ROMANTIC COMPOSERS

A romantic composer who earned his living as a touring virtuoso was

• Franz Liszt.

• Hector Berlioz

• Frédéric Chopin

• Franz Schubert

Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and

• polkas

• folk songs

• waltzes

• mazurkas

As a youth, Franz Liszt was influenced by the performances of

• Richard Wagner

• Hector Berlioz

• Robert Schumann

• Niccolò Paganini

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• was a child prodigy, learning music at an early age

• preferred his government position to music

• studied music theory and violin as a teenager

• began to study music theory at the age of twenty-one

Which of the following was not composed by Tchaikovsky?

• Romeo and Juliet

• Pictures at an Exhibition

• Swan Lake

• Symphony no. 6 (Pathétique)

he course of Brahms’s artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer

• Antonin Dvorák

• Robert Schumann and his wife Clara

• Franz Liszt

• Richard Wagner

Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any

• art songs

• operas

• choral works

• chamber music

Antonin Dvorák’s music was first promoted by

• Hector Berlioz

• Richard Wagner

• Johannes Brahms

• Franz Liszt

Antonin Dvorák’s Symphony no. 9

• is his most famous work

• is subtitled From the New World

• glorifies both the Czech and the American folk spirit

• all of these

Schubert wrote compositions in every musical genre except

• string quartets

• piano concertos

• symphonies

• operas