Related Names Flashcards
“7 Anniversaries”
Bernstein piano pieces
“Adoration of the Earth”
Part 1 of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”
“Agon”
Stravinsky - representative of Final Years (sparse textures)
ballet
Alex Pauk
Alexina Louie’s husband
conducts Esprit Orchestra
Alice Goodman
librettist who worked with John Adams
Antoine-Francois Marmontel
taught Debussy piano
Antonio Salieri
taught Schubert theory & composition
Italian composer, conductor
Arthur Laurents
playwright
librettist for “West Side Story”
Bishop Heironymus von Colloredo
patron and employer of Mozart
“Canticum Sacrum”
Stravinsky - representative of Final Years (twelve-tone)
choral
Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach
J.S.’s son
Charles Baudelaire
original Symbolist author
wrote collection of poems “Les Fleurs du Mal”
Charles Jennens
librettist of “Messiah”
“Chichester Psalms”
Bernstein orchestral work with chorus
Christian Neefe
taught Beethoven
Count Ferdinand von Morzin
Haydn was his Kapellmeister
Count Joseph Erdody
commissioned Haydn’s op. 76 string quartets
Count Rasumovsky
patron of Beethoven
Duke of Chandos
patron of Handel
“Dybbuk”
Bernstein ballet
Earl of Burlington
patron of Handel
“Ebony Concerto”
Stravinsky orchestral work
“Eight Instrumental Miniatures”
Stravinsky - representative of Final Years
“El Nino”
John Adams oratorio
Emanuel Schikaneder
German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer
wrote the libretto of Mozart’s
“The Magic Flute”
Emile Durand
taught Debussy harmony
Emma Bardac
Debussy’s 2nd wife after scandalous divorce from 1st wife
Emperor Joseph II
patron of Mozart (Imperial Court Chamber Music Composer)
Ernest Guiraud
taught Debussy composition
Esprit Orchestra
Louie was founding director
significant for its devotion to Canadian composers and premieres of new works
Esterhazy
Hungarian family
Haydn employed by them for several years
Schubert worked briefly for them in 1818, teaching 2 daughters
“Fancy Free”
Bernstein ballet
“Fascimile”
Bernstein ballet
“Firebird”
ballet by Stravinsky
helped establish his reputation as a composer in Paris (Ballet Russes)
“Fireworks”
Stravinsky - representative of Early Years (rich orchestration)
Franz von Schober
housed Schubert in his early 20’s which allowed Schubert to focus entirely on composing
Franz Xavier Sussmayr
student of Mozart
finished some of his work post mortem
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow
taught Handel composition & keyboard technique
Fyodor Stravinsky
Igor’s father
highly respected opera singer at Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg
Georges Sand
Aurore Dudevant
prominent novelist
had 10-year love affair with Chopin
“Gretchen am Spinnrade”
Schubert lied, one of his most famous
“Harmonium No. 1: Negative Love”
John Adams
choral
Harriet Smithson
Shakespearean actress
married Berlioz
inspiration for “Symphonie Fantastique”
Harvard
Stravinsky lectured there
Henri Meilhac
one of two librettists for “Carmen”
“I Hate Music”
Bernstein song cycle
Imperial Chapel
where Schubert attended choir school
Jane Stirling
student of Chopin
organized his last tour
Jean Lyons
Alexis Louie’s childhood piano teacher
Jerome Robbins
choreographer for “West Side Story”
Johann Christoph Bach
J.S.’s older brother
influenced Mozart
Johann Michael Vogl
baritone
close friend of Schubert
performed many of Schubert’s songs, thus giving Schubert access to supportive Viennese musical circles
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet/writer
influenced Schubert
Schubert used his poem for “Erlkonig”
Jozef Elsner
taught Chopin at Warsaw Conservatory
King George I
patron of Handel
“Les Fleurs du Mal”
by Charles Baudelaire
collection of Symbolist poems
ancillary poem: “Correspondences”
Lorenzo da Ponte
librettist for “Marriage of Figaro”
Los Angeles
where Stravinsky settled in America
Ludovic Halevy
one of two librettists for “Carmen”
Ludwig von Kochel
catalogued Mozart’s works in 1862
Majorca
where Chopin & Sand vacationed
Chopin wrote op. 28 there
Marie Recio
singer
Berlioz’s 2nd wife
“Matter of Heart”
John Adams film score
“Music for Heaven and Earth”
Alexina Louie
orchestral
“Music for Piano”
Alexina Louie
Nadezhda von Meck
Debussy employed as pianist in her house
patroness of Tchaikovsky
“Nixon in China”
John Adams opera
“O Magnum Mysterium”
Alexina Louie
orchestral piece written in memory of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould
“Oedipus Rex”
Stravinsky opera
“On the Waterfront”
Bernstein film score
Pablo Picasso
designed sets for Stravinsky (“Pulcinella”)
Paris Conservatoire
Claude Debussy attended at age 10
Paul Verlaine
French Symbolist poet
Claude Debussy set to music “Clair de lune” and six of the “Fêtes galantes”poems, forming part of the mélodie collection known as the “Recueil Vasnier”; he also made another setting of “Clair de lune”, and the poem inspired his “Suite bergamasque”.
