Composers

Question 1

Name 2 Operas by Monteverdi

Answer 1

• L’incoronazione di Poppea

- L’Orfeo

Question 2

Name the period and three ballets by Peter Tschaikowsky

Answer 2

Russian, Romantic Period

Ballets: The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty

Question 3

Name the period and three operas by Giacomo Puccini

Answer 3

Italian, Romantic Period

Operas: La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly

Question 4

Name the period and three operas by Giuseppe Verdi

Answer 4

Italian, Early Romantic

Operas: Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata

Question 5

Name the period and three Oratorios by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Answer 5

German, Early romantic

Oratorios: St. Paul, Elijah, Christus

Question 6

Composer and Lyricist of German National Anthem?

Answer 6

Music: Joseph Haydn
Lyrics: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

Question 7

Name 8 Composers from the Romantic Era

Answer 7

Johannes Brahms, Peter Tchaikovsky, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann

Question 8

Name 3-4 Composers from the Classical Era

Answer 8

Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven**, Franz Schubert

Question 9

Who was the first great master of the string quartet?

Answer 9

Franz Joseph Haydn

Question 10

Name three Masses and two Oratorios by Haydn

Answer 10

Missa in angustiis (Lord Nelson or Imperial Mass)
Missa in tempore belli
Theresienmesse

Oratorios: Die Schöpfung, Die Jahreszeiten

Question 11

Haydn date of birth and death

Answer 11

1732-1809

Question 12

Name 4 composers from the Baroque Era

Answer 12

Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi

Question 13

Name 3 Operas and 3 Oratorios by Handel

Answer 13

Operas: Radamisto, Ottone, Giulio Cesare
Oratorios: Saul, Messiah, Israel in Ägypten

Question 14

Name 3 works by Vivaldi

Answer 14

Le quattro stagioni, Ottone in villa (opera), L’incoronazione di Dario (opera)

Question 15

Mozart date of birth and death, location of birth

Answer 15

1756-1791, Salzburg

Question 16

Name Mozart’s three Italian Operas and their librettist

Answer 16

Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte,

Lorenzo da Ponte.

Question 17

Difference between Haydn and Mozart?

Answer 17

Haydn: Unitary motiviert concentration

Mozart: melodic abundance

Question 18

Name three Romantic poets from whose poetry Schubert adapted his Lieder?

Answer 18

Göthe, Heinrich Heine, Schiller

Question 19

Name an Operetta and its composer

Answer 19

Die Fledermaus von Johan Strauss