• This American composer was questioned by McCarthy about possible affiliation with Communism.
• His work reflected the politics of Bohemia, where he was born.
• This Hungarian composer was one of the founders of ethnomusicology.
• He was a friend of Franz Liszt and Gabriel Faure, and hated Claude Debussy's music.
• He became unable to sing well after drinking engraver's acid that was kept in a wine bottle.
• Some of his most famous music was written for a play that features trolls.
• He was the Lutheran grandson of a prominent Jewish philosopher.
• He lived less than 32 years, but became well-known for his Lieder.
• This Polish composer wrote mostly for solo piano.
• He was appointed head of the Paris Conservatorie in the wake of a scandal.
• This German-born British composer wrote over forty operas.
• As a teenager, he worked for a music publisher on Tin Pan Alley before any of his music was published.
• This French composer, known for only a few of his works, abandoned an opera he was writing when the Paris Opera burned.
• This composer of operas almost died in a car accident in 1903.
• He was nicknamed "the Italian Mozart".
• Many of his operas were later read as being about the unification of Italy.
• This English composer studied Sanskrit.
• His parents intended him to become a doctor, and he never learned to play the piano.
• His time at Juilliard was interrupted by World War II.
• Boston police stopped performances of his unusual arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
• He left the Paris Conservatorie after only a year, and went on to compose humorous operettas.
• His most famous piece is the only canon he wrote.
• His birth was close in place and time to George Frideric Handel's, but they never met.
• He made a recording of one of his Hungarian dances, invited by a representative of the equipment's inventor.
• This composer of marches developed an instrument often used in marching bands.
• He wrote the scores of many recent films, especially those directed by Steven Spielberg.
• He left his home in a small Austrian village to train as a musician at age 6.
• He started to lose his hearing while still in his mid-twenties, but kept writing music.
• He is best known for a piece that he described as "a piece for orchestra without music".
• He is known for a piece orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
• One of his ballets is very commonly performed at Christmas.
• This composer wrote both the music and the libretto for his operas, and also wrote political essays.
• His marriage to his teacher's daughter was the subject of a long legal battle.
• He grew up in Texarkana and became famous for ragtime.
• He left Russia after the Russian Revolution, and lived in many places, eventually dying in Beverly Hills.
• It has often been claimed that his music makes children smarter.

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