5.12.F - Test Review: Music of the Classical and Romantic Periods STUDY SET

Hadyn worked for the Esterhazys for how many years?

30

Although Schubert is greatly known for his songs, he composed a great deal of music in other styles as well. Which of the below is not listed as his accomplishments?

4 operas

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composing original compositions as early as what age?

5

As a child of a musician, his father taught him music at 5 years old. At what age did Liszt begin composing?

8

When Schubert was a young boy, he enrolled in Stadtkonvikt where he trained to be:

A soprano for the Imperial Court

Brahms and Schumann wrote ____________ music as opposed to Liszt and Wagner who wrote __________ music

Absolute; Programmatic

Despite their amiable relationship, plays, operas, and movies have portrayed the relationship between Mozart and Salieri as one of envy, guilt, and malice. Which of the below is not a play, opera, or movie that incorrectly portrays their relationship in this manner?

Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle

Rachmaninoff's music is difficult to play since it demands that the hand reach an interval of a(n):

Thirteenth

Which opera catapulted Mozart to fame throughout Europe?

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

While employed as the chorus master at the Würzburg Theater, he wrote the libretto and music for his first opera:

Die Feen

After years of mainly composing instrumental works, Mozart returned to composing operas. Two of his most famous operas were composed in 1786 and 1787. Select the two operas below:

Don Giovanni Le Nozze di Figaro

Chopin moved to Paris in 1831 where he acted as a teacher. While teaching, he composed what musical style to develop the player's technique?

Etudes

Select all of the below nicknames given to Haydn based on his prolific composing of these styles:

Father of the Symphony Father of the String Quartet

Debussy as an Impressionist represented the antithesis of the Conservatory composers who were led by:

Faure

Wagner's operas were revolutionary in music. Specifically, he influenced this genre which is still heard frequently today:

Film Scores

An ensemble of bells, gongs, and xylophones is called a:

Gamelan

Mozart began to travel to _____________ in order to improve his financial situation.

German cities

The classical period brought a revival of these two ancient cultures in art as well as architecture:

Greek and Roman

Which of the famous composers below did not study under Salieri?

Haydn

Antonio Salieri was taught the basics of composition by whom?

His brother

In 1802, Beethoven seriously considered suicide due to _______________.

His going deaf

Chopin requested that what part of him be returned to Poland after his death?

His heart

The French developed a style of music that broke the fundamental rules of traditional music theory in order to give glimpses of an image or theme. This is called ____________.

Impressionism

During the Romantic era, composers developed styles based on their common language and culture by using folk tunes, local dances, and legends. This is referred to as ____________.

Nationalism

What nationality was Sergei Rachmaninoff?

Russian

Schubert was expected to follow in his father's career as a:

School Teacher

Which of the below composers is considered the father of the German lied due to his prolific composing of the genre?

Schubert

Which fellow composer championed and befriended young Johannes Brahms?

Schumann

Mendelssohn wrote these pieces for piano that had 3 lines played at the same time by one person:

Songs Without Words

After the death of his parents in 1763, Salieri moved to what city to live with a well-connected nobleman?

Vienna

Verdi's third stage of operas contains influences of what other composer?

Wagner

While touring Europe, Clementi was introduced to Mozart. Mozart was thought of as more ____________ in his playing, whereas Clementi was more ____________.

emotional; technical

One way that his father promoted young Beethoven's talent was by _____________.

lying about his age

In 1798, Clementi took over Longman & Broderip. This company made ____________.

pianos

A ____________ is a long piece of music composed for a solo instrument or ensemble that consists of two to four movements. Oftentimes, the ____________ is the final movement.

sonata; rondo

How old was Muzio Clementi when he wrote his first oratorio, Martirio de' gloriosi Santi Giuliano e Celso?

thirteen

The "Ode to Joy" by Schiller was used in which of Beethoven's symphonies?

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Brahms spent much of his later years promoting the music of:

Robert Schumann

What nationality was Giuseppe Verdi?

Italian

Unlike his contemporaries who were composing in a(n) ____________ style, Rachmaninoff established his own style in the _____________ tradition.

Avant-garde; Romantic

Which of the below options was not a composer from the Classical period?

Bach

While studying with Christian Neefe in Bonn, he learned the Well-Tempered Clavier by whom?

Bach

Liszt died after contracting pneumonia at what event?

Bayreuth Festival of Wagner's music

Which of the below works by Brahms is considered by musicologists to be one of the greatest choral works of the 19th century?

Brahms' Requiem

Which of the below is not one of Tchaikovsky's ballets?

Cinderella

Tchaikovsky began music at a young age, but his family wanted him to go into what career?

Civil Service

Ludwig van Beethoven was known was the bridge between which two musical eras?

Classical and Romantic

Wagner wrote what pamphlet that attacked Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer?

Jewishness in Music

Mendelssohn founded a music school in what city that made it the musical center of Germany?

Leipzig

Mozart and his sister were both taught music at an early age by ____________.

Leopold Mozart

In his third stage, Verdi wrote 3 operas that were based on Shakespearean plays. Which of the below was not one of the Shakespeare/Verdi operas?

Midsummer Night's Dream

At the age of 22, Debussy won the Prix de Rome, and the prize was to study music in Italy. While there, he studied the works of ______________, which had a great influence on his compositional style.

Richard Wagner

A symphonic poem is all of the below except:

Orchestral music written as absolute music

Rachmaninoff was brought into the spotlight by composing this type of piece:

Piano Concerto

Originally Wagner wanted to be a:

Playwright

What nationality was Chopin?

Polish

All of the following are compositional innovations from in the Classical period except:

Polyphonic textures

In his first stage, Verdi's works resembled bel canto composers. Which of the below was not a Bel Canto Opera composer?

Puccini

Whose daughter had the Wedding March from Midsummer Night's Dream played at her wedding? This is still played at many weddings today.

Queen Victoria

From what composition is this selection 5:00

Suite Bergamasque

This symphony was nicknamed the ___________ Symphony 6:34

Surprise

Which of the below composers was not considered a member of the Russian "Five"?

Tchaikovsky

After working in civil service for 4 years, Tchaikovsky continued to focus on his music. At 23, he became a professor at:

The Moscow Conservatory

Which of the below does not describe program music?

Written as music for music's sake

Haydn became the Kapellmeister for Count Morzin in 1761. A Kapellmeister is ____________.

a music director for a nobleman or monarch