Romantic Composers

This composer's best-known works include the Moonlight Sonata, Für Elise, Ode to Joy, and his Fifth Symphony, all of which he wrote after he began to suffer from severe tinnitus, a condition that eventually caused total deafness.

• Franz Schubert
• Niccolo Paganini
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Robert Schumann

A 19th-century Billy Joel who is best remembered as a prolific songwriter. His favorite genre was lieder, which just means 'songs' in German, but is used in classical music to refer to German songs from the Romantic period for the piano and voice.

• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Franz Schubert
• Frederic Chopin
• Giuseppe Verdi

Almost all of the music this composer wrote consists of short, one-movement works called character pieces. He used his music to support nationalistic sentiments that were sweeping Europe by incorporating Polish folk tune idioms into his compositions.

• Frederic Chopin
• Franz Lizst
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Johannes Brahms

a piano virtuoso who showed off his skills on trans-European concert tours. As a composer, he helped to form the New German School of music, which featured expanded musical forms and new harmonies. He also did a number of transcriptions, rewriting orchestral music so that it could be played on the piano

• Giuseppe Verdi
• Robert Schumann
• Franz Liszt
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

This composer dream was to become a piano virtuoso like Liszt, but those hopes were crushed by a permanent hand injury. After that, he focused on composition and started the New Journal of Music, a publication that critiqued new music, reviewed concerts, helped promote new composers, and revived interest in the music of older ones.

• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Franz Schubert
• Frederic Chopin
• Robert Schumann

This composer is known mainly for his operas. Several of his more catchy opera songs can be heard today outside the opera house in commercials, movies, and other pop culture reference media

• Giuseppe Verdi
• Johannes Brahms
• Franz Liszt
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

This composer is inextricably linked to the magical worlds he created for the ballet with music such as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. He has always been a crowd-pleasing favorite, and his music for The Nutcracker ballet is some of the most often-performed music in the world

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Giuseppe Verdi
• Frederic Chopin
• Johannes Brahms

This composer was more traditional than most romantics and was deeply inspired by the music of the two previous era, especially that of Bach and Mozart

• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Franz Schubert
• Robert Schumann
• Johannes Brahms

Why did the Catholic Church refuse to allow Paganini to have a Christian burial?

• He had syphilis
• Paganini was anit-Catholic
• He was a revolutionary
• Because the belief that he had sold his soul to the devil

Which of the following is NOT an opera by Rossini

• The Marriage of Figaro
• Tancredi
• Guillaume Tell (William Tell)
• The Barber of Seville