Chapter 4 lesson 1 composers

Question 1

A German composer known for his works for organ and one of the greatest organ master of
the generation before Johann Sebastian Bach.

Answer 1

Johann Pachelbel

Question 2

Studied music at Altdorf and Regensburg and held post as organist in Vienna, Stuttgart, and
other cities.

Answer 2

Johann Pachelbel

Question 3

His popular Pachelbel’s Canon in D was written for three violines and Basso Continou and
was followed by a gigue in the same key as well as the Chaconne in F minor for organ and
the Hexachordum Apollinis, a set of keyboard variation.

Answer 3

Johann Pachelbel

Question 4

• Nicknamed il Prete Rosso (the Red Preist), was a venetian preist and baroque music
  composer, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist.
• In September 1703, Vivaldi became maestro di violin (Master of violin) at an orphanage
  called the Pio Ospedale della Pieta in Venice
• One of the baroque era’s great composers, who loves violin.

Answer 4

Antonio Vivaldi

Question 5

• Composer of baroque era and the most celebrated member of a large family of north German
  musicians.
• One of the greatest composers of all time.
• He compostions include hundred of cantatas, both sacred and secular.
• Composed latin church music passions, oratorios and motets.

Answer 5

3. Johann Sebastian Bach

Question 6

• Germ-born English composer of the late baroque era.
• Noted particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositions.
• Wrote the most famous of all oratorios, Messiah (1741), water music (1717), and music for
  the royal fireworks (1749)

Answer 6

4. George Frederick Handel

Question 7

• Ranked among the greatest composers of the late classical and early Romantic eras and is
  one of the most frequently performed composers of the early 19th century.
• He bridged the worlds of Classical and Romantic music, noted for the melody and
  harmony in his songs lieder and chamber music.
• Among other works are symphony no.9 in C major (the great;1828), Symphony in B Minor,
  masses and piano works.

Answer 7

5. Franz Peter Schubert

Question 8

• Austrian composer who was one of the most important figures in the development of the
  classical style in music during the 18th century.
• The chief composer of the era which written from the stabat Mater (1767) to the large-
  scale Missa Sancti Nicolai (1772).
• Important works from this period are the string quarters of Opus 20, the Piano Sonata
  in C minor and the symphonies in minor keys.

Answer 8

1. Josef Haydin.

Question 9

Known as the father of quartet and the father of Symphony.

Answer 9

1. Josef Haydin.

Question 10

• Considered greatest composer in the history of Western music.

Answer 10

2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Question 11

• A German composer.
• His compositions is to be found the strongest assertion of the human will an all music, if
  not in all art.
• In musical form he was considerable innovator, widening the scope of sonata,
  symphony, concerto, and quartet.

Answer 11

3. Ludwig Van Beethoven