Quiz 1: Liszt

Question 1

Who was Liszt?

Answer 1

Hungarian composer and one of the greatest pianists of his time.

Question 2

He was greatly influenced by ________

Answer 2

Paganini

Question 3

He introduced the _______

Answer 3

Recital

Question 4

Characteristics of his early music

Answer 4

Very virtuosic, harmonic innovations. Exploits many effects on the piano. Many transcriptions, paraphrases, and lighter pieces, including 19 Hungarian rhapsodies.

Question 5

Late music

Answer 5

Uses more unconventional harmonies, augmented chords, polychords and ambiguous tonality. Eg. Csardas Macabre, Nuage Gris, Bagatelle sans tonalite. He anticipated Impressionism and Debussy.

Question 6

Mephisto Waltz was based on a poem by _______

Answer 6

Nikolaus Lenau.

Question 7

Mephisto Waltz is an example of ________ music

Answer 7

program

Question 8

Nuages Gris

Answer 8

It is one of Liszt’s most experimental solo piano works.

Question 9

Liszt wrote ___ Hungarian rhapsodies

Answer 9

19

Question 10

Liszt wrote __ Symphonic poems for _________

Answer 10

13, orchestra

Question 11

Liszt’s most famous Symphony

Answer 11

Faust

Question 12

Liszt’s symphony is a ____

Answer 12

cyclic work

Question 13

Name the movements of Liszt’s Symphony

Answer 13

1. Faust
2. Gretchen
3. Mephistopheles

Question 14

Liszt got inspired by which Beethoven symphony, which movement and what characteristic?

Answer 14

Beethoven’s 9th symphony, 3rd movement, had no themes of his own