3 - Composer History Trivia Flashcards
Learn about the history of great composers, their accomplishments and their contributions to the musical world. Over the years, the greatest composers of our time have created countless works of art, inspired thousands and shown the world that the boundaries for music are limitless. UltimateMusicTheory.com
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Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was an Austrian composer who, despite his early death, was praised by the likes of Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms among others.
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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist and music teacher, was one of the great masters of Romantic music.
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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was an Italian Romantic composer who specialized in opera. Over 100 years after his death, Verdi’s masterworks continue to dominate his field of composition.
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Johan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist and violinist, who, over the years, created several of the most famous classical Baroque pieces of all time, bringing the genre to its peak.
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1891), a German composer and pianist, was a leader of the Romantic period.
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George Frederic Handel (1685-1759) was a German-born British baroque composer. He became famous through his operas, oratoriums, anthems and organ concertos. He composed over 40 operas in the course of more than 30 years. He gained fame through works such as Music for the Royal Fireworks, Water Music and Messiah.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was regarded as one of the most famous and influential composers of all time. His great fame rests in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music.
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer, conductor, theater director and essayist known most notably for his operas. He produced such works as “Ride of the Valkyries” and “Here Comes the Bride”.
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Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a German composer and influential music critic, who later worked with Johannes Brahms, helping him establish himself as an extraordinary pianist and composer.
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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and organist of the early Romantic period. One of the most popular compsers of the Romantic period, he is noted for such works as his Overture and his work on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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Franz Liszt (1811-1886), a Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist, was known for his extraordinary skills as a performer. During his life, he was called the greatest pianist of all time.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was arguably the most established composer of the Classical era, having created over 600 works. His music is regarded as the pinnacle of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music.
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678 -1741) was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist born in Venice. His best known work is a series of violin concertos known as ‘The Four Seasons’. He is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers. His influence was widespread over Europe during his life.
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Béla Viktor János Bartók (1881-1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the most important composers of the 20th century.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic era. He specialized in symphonies, operas, ballets, as well as instrumental and chamber music. Some of his most famous works include 1812 Overture and The Nutcracker.
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Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was an Austrian composer, close friend of Amadeus Mozart and teacher to Ludwig van Beethoven. He is considered one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period.
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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was a prominent French composer associated with Impressionist music. He is known by most from his orchestral work Boléro, as well as his piano compositions that consistently demand a great deal of virtuosity from the performer.
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Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) was a Czech composer greatly influenced by Moravian and Bohemian folk music. He was largely known as one of the first composers to combine aspects of folk music into the 19th century Romantic era.
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a French composer known for his Impressionist work in the 19th and early 20th century. Alongside Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent composers of Impressionist music.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was widely known as one of the last greats of the Russian period of Romanticism. He was a composer and conductor, as well as one of the finest pianists of his time.
Which 19th-century composer and pianist was it that invented the musical form known as the instrumental ballad?
Frédéric Chopin. Along with creating the instrumental ballad, he also made spectacular innovations to the piano sonata, mazurka, nocturne, waltz, the polonaise, étude, impromptu and prélude.
This famous composer of the 18th-century kept a parrot that could sing the opening lines of the Austrian Hymn.
Joseph Haydn. The parrot resided in his studio.

Who was it that, in addition to writing letters, sent payments to Tchaikovsky of 6,000 rubles annually to have him commission chamber pieces?
Exchanging a good deal over 1000 letters, Nadezhda von Meck was Tchaikovsky’s close friend. They never met in person - their relationship was created only from writing each other.

Which composer, while still a child at age 7, moved with his family to the Saxon Palace, living on the grounds where his father taught French at the Warsaw Lyceum?
Frédéric Chopin. In 1817, the Saxon Palace was requisitioned for military purposes by Grand Duke Constantine, and the Lyceum was moved to the Kazimierz Palace, which was also home to the newly founded Warsaw University












































