Pauline Oliveros
taught Louie piano
“Pelleas et Melisande”
opera by Debussy
premiered 1899
Peter Sellars
stage designer, director
worked with Adam’s
“Petrushka”
ballet by Stravinsky
helped establish his reputation as a composer in Paris (Ballet Russes)
written during Early Years
“Phrygian Gates”
John Adams
piano
“Prelude, Fugue and Riffs”
Bernstein chamber work
Prince Leopold
Bach was his Kapellmeister
Prince Lichnowsky
patron of Beethoven
Prince Lobkowitz
patron of Beethoven
Prix de Rome
French scholarship to enable students to study 3-5 years in Rome
1830 - Berlioz won
1884 - Debussy won
Prosper Merimee
wrote the novella that was the basis for “Carmen” (Bizet)
“Pulcinella”
Stravinsky ballet
Queen Anne
patron of Handel
“Requiem Canticles”
Stravinsky
choral
Rimsky- Korsakov
mentored Stravinsky
Robert Craft
American composer, conductor
friend of Stravinsky
they wrote several books together
Robert Erickson
taught Louie piano
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Claude Debussy’s birthplace
“Serenade”
Bernstein orchestral work
Sergei Diaghilev
Director of Ballet Russes in Paris, founded in 1909
produced several of Stravinsky’s ballets, including “Firebird”, “Petrushka”
Stravinsky is buried near him
“Shaker Loops”
John Adams, early work
string septet
“Songfest”
Bernstein orchestral work
Sonnleithner family
hosted musical evenings showcasing Schubert’s works
St. Stephen’s Cathedral
Haydn sang in the cathedral as a choir boy
married his wife Anna Maria Aloysia there.
Stadtkonvikt
where young Schubert received training for Imperial Chapel choir school
Stephane Mellarme
Symbolist poet
inspired Debussy’s “Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune”
Stephen Sondheim
lyricist for “West Side Story”
Switzerland
where Stravinsky and his family fled when WWI started
“Symphony No. 3 (‘Kassish’)”
Bernstein symphony
“Symphony of Psalms”
Stravinsky - representative of Middle Years (emotional restraint, balance, etc.)
choral
“The Owl and the Pussycat”
Stravinsky vocal piece
“The Rake’s Progress”
Stravinsky - representative of Middle Years (Neo-Classical)
opera
The Royal Academy of Music
Handel cofounded
“The Sacrifice”
Part 2 of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”
“The Soldier’s Tale”
Stravinsky - representative of Transitional Years (WWI, intimate)
dramatic work
Theodore de Bainville
positive critic of “Carmen”
most reviews were negative
“Trouble in Tahiti”
Bernstein opera
UCLA
Stravinsky lectured there
USC
Stravinsky lectured there
Vaslav Nijinsky
choreographed “Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune” and “Rite of Spring”
danced role of puppet in “Petrushka”
Vera de Bossett
Stravinsky’s second wife
affair for almost 20 years
married in 1940, about 1 year after first wife died
Villa Medici
in Rome
where Debussy studied under Prix de Rome scholarship
Walt Disney, “Fantasia”
used Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”
Wilhelm Ernst
Duke of Weimar
Bach was his court organist and chamber musician
Wilhelm Friedrich Bach
J.S.’s son
“Winter Music”
Alexina Louie
chamber music
includes “Demon Gate” and “Edges”
Wojciech Zywny
pianist, violinist, composition
taught Chopin when he was about 6
Women’s Ensemble
eight members, incl. Alexina Louie
performed meditations through exercises in sound & movement
influenced her compositional approach by enabling her to study and feel the less tangible aspects of music
“Young People’s Concerts”
TV series by Bernstein
understood the role that mass media could play in popularizing music
“La Revue Blanche”
paper for which Debussy was a critic
“Romeo & Juliet”
inspiration for Bernstein’s “West Side Story”
Count Franz von Walsegg
commissioned Mozart’s final Requiem mass
intended to claim it as his own
