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1. This Russian composer is best known for the suite from his ballet, "The Comedians".
2. This English/Prussian composer was running an orange plantation in Florida when he first became interested in music. In fact, his first published composition "Florida Suite" is based on the Negro music he heard there.
3. The prologue to an opera he wrote with Bertolt Brecht became a hugely popular song, first by Louis Armstrong. Hitler banned his music and he emigrated first to Paris, then London, then New York where he began writing Broadway musicals.
4. He was in the service of Emperor Joseph II at one time and composed numerous operas in the late 18th century, including 'Hieronimus Knicker', and a concerto for double bass and orchestra
5. This Englishman has produced several operas, but is best known for his movie music, most notably "Murder on the Orient Express".
6. This New Yorker is best known for "The Pleasure Dome of Kublai Khan" and "The White Peacock" and is often referred to as America's first impressionist composer.
7. Many high school band members are familiar with his "Polka and Fugue" from the opera 'Schwanda the Bagpiper'.
8. In 1920 he wrote a ballet titled "Le boeuf sur le toit" - "The Bull on the Roof." It contained exotic rhythms as a result of his earlier visit to Brazil.
9. This blind Spanish composer is most identified with the Romero family.
10. As Dermot O'Byrne he wrote lyric poems in Gaelic, but that was a pseudonym. Under his real name he wrote symphonic poems such as "Tintagel" and "November Woods".
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