Let's start a game to see how many composers we can name - going through the alphabet. Preferably the last name of the composer should start with the letter we are on, but if you need to use the first name - we won't fuss!

For example (not gonna use up my composers here)
A - John Adams
B- John Black
C - John Carter
etc.

A - Hugo Alfven, composer of the "Swedish Rhapsody"

OK, I'll just keep going until somebody joins me, LOL!

B - Johann Sebastian Bach

C - Frederic Chopin

D Claude Debussy

Come on, somebody join me!!!!

Uh ...

E for Duke Ellington? (Sorry, it's jazz, but "E" is hard one!)

Hey! I'm just glad someone joined me, LOL!

F Irving Fine - a US composer!

G
Mikhail Glinka (Russian: 1804-57)

H - ooo, lots of H's!

George Frideric Handel

(Handel -- one of the few I can actually say I've listened to! And I end up with "I" !?!?! Let me look up another Russian ...)

I for Aleksandr Iljynski (Russia: 1859-1920)

Here's a fun one!
J Scott Joplin (maybe not exactly classical, but definitely an icon in music!)

K Jubing Kristianto (Indonesian)

Franz Liszt

Unfortunately, the move Eyes Wide Shut ruined Nuages Gris for me.

That movie could have ruined margarine!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

(Yeah, I took the easy way out, LOL)

E for Duke Ellington?

Carl Otto Nicolai - Romantic Era Composer

How about a woman, American


Pauline Oliveros

Giacomo Puccini

Q?????
R=Gioachino Rossini
S= Robert Alexander Schumann (Germany 6-8-1810- 7-29-1856)
T= Pyotr Tchaikovaky

U???
V-Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (3-4-1678 -7-28-1740

W

Wagner

OK, I'm backing up a little bit, but I did some digging and found a "Q"...

Jean Baptiste Quentin, more commonly known as Quentin Le Jeune. He wrote mostly for chamber music and small groups in the early 18th century.

Xavier Cugat

Yusef Latiffe

Zamfir

Adolphe Adam, composer of Oh Holy Night and Ballet Giselle
Beethoven van Ludwig, Bach Johann Sebastian, Brahms Johannes, Bartok Bela, Chopin Fryderyk , Debussy Claude, Dvorak Antonin, Elgar Edward, Gerswin George, Griegg Edward, Haydn Joseph, Holst Gustav, Liszt Franz, Mahler Gustav, Mendelssohn Felix, Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus, Offenback Jacques, Ravel Maurice, Schubert Franz, Schumann Robert, Stravinsky Igor, Strauss Johann II, Tchaikovsky Piotor Ilych.
Opera composers, Bizet Georges, Donizetti Gaetano, Gounod Charles, Massenet Jules, Mascagni Pietro, Meyerber Giacomo, Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus, Moussorgski Modesto, Offenbach Jacques, Ponchielli Amilcare, Puccini Giacomo, Rossini Giacomo, Strauss Richard, Verdi Giuseppe, Wagner Richard, etc. etc. etc. My house is filled ""every single day with classical music"" Thid is the protein form my brain and my spirit; I definitely can't live without the grandeur and delight of the sounds of the instruments that play it.
Myriam thelemaque

oh... silly me, I forgot to read to the last page!!

Alexander Agricola

Elgar for "E," I see it above, I'm too late . This is fun! More games like this!!!

Is there a Zuniga? Zalenski maybe? Did Zorba the Greek compose?