MAPEH REVIEWER MUSIC 4Q

His characters are ordinary people and not those of the royal family like those found in German operas. He insisted on a good libretto and wrote operas with political overtones and for middle-class audience.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Franz Peter Schubert

• Georges Bizet

Was born in Parma, Italy on October 9, 1813. He studied in Busseto and later went to Milan where his first opera "Oberto" was performed in La Scala, the most important opera house at the time.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Franz Peter Schubert

• Georges Bizet

Was born in a poor family on December 22, 1858 in Lucca, Italy. He studied at the Milan Conservatory.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Franz Peter Schubert

• Georges Bizet

He belonged to a group of composers who stressed realism, therefore he drew material from everyday life, rejecting heroic themes from mythology and history.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Franz Peter Schubert

• Georges Bizet

The proper name of his compositions are lieder, which is the German word for "songs". Developed lieder so that they had a powerful dramatic impact on the listeners.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Franz Peter Schubert

• Georges Bizet

He tapped the poetry of writters like Johann Goethe. He is considered the last of the Classical composers and one of the first and romantic ones. He was born on the 31st of January 1797 in Himmelpfortgrund, Austria and died in 1828 in Vienna, Austria at age 31.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Franz Peter Schubert

• Georges Bizet

Was born in Leipzig, Germany on May 22, 1813. He attended Leipzig University. He was very much inspired by Ludgwig Van Beethoven. He introduced new ideas in harmony and in form, including extremes of chromaticism.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Wilhelm Richard Wagner

• Georges Bizet

He also explored the limits of the traditional tonal system that gave keys and chords their own identities which paved the way for the rise of atonality in the 20th century. A exerted strong influence on the operatic medium.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Wilhelm Richard Wagner

• Georges Bizet

He was an advocate of new form of opera which he called "music drama" where musical and dramatic elements were fused together. He developed a compositional style in which the orchestra has of equal importance in dramatic roles as the singers themselves.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Wilhelm Richard Wagner

• Georges Bizet

Was registered with the legal name Alexandre Cesar Leopold Bizet, but was baptized and known by the latter name. He was born October 25, 1838 in Paris, France. He entered the Paris Conservatory of music at a very young age.

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Giacomo Puccini

• Wilhelm Richard Wagner

• Georges Bizet