Relations Flashcards
George Sand
Frederic Chopin
10 year romantic relationship. Love interest. Source of inspiration. Novelist
Franz Xavier Sussmayr
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Student of Mozart who completed Mozart’s last Requiem.
Harriet Smithson
Hector Berlioz
Wife of Berlioz. Berlioz was profoundly obsessed with her. Source of inspiration for Symphonie Fantastique.
Anna Magdalena Wilcke
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wife. Source of inspiration, court singer
Vaslav Nijinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Choreographer of the Rite of Spring
Johann Peter Salomon
Franz Joseph Haydn
Concert Promoter for a series of Haydn’s concerts in london
Sergei Diaghilev
Igor Stravinsky
Director of the Ballet Russes that was impressed by Stravinsky’s work and asked for commissions
Frederick the Great
Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach visited him in Potsdam in 1747
Dietrich Buxtehude
Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach visited in 1705 in Lubeck, great influence
Carl Philipp Emanuel
Wilhem Friedemann
Johann Christian
Johann Christoph
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sons of Bach
CPE worked in Potsdam in 1747
Succesful composers of upcoming classical era
Friedrich Wilhelm Zalchow
George Frideric Handel
Handel teacher as a child. Taught organ and composition
George Ludwig
George Frideric Handel
Elector of Hanover. Handel was his Kappelmeister/ he was patron
Queen Anne
George Frideric Handel
Gave him his annuar salary, royal commissioner in london
King George 1
King George 2
Earl of Burlington
Duke of Chandos
George Frideric Handel
Influential patrons and commissioners
John Gay
George Frideric Handel
Wrote the Beggars opera in 1728, hyper popular opera in english. Audiences were tired of italian opera because of this
