This composer wrote over 100 pieces featuring this instrument. That’s because it was his employer’s instrument of choice. It seems that his patron wasn’t so good at it. The most adept players would have been able to play a melody and accompany themselves at the same time, but this composer kept it simple to keep the benefactor happy.

This music honors an Austrian king. It was written to accompany a play about an older Hungarian king. The composer wrote this piece while taking a “rest cure” at a spa, as wars raged through Europe.

Ether Game asks: can you name this tune? It just might leave you chirping for more.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Fasten your seat belts!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Let’s end this cycle on a high note!

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Look to the stars!

A few weeks after writing the text to this final opera in his epic sage, the composer was persuaded that his draft assumed too much background knowledge to the story, so he added a prologue to bring the audience up to speed on the plot. Ultimately, everything is destroyed, and the listener ends up where they started nearly 16 hours before.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A tricky gambling game

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Marching to a totally different beat

When this comic play was translated for an operatic audiences and the Austrian stage, the location was from a cafe to something more familiar to Viennese audiences, a splendid ball!