Final exam Flashcards
What operas did Richard Wagner compose?
Tristan und Isolde and Ring Cycle: Die Walkure
Who was Arthur Schopenhauer?
German philosopher who influenced Wagners dramas. He argued that music was the one art that embodied the deepest reality of all human experience—our emotions and drives—and could, therefore, give immediate expression to these universal feelings and impulses in concrete, definite form without the intervention of words. Words and ideas were the product of reason, which governed only “Appearance,” whereas emotions resided in the “Will,” which he deemed the dominant and ultimate reality
Who was Giuseppe Verdi?
Italian opera composer who became a central figure in Italian opera
What operas did Verdi compose?
La Traviata and Otello
Who was Arrigo Boito?
poet and composer who worked with Verdi
Who was Giacomo Puccini?
One of the most successful Italian composer after Verdi. He was interested in realism and set his operas in a place and time that inspired him
What opera did Puccini compose?
Madama Butterfly
Who was Pietro Mascagni?
Italian composer known for his operas. His opera one-act Cavalleria Rusticana jump started the verismo movement
Who was Modest Mussorgsky?
Russian composer.
Who was Nikolai Rimsy-Korsakov?
Russian composer and apart of The Mighty five
Who was Anton Rubenstein?
virtuoso pianist and prolific composer, who founded the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1862 with a program of training on the Western model.
Who were the “Mighty Five”?
Russian composers Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, César Cui and Mily Balakirev who went against the professionalism at conservatories. They incorporated aspects of Russian folk song, modal and exotic scales, and folk polyphony, but they also extended traits from the western European composers they most admired.
Who was Alexander Pushkin?
Russian poet. Tchaikovsky based his two most important operas on his novels, Eugene Onegin (1879) and The Queen of Spades (1890).
Who was Gilbert and Sullivan?
Born in london. Gilbert was a dramatist and Sullivan was a composer. They created theatrical works together. They created the opera Pirates of Penzance
Who was Hans von Bulow?
German conductor who conducted the premieres of Wagners works Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger (The Mastersingers). The prototype of the virtuoso conductor
Who was Johannes Brahms?
German composer and pianist. Well versed in the music of the past both german and non-german. Mainly composed absolute music
Who was Anton Bruckner?
Austrian organist and composer. He admired Wagner’s style and tried to implement it into traditional symphony and church music. He was heavily influenced by Beethoven’s ninth symphony
Who was John Phillip Sousa?
American composer and conductor known primarily for his military marches. Composer of “The Stars and Stripes forever”.
Who was Gustav Mahler?
Jewish (converted to lutherism) Austro-German conductor and composer who really admired Brahms but was a avid Wagnerian. He made most of his money conducting and would write mainly in the summer between busy seasons of conducting.
Who was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
Russian composer of the 19th century who had a successful professional career and traveled throughout Europe as conductor
Who was Amy Beach and what symphony did she composes?
Boston child prodigy, pianist and composer. Gealic symphony op. 32
Who was Richard Strauss?
Dominant figure in German musical life most of his career. Very famous conductor. As a composer he is most known for his tone poems/ symphonic poems
Who was Friedrich Nietzsche?
Poet and philosopher. Wrote Thus spoke Zoroaster which Strauss used for his tone poems
What is lyric opera?
French romantic opera that has is in the middle of opera comique and grand opera