Classical

Question 1

1700 – 1800 Philosophers

Answer 1

• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Kant

Question 2

1700 – 1800 Poets

Answer 2

• Goethe
• Schiller
• Blake

Question 3

Rococo – 18th Century – artists

Answer 3

• Watteau, Tiepolo
• Hogarth, Boucher, Goya
• Reynolds – English – portraits
• Gainsborough

Question 4

Carl Heinrich Graun

Answer 4

• 1703 – 1759
• Director of the Berlin opera
• 4 masses, 2 Magnificats, 12 motets
• 48 secular cantatas, 2 Te Deum
• Representative: Der Tod Jesu (passion cantata)

Question 5

1730s – 1740s

Answer 5

Handel oratorios

Question 6

Franz Joseph Haydn

Answer 6

• 1732 – 1809 – Classical – Symphonies/String Quartets
• 14 masses (6 large)
  
  • St. Cecelia, Theresa Mass, Lord Nelson
  • Pauken, Harmonie, Heiligmesse
• Over Forty Canons
• Large: The Creation, The Seasons, Te Deum
• 13 part songs, 1 madrigal

Question 7

Johannes Herbst

Answer 7

• 1735 – 1812
• Classical
• German – American
• Moravian
• 180 accompanied Anthems (German text)

Question 8

1740 – 1780

Answer 8

• Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria
• Mozart, Haydn

Question 9

William Billings

Answer 9

• 1746 – 1800
• American (first noted American composer)
• 51 fuging tunes, 52 anthems, 4 canons
• I Am The Rose Of Sharon

Question 10

W. A. Mozart

Answer 10

• 1756 – 1791 - Austrian Classical
• 18 masses, 1 Requiem, 4 Litanies
• 2 Vespers, Canons
• Representative: Ave Verum Corpus

Question 11

Luigi Cherubini

Answer 11

• 1760 – 1842
• 11 masses
• 2 requiems
  
  • 1 SATB
  • 1 TTB

Question 12

Ludwig van Beethoven

Answer 12

• 1770 – 1827
• Christ on the Mount of Olives
• Missa Solemnis
• Choral Fantasy
• 9th Symphony

Question 13

1776

Answer 13

• American Declaration of Independence
• Gluck opera

Question 14

1789

Answer 14

• American Constitution
• French Revolution
• Haydn and Mozart at peak

Question 15

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Answer 15

• 1792 – 1886
• Italian, Bel Canto (“Italian Mozart”)
• 15 Cantatas
• Messa Solenne (1820)
• Stabat mater (1842)
• Petite Messe Solenelle (1863)