Prompt 7 of 7
Name a famous classical composer
118 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion2 answers
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Gesualdo— Prince of Venosa. Wrote madrigals so chromatic they sound like the 20th century — and murdered his wife and her lover. History's most metal composer.
- Hildegard von Bingen— A 12th-century abbess who wrote soaring sacred music 700 years before your other picks. The original composer.
85 ptsDeep Cut63 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Albeniz
- Albinoni
- Amy Beach
- Bellini
- Berg
- Boccherini
- Borodin
- Boulanger
- Bruch
- Bruckner
- Buxtehude
- Byrd
- Clementi
- Corelli
- Couperin
- CPE Bach
- Czerny
- de Falla
- Delibes
- Donizetti
- Dowland
- Fanny Mendelssohn
- Faure
- Florence Price
- Franck
- Glinka
- Gluck
- Gorecki
- Gounod
- Granados
- Hindemith
- Hummel
- Ives
- Janacek
- John Adams
- Kodaly
- Ligeti
- Lully
- Massenet
- Messiaen
- Milhaud
- Monteverdi
- Nielsen
- Offenbach
- Palestrina
- Penderecki
- Piazzolla
- Poulenc
- Purcell
- Rameau
- Reich
- Rodrigo
- Scarlatti
- Scott Joplin
- Scriabin
- Smetana
- Sousa
- Stockhausen
- Tallis
- Telemann
- Villa-Lobos
- Weber
- Webern
60 ptsRare39 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Arvo Part
- Barber
- Bartok
- Berlioz
- Bernstein
- Bizet
- Britten
- Cage
- Clara Schumann
- Copland
- Dvorak
- Elgar
- Gershwin
- Grieg
- Johann Strauss II
- John Williams
- Liszt
- Mahler
- Mendelssohn
- Mussorgsky
- Paganini
- Philip Glass
- Prokofiev
- Puccini
- Rachmaninoff
- Ravel
- Richard Strauss
- Rimsky-Korsakov
- Rossini
- Saint-Saens
- Salieri
- Satie
- Schoenberg
- Schumann
- Shostakovich
- Sibelius
- Stravinsky
- Vaughan Williams
- Verdi
30 ptsSchooler9 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Brahms
- Chopin
- Debussy
- Handel
- Haydn
- Schubert
- Tchaikovsky
- Vivaldi
- Wagner
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Holst— You know one piece by him and it's The Planets. So does everyone.
- Pachelbel— That one canon at every wedding. Cellists twitch at the sound of your name.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Bach
- Beethoven
- Mozart