Review of Quiz 1

Question 1

Chopin’s folk influence from what country?

Answer 1

Poland

Question 2

Which composer conducted Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1827?

Answer 2

Mendelssohn

Question 3

Which famous composer did not play piano?

Answer 3

Berlioz

Question 4

Famous composer married to famous pianist?

Answer 4

Robert Schumann, married to Clara Wieck

Question 5

Name a famous programmatic overture by Mendelsohn

Answer 5

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Question 6

What is the subtitle to Beethoven’s 9th symphony?

Answer 6

Choral Symphony

Question 7

Which famous composer wrote 600 songs, despite dying at 31?

Answer 7

Schubert

Question 8

Paganini’s violin playing influenced the playing of

Answer 8

Liszt

Question 9

Beethoven’s Eroica symphony is dedicated to

Answer 9

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 10

Name the German writer of Faust

Answer 10

Goethe

Question 11

Name one opera in Der Ring Des Nebelungen

Answer 11

• Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)
• Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
• Siegfried
• Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

Question 12

Which Puccini Opera takes place in Japan?

Answer 12

Madame Butterfly

Question 13

Rossini’s last opera

Answer 13

William Tell

Question 14

Which opera begins Verdi’s third period?

Answer 14

Othello

Question 15

Wagner’s only comic opera

Answer 15

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Question 16

Which German composer excelled at grand opera in Paris?

Answer 16

Meyerbeer

Question 17

What was Verdi’s last opera?

Answer 17

Falstaff

Question 18

Verdi’s were based on texts by which writer?

Answer 18

Shakespeare

Question 19

Which composer wrote a book on orchestration?

Answer 19

Berlioz

Question 20

Who was the composer of Der Freischutz and Oberon

Answer 20

Weber

Question 21

Nocturne

Answer 21

Night Music

Short piano piece

Question 22

Etude

Answer 22

study piece

Question 23

Idee fixe

Answer 23

recurring music in the movements of a symphony

-Berlioz’s Symphony Fantastique

Question 24

Risorgimento

Answer 24

Rebirth in Italian nationalism

-Verdi

Question 25

Gesamtkunstwerk

Answer 25

Total or combination of works of art

-Wagner

Question 26

Leitmotive

Answer 26

Recurring ideas in a Wagner opera

Question 27

Music Drama

Answer 27

Term used for later Wagner operas

Question 28

Aida

Answer 28

Verdi

Question 29

Barber of Seville

Answer 29

Rossini

Question 30

La Traviata

Answer 30

Verdi (written during his middle period)

Question 31

Mikado

Answer 31

Sullivan

Question 32

Norma

Answer 32

Bellini

Question 33

Fidelio

Answer 33

Beethoven

Question 34

Carmen

Answer 34

Bizet

Question 35

Lohengrin

Answer 35

Wagner (last “opera”, called later works musical dramas”

Question 36

Madame Butterfly

Answer 36

Puccini

Question 37

Les Troyens

Answer 37

Berlioz

Question 38

Parsifal

Answer 38

Wagner

Question 39

Faust

Answer 39

Gounod

Question 40

Pastoral Symphony

Answer 40

Beethovan

6th Symphony

Question 41

Elijah

Answer 41

Mendelssohn

oratorio

Question 42

German requiem

Answer 42

Brahms

Question 43

Unfinished symphony

Answer 43

Schubert

Question 44

24 Preludes

Answer 44

Chopin

Question 45

Schwanengesang

Answer 45

Schubert

Question 46

Songs without words

Answer 46

Liszt

Question 47

Faust Symphony

Answer 47

Liszt

Question 48

Symphonie Fantastique

Answer 48

Berlioz

Question 49

Davidsbundlertanze

Answer 49

Schumann

Question 50

Revolutionary Etude

Answer 50

Chopin

Question 51

Academic Festival Overture

Answer 51

Brahms

Question 52

Moonlight Sonata

Answer 52

Beethoven

Question 53

Heligenstadt Testament

Answer 53

Letter that Beethoven wrote to his brother
he was losing his hearing
he was considering suicide, but decided to go on for the sake of his art

Question 54

Define a song cycle, and give an example of one

Answer 54

a collection of songs that collectively present a narrative

example: Schwanengesang by Schubert

Question 55

Cyclic

Answer 55

The use of the same thematic material in multiple movements of a piece.

Example: idee fixe in Symphony Fantastique