Composers and Their Works Flashcards
Johann Sebastian Bach *6
German Baroque Composer (1685 – 28 July 1750)
Brandenburg Concertos (1-6) The Well Tempered Clavier Toccata and Fugue Goldberg Variations School for Scandal Adagio for Strings
Ludwig Van Beethoven *8
German (1770-1827) A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic
Eroica Symphony #3 Pastoral Sympothy #6 Choral Symphony #9 (Ode to Joy) Egmont Overture Fidelio (His Only Opera) Moonlight Sonata "Emperor" Piano Concerto Fur Elise
Hector Berlioz *3
French (December 1803 – 8 March 1869)
Romantic composer,
Symphonie Fantastique
Damnation of Faust
Les Troyens (Opera)
George Bizet *2
French (1838 – 3 June 1875)
Carmen (Opera, set in Seville)
L’Arlesienne
Romantic Era
Alexandr Borodin *1
Russian Russian Romantic composer, doctor and chemist. (1883-1887)
Prince Igor (Opera)
Johannes Brahms *2
German (1833 – 3 April 1897))
Hungarian Dances
Lullaby
Benjamin Britten *1
British
Billy Budd (Opera)
22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music
Alexis Chabrier *1
French Romantic
Espana
Frederic Chopin *1
Polish Romantic
Numerous Scherzo, Etudes, and Mazurkas
who wrote primarily for the solo piano
Child Prodigy
Lover of George Sand (French Authoress)
Aaron Copeland *4
American (1900-1990)
Appalachian Spring
Fanfare for the Common Man
Billy the Kid (Opera)
Music for a Great City
Claude Debussy *3
French
Clair De Lune
La Mer
Prelude, Afternoon of a Faun
Gaetano Donizetti *1
Italian
Lucia Di Lammermoor (Opera)
Antonin Dvorak *2
Czech - the “Bohemian” Composer
Humoresque
The New World Symphony
Edward Elgar *2
English
Pomp and Circumstance
Enigma Variations
George Gershwin* 3
American
Rhapsody in Blue
Porgy and Bess (Opera)
And American in Paris
Edvard Grieg *2
Norwegian
Peer Gynt
Piano Concerto in A Minor
Charles Gounod *1
French
Faust (Opera)
George Friedrich Handel *3
German Oratorio Composer, Lived at Times in England
Messiah
Water Music
Music for Royal Fireworks
Joseph Franz Haydn *4
Austrian (Nickname “papa” or “father of the symphony”)
The Creation
Surprise Symphony #94
Military Symphony #100
The Clock Symphony #101
Victor Herbert *1
Irish-American
Babes in Toyland (Opera)
Gustav Holst *1
English
The Planets
Engelbert Humperdink *1
German
Hansel and Gretel
Aram Khachaturian *1
Soviet-American
Sabre Dance
Ruggiero Leoncavallo *1
Italian
I Pagliacci (Opera)
Franz Liszt *1
Hungarian
Hungarian Rhapsody
Jules Massenet *1
French
Thais
Felix Mendelssohn *3
German, Lived for a Time in Scotland
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture
Violin Concerto in E Minor
Hebrides Overture
Gian Carlo Menotti *1
20th Century Italian
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Opera)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart *8
Austrian - Wife Constanze Weber
The Magic Flute (Opera) Symphony #40 in G Minor Jupiter Symphony #41 Elvira Madigan The Marriage of Figaro (Opera) Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera) Don Giovanni (Opera) Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A little night music)
Modest Mussorgsky *3
Russian
Night on Bare (Bald) Mountain
PIctures at an Exhibition
Boris Godunov (Opera)
Carl Orff *1
German
Carmina Burana
Jacques Offenbach *3
German
Tales of Hoffman
Orpheus in the Underworld
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Johann Pachelbel *1
German
Canon
Sergei Prokofiev *2
Russian
Peter and the Wolf
Romeo and Juliet (Opera)
Giacomo Puccini *4
Italian
Madam Butterfly (Opera)
Tosca (Opera)
La Boheme
Turandot (Unfinished Opera)
Sergei Rachmaninov *3
20th Century Russian
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Piano Concerto #2
Piano Concerto #3 (Used in the Movie SHine)
Maurice Ravel *2
French
Bolero
Mother Goose Suite
Ottorino Respighi *2
Italian
The Pines of Rome
Ancient Airs and Dances
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov *2
Russian
Flight of the Bumble Bee
Scheherazade
Gioacchino Rossini *2
Italian
William Tell OVerture
The Barber of Seville (Opera - about Figaro)
Camille Saint Saens*3
French
Danse Macabre
The Carnival of the Animals
Symphony #3, Organ Symphony
Erik Satie *1
French
Gymnopedies
Franz Schubert *4
Austrian “Lieder” Composer
Ave Maria
“The Trout” String Quartet
The Great C Major Symphony
The Unfinished Symphony
Jean Sibelius*
Finnish
Finlandia
Bedrich Smetana *2
Czecheslovakian
The Bartered Bride (Opera) Ma Vlast (My Country)
John Philip Sousa *1
American “The March King”
Stars and Stripes Forever
Johann Strauss *3
Austrian “The Waltz King”
Die Fledermaus (“The Bat” - Operetta)
The Blue Danube Waltz
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Richard Strauss *5
Austrian
Don Juan (Opera) Thus Spake Zarathustra (Theme to 2001: a Space Odyssey) Don Quixote (Opera) Der Rosenkavalier (Opera) Salome (Opera)
Igor Stravinsky *3
Russian
Firebird
Rite of Spring
Petrushka (Puppet Ballet)
Franz Von Suppe *1
Austrian
Poet and Peasant Overture
Peter Tchaikovsky *6
Russain
The Nutcracker (Ballet) Swan Lake (Ballet) 1812 OVerture Romeo and Juliet Symphony #6 (Pathetique) Eugene Onegin (Opera) The Queen of Spades
Guiseppe Verdi *5
Aida (Opera) La Traviata (Opera) -- (Alexandre Dumas, fils's 1852 play La dame aux Camélias) Rigoletto (Opera) Il Travatore (Opera) The Anvil Chorus
Antonio Vivaldi *1
Italian
The Four Seasons
Richard Wagner *7
German
Tannhauser (Opera) Parsifal (Opera) Tristan and Isolde (Opera) Lohengrin (Opera) The Ring of Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle Opera) The Flying Dutchman Ride of the Valkyries
Kurt Weill *1
German
The Threepenny Opera
Periods of Classical Music
Medieval (500–1400)
Renaissance (1400–1600)
Common practice period, which includes the Baroque (1600–1750),
Classical (1750–1830)
Romantic (1804–1910);
20th century (1901–2000) which includes the modern period (1890-1930) that overlaps from the late 19th-century, the high modern (mid 20th-century), and contemporary (1975–2000) period, the last of which overlaps into the 21st-century.
Philip Glass
USA
Einstein on the Beach
John Adams
USA
Nixon in China
