chapter 21: later romantics

Question 1

franz liszt (1811 - 1886)

Answer 1

most electrifying piano virtuoso of his era, devised new playing techniques and textures for piano music, invented the solo recital

Question 2

franz liszt (1811 - 1886) major works

Answer 2

album d’un voyageur, annees de pelerinage, 19 hungarian rhapsodies, funerailles, sonata in b minor

Question 3

liszt’s piano music

Answer 3

solo recitals, 1839-47 - over 1000 solo concerts, touring europe to russia

Question 4

________ pioneered the term “recital”

Answer 4

franz liszt

Question 5

chopin’s _________lyricism, rubato, rhythmic license, harmonic innovations

Answer 5

melodic

Question 6

nicolo paganini (1782 - 1840) _____ violin virtuoso

Answer 6

italian

Question 7

Liszt had freaksihly large hands and could easily reach an interval of ______

Answer 7

13th (like chopin, a mold of his hands was made when he dies to be displayed)

Question 7

franz liszt is a _____ composer, pianist, and conductor

Answer 7

hungarian

Question 8

franz liszt retired in __________ from his career as a touring pianist

Answer 8

1848

Question 9

symphonic poem

Answer 9

one movement programmatic work that comes from a variety of sources - poems, operas, etc.

Question 10

liszt’s most famous symphonic poem

Answer 10

les preludes

Question 11

two programmatic symphonies

Answer 11

faust symphony (1854) & dante symphony (1856)

Question 12

Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896) is an ______ composer, and organist

Answer 12

austrian

Question 13

symphony no.4 fist movement

Answer 13

opens in similar manner to beethoven’s symphony no. 9

Question 14

johannes brahms (1833 - 1897) is a leading _____ composer of his time

Answer 14

german

Question 15

major works

Answer 15

4 symphonies, 2 piano concertos, violin concertos, 2 overtures, 2 serenades, 3 string quartets, 21 other chamber works, 3 piano sonatas, numerous piano pieces, a german requiem, choral works, vocal ensembles, about 200 lieder

Question 16

quintet for piano and strings in f minor, op 34 (1864), first movement

Answer 16

developing variation: continuously building on germinal ideas

Question 17

barhms’ piano music

Answer 17

hungarian dances (1872), rhapsodies

Question 18

piotr ll’yich tchaikovsky (1840 -1893) is a ________ composer

Answer 18

russian

Question 19

major works:

Answer 19

8 operas, 3 ballets, 6 symphonies, 2 piano concertos, a violin concerto, symphonic poems and overtures, chamber music and songs

Question 20

piano concerto no.1 (1875) premiered in _______

Answer 20

boston

Question 21

symphony no.4 - horn-call in introduction symbolizes _______ _____

Answer 21

unavoidable fate

Question 22

czech composers - _____ and _____

Answer 22

smetana and dvorak

Question 23

smetana - ma vlast (my country, ca. 1872 - 1878

Answer 23

six symphonic poems

Question 24

the moldau

Answer 24

best known from ma vlast, depicts river that winds through czech countryside to prague

Question 25

dvorak major works:

Answer 25

cello concerto in b minor (1894 - 1895), rusalka, symphony no. 9 in e minor, slavonic dances