Exam 2 - People

Question 1

Emperor Joseph II

Answer 1

(classical) emperor over the Hapsburg empire (Vienna), supported the arts, free speech

Question 2

King Louis XIV

Answer 2

(late Baroque) popularized the minuet dance in his court

Question 3

Farinelli

Answer 3

(Baroque) famous castrato singer

Question 4

Franz Joseph Haydn

Answer 4

(classical) son of wheelwright employed by Esterházy fam, commissioned after retirement in London, hence the London symphonies

Question 5

Antonio Vivaldi

Answer 5

(Baroque) performed at the house for girls, Amazing violinist

Question 6

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 6

(late Baroque, classical) enlightenment thinker, helped create opera seria

Question 7

Johann Sebastian Bach

Answer 7

(Baroque) cantor of the Leipzig church of saint Thomas, wrote many chorales

Question 8

George Frederic Handel

Answer 8

(Late Baroque) famous for his oratorios, Messiah

Question 9

Johann Peter Salomon

Answer 9

concert imparsario (producer) commissioned Haydn for his London Symphonies

Question 10

Wolfgang A. Mozart

Answer 10

(classical) child prodigy, moved to Vienna, compositions were “too hard” died at the age of 35, opera master of the classical period, “student” of Gluck

Question 11

Lorenzo da Ponte

Answer 11

wrote the Libretti for Don Giovani by Mozart

Question 12

Prince Nikolaus Esterházy

Answer 12

employer of Haydn outside Vienna

Question 13

Christoph Willibald von Gluck

Answer 13

(classical) Opera reformer, smaller ensembles, 3D characters, simpler

Question 14

Charles Jennens

Answer 14

wrote the libretto for Handels Messiah