Composers Flashcards
Paris, Prague, Jupiter, Seraglio, The Magic Flute
Wolfgang Mozart
Austrian. “Father of symphony”. Wrote more than 109 symphonies
Joseph Haydn
Wrote over 600 art songs, symphony #8 (The Unfinished) #9 (The Great) #10 (The Last)
Franz Schubert
“The Waltz King.” Blue Danube Waltz. Operetta- The Bat
Johann Strauss
Creator of 12-Tone system, Moses and Aaron, transfigured night, survivor from Warsaw
Arnold Schoenberg
Lulu and Wozzeck
Alban Berg
Great Belgium Organist
Cesar Franck
The bartered bridge, ma Vlast, the moldau
Bedrich Smetana
From the new world, Slavonic dances
Antonin Dvorak
The fairy queen, dido and Aeneas, abdelazar
Henry Purcell
Pomp and Circumstance, the Land of hope and glory
Edward Elgar
Sinfonia Antarctica, the sea symphony, the lark ascending, fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughn Williams
The planets, at the boar’s head
Gustar holst
Paul Bunyan, a young persons guide to the orchestra, peter grimes, billy budd, turn off the screw
Benjamin Britten
Finlandia
Jean Sibelius
Symphonie fastastique, Harold in Italy
Hector Berlioz
Faust
Charles Gounad
Tales of Hoffmann, Robinson Crusoe
Jacques Offenbach