Composer Spotlight: Chopin

Chopin's 21 ______________, meaning "night pieces" are as different as 21 different nights.

• concertos

• sonatas

• symphonies

• nocturnes

Each features a _____________ tune and a musical ____________ is usually heard.

• sing-able; retrograde

• striking; contrast

• familiar; development

• none of these

Chopin was born near Warsaw, ___________ and ended up settling in ____________.

• Germany; Spain

• Belgium; Russia

• Poland; France

• Ireland; Scotland

He acquired a lifelong taste for life in _____________________.

• the United States

• Russia

• Hawaii

• high society

He loved the concert life and preferred to perform in the largest houses available.

• True

• False

He wrote many Symphonies and Concertos as this was his preferred medium for which to compose.

• True

• False

Chopin toured ___________ and _____________ unhappily in 1848 and died the next year of tuberculosis.

• England; Scotland

• Bulgaria; Switzerland

• Wales; Denmark

• none of these

His writing for the piano is known for its chromaticism and ________________ of the melodic line

• simplicity

• sing-ability

• destruction

• decorations

In his formal structures he avoids _________ returns and his music seems to grow __________________ in an almost improvisational way

• many; simpler

• literal; improvisational

• rhythmic; harmonically

• none of these