Week 2 Flashcards
a composer, a violinist, a virtuoso pianist, an organist, and a conductor
Mozart
was born in Salzburg, Austria to Leopold Mozart, a composer, a violinist, and a teacher, and Anna Maria Pertl.
Mozart
Mozart began to play tunes in the harpsichord when he was at the age of ___
3
Mozart wrote minuets for the harpsichord at the age of______
5
Mozart and his sister, Nannerl, already performed for royalties and aristocrats at the age of _____
6
Mozart composed his first opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus when he was at the age of ______
11
At what age of Mozart that Emperor Joseph II commissioned him to compose La finta semplice.
12
Apollo et Hyacinthus
Mozart’s first opera
In an article published in The telegraph, a 1993 scientific study showed that teenagers who listened to Mozart’s Sonata for two Pianos in D Major performed better in reasoning tests than adolescents who listened to something else
Mozart effect
He was an artist imbued with the idea of revolution
Beethoven
His musical talent was obvious at an early age, and he was initially harshly and intensively taught by his father Johann van Beethoven
Beethoven
had a poor music education
Beethoven
best pianist in Vienna
Beethoven
gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist
Beethoven
His music reflects the conflicts of his character and experience. His mood changes were sudden, as can be seen and felt from some of his compositions.
Beethoven
served as “Marktrichter”, an office akin to village mayor.
Haydn
What secured Haydn a place as a chorister in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, where he remained until he was 16 years old.
beauty of his voice
Father of the String Quartet
Haydn
Many of Haydn’s symphonies have been given nicknames because of their ______
characteristics
were the three great composers of the highest achievement who graced the Classical period.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Joseph Haydn
