Module C/D/E composers

Question 1

Adams

Answer 1

20th C Minimalist

Question 2

Adams

Answer 2

“China Gates”

Question 3

JS Bach

Answer 3

Baroque period

Question 4

JS Bach

Answer 4

born Germany 1865

Question 5

JS Bach

Answer 5

big family of musicians

Question 6

JS Bach

Answer 6

last great master of polyphony

Question 7

JS Bach

Answer 7

sang/played organs at churches

Question 8

JS Bach

Answer 8

works contain emotional and religious themes

Question 9

JS Bach

Answer 9

technical master of range and technique

Question 10

Beethoven

Answer 10

lost hearing

Question 11

Beethoven

Answer 11

born Germany 1770

Question 12

Beethoven

Answer 12

Classical period

Question 13

Beethoven

Answer 13

bad family situation/ abusive father

Question 14

Beethoven

Answer 14

concertos, string quartets, symphonies

Question 15

Beethoven

Answer 15

taken in by aristocracy

Question 16

Beethoven

Answer 16

themes of suffering and triumph

Question 17

Beethoven

Answer 17

found composing difficult

Question 18

Debussy

Answer 18

French Impressionist 20th C

Question 19

Debussy

Answer 19

revolutionary music ideas; ignored traditions of past

Question 20

Debussy

Answer 20

went to Paris Conservatory

Question 21

Debussy

Answer 21

small works, orchestral pieces, operas

Question 22

Haydn

Answer 22

original sophisticated music w/ hard to hear qualities

Question 23

Haydn

Answer 23

born Austria 1732

Question 24

Haydn

Answer 24

Baroque/Classical period

Question 25

Haydn

Answer 25

symphonies and quartets

Question 26

Hildegard

Answer 26

first female composer whose name is known

Question 27

Hildegard

Answer 27

European naturalist, had visions

Question 28

Machaut

Answer 28

born 1300 France

Question 29

Machaut

Answer 29

supplied music and poetry to great courts

Question 30

Machaut

Answer 30

wrote masses and secular music

Question 31

Machaut

Answer 31

there are few recordings of his work

Question 32

Mahler

Answer 32

Romantic, herald of Modernism

Question 33

Mahler

Answer 33

symphonic giganticism

Question 34

Mahler

Answer 34

Vienna Conservatory and Opera

Question 35

Mahler

Answer 35

led Metropolitan Opera and NY Philharmonic

Question 36

Mahler

Answer 36

born Bohemia 1860, Jewish, tragic childhood

Question 37

Mozart

Answer 37

Viennese classicist, born 1756 Austria

Question 38

Mozart

Answer 38

followed traditions and norms of the Classical Era

Question 39

Mozart

Answer 39

veiled emotions, but every part of his song was valued

Question 40

Mozart

Answer 40

concertos, chamber music, string quartets, operas

Question 41

Perotin

Answer 41

13th C sacred polyphony; began polyphonic tradition

Question 42

Purcell

Answer 42

Baroque, born England 1659

Question 43

Purcell

Answer 43

organist of Westminster Abbey

Question 44

Purcell

Answer 44

plays, cantatas, odes, opera

Question 45

Reich

Answer 45

20th C Minimalist

Question 46

Reich

Answer 46

“It’s Gonna Rain”

Question 47

Webern

Answer 47

beauty and terror of silence

Question 48

Webern

Answer 48

born Vienna 1883

Question 49

Webern

Answer 49

short pieces