Chapter 4 lesson 2

Question 1

The Romantic Period

Answer 1

(1820-1900)

Question 2

It was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the
second half the 18th century in Europe and strengthened in reaction to the Industrial revolution.

Answer 2

The Romantic movement

Question 3

He fused of ideas already associated with the term “Romantic”.

Answer 3

It was Hoffmann’s

Question 4

It was also through the writings of Hoffmann and other German authors that brought German music
to the center of musical —–.

Answer 4

Romanticism

Question 5

• A German composer and opera director during the transition from classical to Romantic
  music.
• Noted specially for his operas The freeshooter, The Magic Marksman, Euryanthe (1823),
  and Oberon (1826).
• Composed four sonatas, two concertos and the Knonzertstuck in F minor.
• his shorter piano pieces, Invitation to the Dance and Polacca Brillante.

Answer 5

1. Carl Maria Von Weber

Question 6

• Polish-French composer and pianist of the Romantic period.
• Best known for his solo pieces for piano and his piano concerti.
• Well-known works like Revolutionary Etude (Op. 10, No.12), and the Minute Waltz (OP. 64,
  No. 1)

Answer 6

2. Frederic Chopin

Question 7

• German Romantic Composer renowned particularly for his piano music, songs (lieder) and
  orchestral music.
• Many of his best-known piano pieces were written for his wife, the pianist Clara Schumann.
• Among his own important works of the decade were the majority of the pieces that
  establishes his reputation as a composer for the piano:
• Carnaval The Davidsbundler Tanze, the Symphonic Etudes, the fantasy in C, Kinderszenen,
  Kreisleriana, and others.

Answer 7

3. Robert Schumann

Question 8

• Is a piano virtuoso and composer.
• Among his many notable compositions are his 12 symphonic poems, two (completed) piano
  concerti, several sacred choral works, and a great variety of solo piano pieces.

Answer 8

4. Franz Liszt

Question 9

• Music director of the theater in Magdeburg from 1834-1836.
• Became the first music director of he theater in Riga, Russia.

Answer 9

5. Richard Wagner

Question 10

• Credited with writing in a fluent, elegant style and with a highly developed sense of both
  characterization and satire.
• He was called by Gioachino Rossini “our little Mozart of the Champs-Eysees.”

Answer 10

6. (Jacques) Jacob Offenbach

Question 11

• German composer and pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote symphonies, concerti,
  chamber music, piano works, choral compositions, and more than 200 songs.
• Was the great master of symphonic and sonata style in the second half of the 19th century.

Answer 11

7. Johannes Brahms

Question 12

• In 1874, he established himself with piano Concerto No. 1 B-flat Minor.
• His work includes 7 symphonies, 11 operas, 3 ballets, 5 suites, 3 piano concertos, a violin
  concerto, 11 overtures, 4 cantatas, 20 choral works, 3 string quartets, a string sextet, and
  more that 100 songs and piano pieces.

Answer 12

8. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Question 13

• By the age of 18, he had composed some 140 pieces, of which about 60 were lieder and 40
  were piano works.
• Originated a choir “Electra” (1880) and violinConcerto
• The song composer took a break between Salome (1905) and the Women without a Shadow
  (1917)

Answer 13

10.Richard Strauss

Question 14

Some of the famous romanticist composers are:

Answer 14

1. Carl Maria Von Weber
2. Frederic Chopin
3. Robert Schumann
4. Franz Liszt
5. Richard Wagner
6. (Jacques) Jacob Offenbach
7. Johannes Brahms
8. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
9. Nikolai Rimski Korsakov
10. Richard Strauss

Question 15

It is the most immediately and widely popular German opera that had been
written to date, established German Romantic opera.

Answer 15

• The freeshoooter