuel de Falla, Spain; Ed- (three-act opera by Donizetti)

et le retour —the farewell, the

absence, and the return

vard Hagerup Grieg, Norway;

Lully’s Most Popular Ballet

Alceste States; Gustav Mahler, Aus-

Howard Hanson, United

L’Heure L’Heure Espagnole

(French—The Spanish

MacDowell’s Most Popular

tria; August Nielsen, Den-

Piano Concerto No 2 in D mark; Giacomo Puccini, It-

Hour)—Ravel operatic farce

minor aly; Sergei Rachmaninoff,

Liadov’s Most Popular Sym-

Magic Flute Mozart opera Russia; Richard Strauss, Ger-

phonic Poem Kikimora

Mahagonny Aufstieg und Fall many; Ralph Vaughan Will-

l’Impériale H a y d n ’s S y m -

der Stadt Mahagonny (Ger- iams, Britain; and Heitor

phony No 53 in D major

man—Rise and Fall of the Villa-Lobos, Brazil

Linz Mozart’s Symphony No

36 in C major named for the

City of Mahagonny)—opera

Last of the Hungarian Roman-

by Kurt Weill with text by tic Composers Franz Liszt

Austrian town of Linz

Liszt’s Most Popular Sym-

Bertolt Brecht

Last of the Italian Opera Buffa

Mahler’s 10 M a h l e r ’s t e n Composers Rossini

phonic Poem Les Preludes

Liszt’s Most Popular Waltz

symphonies including the

Last of the Italian Romantic

Resurrection (No 2), the Sym- Composers Ottorino Re-

Mephisto

phony of a Thousand (No 8), spighi

Little Schubert’s Symphony No

6 in C

and the Unfinished (No 10)

Last of the Norwegian Roman-

Cycle Das Lied von der Sinding

Little C major S c h u b e r t ’s

Mahler’s Most Popular Song

tic Composers C h r i s t i a n

Symphony No 6

Erde (German—The Song of

Little Russian Tchaikovsky’s

Last of the Polish Romantic

the Earth)

Symphony No 2 in C mino r

erewski Symphony No 1 in D major—

Composers Ignace Jan Pad-

Mahler’s Most Popular Work

Lobgesang (German—Hymn

of Praise)—Mendelssohn’s

Last of the Romantic Roma-

the Titan

nian Composers G e o rg e s Maine Composer Walter Pis-

Symphony No 2 in B-flat ma-

ton Enesco

jor

Lohengrin Wagner’s three-act

Malvenuto nickname critics

Last of the Russian Romantic

bestowed on the Berlioz op- Composers Sergei Rach-

romantic opera

era Benvenuto Cellini maninoff

London Haydn’s Trios No 1

and 2 (for two flutes and

Mamelles Les Mamelles de

Last of the Spanish Romantic

Ti r é s i a s (French—The Composers M a n u e l d e

cello)—Haydn’s Symphony

Breasts of Tiresias)—comic Falla

No 104 in D major ; Sym-

phony No 2 by Vaughan Wil-

opera by Poulenc

Last of the Swedish Romantic

Manfred Manfred Overture Composers Kurt Atterberg

liams—A London Symphony

London Suite London Again

(Schumann)—Manfred Sym-

Leading Bel Canto Composer

phony (Tchaikovsky) Gioacchino Rossini

or London Every Day (sym-

phonic suite by Eric Coates)

Manon Massenet opera

Musical Superlatives

Manon Lescaut Puccini opera

Mendelssohn’s Most Popular

Most Admired and Most Dis-

Manzoni Mass Ve r d i ’s R e -

Symphony No 4 in A ma-

cussed Anglo-American

quiem

jor—the Italian

Conductor L e o p o l d

Mascagni’s Most Popular

Stokowski Opera Cavalleria Rusticana

Mendelssohn’s Most Popular

Work Concerto in E minor

Most Amazing Composer

Wolfgang Arnadeus Mozart Masonic Composer Wo l f -

(Italian—Rustic Chivalry)

for Violin

Menotti’s Most Popular

Most Famous Operatic Inter-

gang Amadeus Mozart who

mezzi Cavalleria Rusticana was a freemason and alluded

Work Amahl and the Night

by Pietro Mascagni to the ethical laws of Masonry

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Mexican Composer-Conduc-

Most Mispronounced Sym-

in his opera The Magic Flute

phony Tchaikovsky’s Sym- (Il Flauto Magico, La Flûte

tor Carlos Chávez or Juven-

phony No 6—Pathétique Enchantée , Die Zauber-

tino Rosas

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