Composer Trivia Flashcards
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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 specializing 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, made famous through his operas, oratoriums, anthems, and organ concertos. Having composed over 40 operas in the course of more than 30 years, he has been made famous 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, 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, having 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, and during his life was said to be 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, and was 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’, and he is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, his influence widespread over Europe during his life.
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Béla Viktor János Bartók (1881-1945), was a Hungarian composer and pianist, and 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, specializing 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 Ludvig 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, and 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, 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, among creating the instrumental ballad, 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, their relationship 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












































































