Quiz 4: Romantic Era

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Clara is looked after by an adoring composer named

Brahms

Which instrument among the following was a favorite in the Baroque Era?

Harpsichord

Brilliant pianist, teacher, lady's man-turned-priest.

Liszt

These two were considered conservative in their music. HINT: Midsummer Night's Dream, German Requim.

Mendelssohn-Brahms

It is said that a little dog playing in the garden was the inspiration for this composer to write:

Minute Waltz

Smetana, Czech composer who went deaf, got VD, and ended up in an asylum like Schumann, wrote a musical work depicting a twisting, turning river. What was it?

Moldau

Which of these is not a Romantic composer?

Mozart

Which opera composer doesn't belong in the Romantic Era?

Mozart

Sold his soul to the devil for his amazing violin virtuosity, he was

Niccolo Paganini

This great violinist influenced Liszt, Mendelssohn, and many others, his name is:

Niccolo Paganini

Tchaikovsky wrote a concert overture about two star crossed lovers, is was called

Romeo and Juliet

Two composers are most known for Lied or Art Song.

Schubert/Schumann

Ruined hands, music critic, faithful wife, asylum.

Schumann

Which composer does NOT belong to the classical era.

Tchaikovski

Music filling in the spaces at plays, theaters, or other visual events is

incidental

The orchestra in the Romantic era

larger and highly colored

Thomas Edison is credited as the inventor of the:

phonograph

Clara Schumann is among the finest

pianists of the Romantic

Which is NOT characteristic of the Romantic Era?

restraint/balance

Program music is:

story, event, picture, idea set to music

What doesn't belong to Romantic era themes?

successful love

What are the Baroque dates

1600-1750

What are the Classical Dates?

1750-1820

Romantic dates:

1820-1900

Classical composer who served as model for Brahms, Wagner, and others

Beethoven

Besides Liszt another noted piano virtuoso was

Chopin

Polish pianist moved to Paris at age 21

Chopin

Which woman best represented a growing equality for women musicians during the Romantic era?

Clara Schumann

Begun in Spillville, Iowa this composer wrote a work called "The New World Symphony" who was it?

Dvorak

This Art Song by Schubert is about a wild ride through the forest, it also had a supernatural character as well. What was this song called?

Erl King

After his mastery of the Keyed Ballista Tchaikovsky wrote several Concertos for it.

False

Chopin was considered a great composer of Opera and Ballet.

False

Liszt and his virtuosity stunned the world, both in his career and when he decided to become a lawyer.

False

Liszt is the greatest violinist of his day.

False

Mozart and Tchaikovsky worked together on their opera, Night on a Bald Mountain, while living in Paris

False

The phonograph is an invention of the 20th century

False

Beethoven was a transitional person into the Romantic Era

True

Brahms wrote in all forms except opera

True

During the Romantic Era new instruments were added to the orchestra

True

Writing music that reflects a place different or more unusual than your own is

exoticism

Which of the following terms doesn't belong to descriptive music used in the Romantic era?

free verse poem

What doesn't belong?

fugue

Deliberately attempting to draw inspiration from the composer's homeland is

nationalism

Tchaikovsky included the national anthem of Russia in many of his pieces--indicative of what term?

nationalism

Romantics drew upon the dark side of human emotion and

nature

Art Song is written for which two?

voice/piano


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