Week 1 nyenye Flashcards
-A child prodigy gifted with photographic memory, perfect pitch
and the ability to play multiple instruments. Born in Salzburg,
Austria in January 27, 1756
-Died at the age of 35, December 5, 1791
-He is a violin virtuoso
-Learned how to play the piano at the age of 3. Wrote his first
piece at the age of 5 and Wrote his first symphony at the age of 8
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
He is Mozart’s Father and he is a succesful musician
Leopold
Before Mozart died, he uncomplety composed_________
which was for dead people.
Requiem
In what year did Mozart appeared in public as a keyboard performer?
1761
what year did Mozart traveled with his sister to the court of Prince Maximilian III of Bavaria in Munich, and at the Imperial Court in Vienna and Prague?
1762
Composed his first opera
•La Finta Semplica (Semplice).
1763
In what year did Mozart wrote the first carnival opera,
•Mitridate re di Ponto.
1770
In what year did Mozart Composed solo (three-movement)
•Motet
•Exsultate
•Jubilate
1773
wrote the Italian opera
• La finta giardiniera, K. 196.
1775
In what year did Mozart composed ballet music and new symphony in Paris.
1778
In what year did Mozart composed opera titled
• Idomeneo
1781
In this year, Mozart played his last piano concerto.
1791
Who arrived in Vienna to study with mozart and what year was it?
Beethoven, Year 1878
Born in Germany in 1770
•Known as a pianist, a composer, and a music innovator.
•He widened the scope of the following music forms:
•Sonata
•Symphony
•Concerto and
•Quartet musical forms
Ludwig Van beethoven
Beethoven He debuted his Symphony No. 3 in Napoleon’s honor, which he later renamed the?
Eroica Symphony
Beethoven never got married, but he was inlove with a woman named?
Antonie Brentano
In this year, Beethoven composed ___________, a wildly popular ballet that received 27 performances at the Imperial Court Theater.
1801, The Creatures of Prometheus
Beethoven published his _________ in 1801
Six string quartets
What did Beethoven struggled with? And at what age and year?
Being deaf, 46 Years old, 1816
Beethoven composed the famous symphonies. What are they called?
Moonlight Sonata; The kreuzer violin sonata; and Fidelio.
What is beethoven’s only
opera?
Fidelio
Austrian music composer
•8 yrs. Old when he joined the choir at St. Stephen’s Cathedral located in Vienna, Austria
•Learned violin and keyboard in Vienna
•Associated with the Viennese school
•Influential to Mozart and Beethoven
Franz Joseph Haydn
What age did Haydn die?
77 years old
For almost 30 years, Haydn’s creative life was spent in the service of ?
The Esterházy Family
