Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" contains some the more recognizable classical music from the Baroque era. Published first in 1723, the work features parts which are used as background music in countless television shows, commercials and movies.
2. Of hay mare rhea
Answer: Ave Maria
Franz Schubert's hauntingly beautiful "Ave Maria" is one of classical music's most poignant melodies. Disney used "Ave Maria" as the final part of "Fantasia", flowing into its more sacred theme directly from Mussorgsky's more demonic "Night on Bald Mountain".
3. Thematic fluke
Answer: The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute (or in German, Die Zauberflöte) is a two-act opera composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was quite successful in its day, and still quite popular today; it is the tenth most performed opera in North America.
4. Apple achings bring
Answer: Appalachian Spring
Premiering in 1944, "Appalachian Spring" is a ballet score written by Aaron Copland. The story is of a spring celebration of American pioneers in the 1800s.
Copland was awarded the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Music for this ballet.
5. Car meaner banana
Answer: Carmina Burana
A collection of manuscripts discovered in 1803 in a Bavarian monastery are known as the "Carmina Burana" (also as the "Burana Codex"). Carl Orff's musical work, written between 1935 and 1936, is based on 24 of the poems found in these manuscripts. It has quite haunting, almost satanic melodies which are often employed as background music on television and in movies.
6. Duh shrine good
Answer: Das Rheingold
"Das Rheingold" was composed by Richard Wagner and premiered in 1869. It is the first work in Wagner's grand, four-work "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Ring of the Nibelung).
7. War tame you sick
Answer: Water Music
The work entitled "Water Music" was composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered July 17, 1717 when England's King George I requested a concert on the River Thames. The music was performed by a 50-piece orchestra on a barge.
8. Spoon likes an udder
Answer: Moonlight Sonata
Completed in 1801 and possibly his most familiar piano sonata, the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is known as the "Moonlight" Sonata. It is rumored to be dedicated to Beethoven's 17-year-old pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, with whom Beethoven was in love.
9. Doughnut lacquer sweet
Answer: The Nutcracker Suite
Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1891-1892, "The Nutcracker Suite" is a favorite at Christmas time, and well represented in the 1940 Disney classic, "Fantasia". "The Nutcracker" ballet tells the story of the noble Nutcracker and his bout with the evil Mouse King. The suite, his Op. 71a, is a selection of eight of the more popular numbers from the full Tchaikovsky ballet.
10. Shah herald sod
Answer: Scheherazade
"Scheherazade" is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888, his Op. 35. It is based on the legendary Persian queen and storyteller of "One Thousand and One Nights". The suite contains four main parts:
I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
II. The Kalendar Prince
III. The Young Prince and The Young Princess
IV. Festival At Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman.
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