| A | B |
| Verdi | probably the greatest composer of opera |
| Modest Mussorgsky | worked un Dargomyzhsky |
| Wagner | greatest composer of German opera |
| Ring Cycle | Valkyries |
| Bizet | French composer of operas |
| Carmen | Torreadors |
| Brahms | called the successor to Beethoven |
| Tchaikovsky | one of the mighty five |
| Overture of 1812 | included the French national anthem as well as Russian folk music |
| Mahler | Austrian conductor and composer who was born in Bohemia |
| First Symphony in D Major | Titan is an example of Romantic symphonic writing |
| Richard Strauss | credited with raising the symphonic poem to its highest level |
| Also Sprach Zarathustra | sunrise |
| Clara Schumann | virtuoso |
| Dvorak | influence of the United States |
| Chopin | closely associated with pieces for the piano- Polish |
| Revolutionary Study | dedicated to Liszt |
| Mendelssohn | called the Classical Romantic |
| #4, Italian First Movement | the composer of this piece sketched pictures of his travels |
| Rossini | called the most successful opertic composer of his day |
| William Tell Overture: Finale | written as the orchestral prelude to a four act grand opera in French |
| Berloiz | leading representative of Romanticism in France |
| Symphonie Fantastique | March to the Scaffold |
| Beethoven | bridge from Classical to Romanticism |
| Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Finale | used crescendi and decresendi extensively |