Bel Canto

Verismo Opera

Nationalism

Program Music

Absolute music

Ballet

Piano virtuoso

Bel Canto Opera

Bel Canto opera was famous in

Dvorak immigrated to which country?

The Mighty Five (handful) is from

Chopin grew up in

Bayreuth is part of

Wrote a symphony for 1000 performers

Where did Frederic Chopin spend the first half of his life?

What was the likely cause of Frederic Chopin's death?

What did Chopin plan to do with his physical heart after his death?

Where was Franz Liszt born?

Which language could Franz Liszt not speak despite being born in Hungary?

What was the style of Franz Liszt's early compositions influenced by?

What did Franz Liszt want to become before pursuing a career in music?

This composer’s most famous operas today are The Barber of Seville and William Tell.

The Italian term for “beautiful singing” is:

The terms “prima donna” and “diva” both refer to the heroine of the opera and are thus interchangeable.

Which style of opera did Verdi compose?

During his lifetime, he was the most popular opera composer in Europe and even today his operas are performed more than those by any other composer.

What is a lied?

I didn't write Italian Opera

I came to America

I enjoyed writing opera about mythology

My Symphony was fantastique

I like the Idee Fixe so much that I use Leitmotifs in my opera

I am not programatic

My opera is verismo

The New World Symphony's famous 2nd movement featured this instrument

I wrote the Barber of Seville (which is a prequel to The Marriage of Figaro)

The Romantic Era was from

I wrote La Traviata!

I wrote Tristan and Isolde

I wrote ballet, which means not having to develop themes!

I wrote the Erlkonig

I was Polish, though my name is not

I had a patroness (as long as we didn't meet)

What is the typical subject matter of realistic opera?

Verismo (or Realistic) operas generally have a happy ending.

This composer spent his short life entirely in Paris. The premiere of his masterpiece was a flop because Parisian audiences thought the subject matter too degrading, though now it is considered the world’s most popular opera.

Exiled from Germany and its opera houses, he lived in Switzerland for twelve years, where he began work on his massive Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). Publishers were initially reluctant to support the Ring cycle, so he interrupted work on it to compose more manageable dramas such as Tristan und Isolde (1865) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, 1868).

The Bayreuth Festival features works by this composer:

This term, literally meaning “total art work,” describes the unification of all the arts (poetry, music, acting, set design, etc.) for a single dramatic purpose.

This operatic term describes a melodic gesture associated with a person, object, or idea.

Which composition is an example of the program symphony?

Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, Musorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, and Strauss’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra are all examples of the:

Which instrument is a low-sounding oboe?

What was the typical size of the late nineteenth-century orchestra?

As a boy, he studied the music of Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven, and in order to use good instruments, he practiced daily in the showrooms of local piano stores. He earned money at night by playing on out-of-tune pianos in “stimulation bars.” Although his formal education never went past primary school, he was awarded honorary degrees from Cambridge University (1876) and Breslau University (1879).

What is the term for instrumental music that is free of a text or any preexisting program?

Which composition is an example of absolute music?

Which composer brought the orchestral Lied to maturity?

He began his career as an orchestral conductor in provincial towns, but gradually worked into larger and more important musical centers, eventually leading the Vienna Court Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic for ten tumultuous concert seasons.