What composer wrote a symphony in which the musicians stop playing one by one and leave the stage until only two are left?

What Soviet composer’s death preceded that of Joseph Stalin by approximately 50 minutes?

What renowned 19th-century pianist, composer, and teacher became known as the Queen of the Piano during a successful recital career lasting more than 60 years?

Of which composer did Igor Stravinsky say, “[He] did not write 400 concertos; he wrote the same concerto 400 times”?

Which composition by Ludwig van Beethoven inspired a novella of the same title by Leo Tolstoy, in which a jealous husband murders his wife after she and another man play the composition together?

Which medieval composer and mystic was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012?

Which contemporary composer wrote a piece consisting entirely of silence?

Which renowned Russian Romantic composer was also a professor of chemistry?

Which major American composer also ran a successful insurance company?

Which composer’s Sixth Symphony features the ringing of cowbells offstage?