Recognize the great composers by ear
What makes Bach sound like Bach? These pages describe how to recognize 30 composers, and who they can be mistaken for. Then test yourself: the game plays up to 30 seconds of music, and you name the composer.
- Claudio Monteverdi1567–1643 · Before 1600
- Antonio Vivaldi1678–1741 · Baroque
- Johann Sebastian Bach1685–1750 · Baroque
- George Frideric Handel1685–1759 · Baroque
- Joseph Haydn1732–1809 · Classical
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756–1791 · Classical
- Ludwig van Beethoven1770–1827 · Early Romantic
- Franz Schubert1797–1828 · Early Romantic
- Felix Mendelssohn1809–1847 · Romantic
- Frédéric Chopin1810–1849 · Romantic
- Robert Schumann1810–1856 · Romantic
- Franz Liszt1811–1886 · Romantic
- Richard Wagner1813–1883 · Romantic
- Giuseppe Verdi1813–1901 · Romantic
- Johannes Brahms1833–1897 · Romantic
- Camille Saint-Saëns1835–1921 · Romantic
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840–1893 · Romantic
- Antonín Dvořák1841–1904 · Romantic
- Edvard Grieg1843–1907 · Romantic
- Edward Elgar1857–1934 · Late Romantic
- Giacomo Puccini1858–1924 · Late Romantic
- Gustav Mahler1860–1911 · Late Romantic
- Claude Debussy1862–1918 · Late Romantic
- Jean Sibelius1865–1957 · Late Romantic
- Erik Satie1866–1925 · Late Romantic
- Sergei Rachmaninoff1873–1943 · Late Romantic
- Maurice Ravel1875–1937 · Late Romantic
- Igor Stravinsky1882–1971 · 20th century
- Sergei Prokofiev1891–1953 · 20th century
- Dmitri Shostakovich1906–1975 · 20th century