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
Operas- fair maiden of Perth, pearl fishers, Carmen
Georges Bizet
Carnival of the animals, Samson and Delilah
Camille Saint-saens
Canon in D major
Johann Pachelbel
St. Matthews passion, Brandenburg, concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach
Water music, the messiah
George Fredric Handel
Kruetzer sonata, fur Elise, fidelio, creatures of Prometheus
Ludwig Von Beethoven
Songs without words, Italian symphony, a midnight summers dream
Felix Mendelssohn
Madrigals books
Claudio montiverde
Four seasons, opera- Orlando furioso
Antonio Vivaldi
Over 550 keyboard sonatas
Domenico Scarlatti
Violinist, la Campanella, 24 caprices
Nicolo Paganini
Cinderella, the Italian girl in Algiers
Gioachino Rossini
Macbeth, Ernani
Giuseppe Verde
Madam butterfly, tosca, la boheme
Giacomo Puccini
Norway: peer gynt, lyric pieces, funeral march in memory of rikard nordraak
Edvard Grieg
Poland:
Fredric Chopin
Painter, composer, prime minister of Poland
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Puss in boots
Cesar cui
Chemist discovered aldol reaction, prince igor, in the steppes of Central Asia
Alexander Borodin
Romeo and Juliet, 1812 overture, swan lake, nutcracker, sleeping beauty, queen of spades
Peter Tchaikovski
Rake’s progress, firebird, pulcinella
Igor Stravinsky
Nights in the gardens of Spain, three cornered hat
Manuel de falla
Pacific 231 locomotive sound
Arthur honegger
“March king”. Semper fidelis, Stars and Stripes, forever, Washington post march
John Phillips Sousa
Maple leaf rag, the entertainer
Scott Joplin
Rodeo, Appalachian Spring, billy the kid, Lincoln portrait, el salon mexico
Aaron Copeland
“Chance music”. Imaginary landscape, music of changes, number pieces
John cage
Nixon in China, Dr. Atomic, short ride in a fast machine
John Adams