Composer - Romantic Flashcards
(22 cards)
Berlioz - France
Learns music theory from Raueua treatise
Goes to medical school
Attends Paris conservatory
Love of literature - influences programmatic works like Symphony Fantastique
Prominent conductor throughout Europe
Friends with Mendelssohn
Piece: Grand Messe des Morts (Requiem)
Faure - France
1845-1924
Studies at Ecole Niedermeyer
Studies with Saint Sean’s
Teaches at Paris Conservatory
Student are Ravel and Boulanger
Piece: Requim - Lullaby of death, intended to be an intimate work
Saint Seans - France
Studies at Paris Conservatory
Teaches at Ecole Niedermeyer
Student was Faure
Organist at church La Madeleine
Quite famous, extensive touring as conductor
Piece: Oratorio de Noel
Verdi - Italy
Born in Northern Italy
Studies with Maestro di cappella at San Bartolomeo
Denied admission at Milan Conservatory - later named for him
Plays continuo in Haydns creation at age 20
Primarily Opera
Associated with politics - nationalistic leaning ing
Viva Veridi - viva Victor Emmanuel King of Italy
Piece: Messa de Requiem - began as a project to honor Rossini, intended to have several Italian composers and performners
Beethoven - Germany & Austria
1770-1827
Born in Bonn
Vienna
Studies with Haydn
Aristocratic contacts
Begins to go deaf in 1796
Writes Heilingenstadt testament in 1802
Involved with custody dispute over nephew Karl
Piece: Mass in C
Robert Schumann - German
Books at young age peak literary interest
Studies piano while in law school with Clara’s father
Suffers from depression
Attempts suicide
Last years of life in asylum
Piece: Vier Doppelchorige Gesange
Clara Schumann - German
1819-1896
Studies with father
Very famous concert pianist
Marries Robert in 1849
After death concertizes and promotes his music
Teaches at Hoch Conservatory
Friendship with Brahms
Output - 3 choral part songs
Brunkner - Austria
1824-1896
Catholic influence
Studies at Vienna conservatory
Time in sanatorium - struggles with self-doubt, constantly revising work
Associated with Cecilian movement
Piece: Os Justi
Fanny Hensel - Germany
1805-1847
Hamburg
Wealthy, cultured y
Sister to Felix Mendelssohn - helped each other with composition
Great pianist
Marries Wilhelmina Hensel
Women were able to be concert pianists but being composer was frowned upon
Piece: Gartenleider
Felix Mendelssohn - Germany
1809-1847
Studied mathematics and French
Child prodigy on Piano
Family moves to Berlin
Introduced to Bach and Handel and music of Palestrina
Piece: Elijah
Brahms - Germany
1833-1897
Arrangement of German folk songs for men’s chorus
Develops interest in Roma (gypsy) music
Characteristics:
Works about pain (life is endured)
Music in common with Renaissance and Baroque
Focus on imitation
Dvorak
Czech
Time in Prague
Influenced by Prague Conservatory
Professor at Prague Conservatory
Moves to NYC to become director of National Conservatory of Music
Knows Harry T Burleigh
Chsnokov - Russia
1877-1944
Studies at Moscow Synodal School
Studies at Moscow Conservatory
Choral music through and through
Conducts Moscow state choir
Gretchaninov - Russia
1864-1956
Gets late start on musical training
Studies first at Moscow Conservatory then at St. Petersburg Conservatory
Travels through Europe
Moves to US in 1939 becomes citizen
Rachmaninoff - Russia
Studies piano with mother and local teacher
Starts to study at St. Petersburg Conservatory
Transfers to Moscow Conservatory
Prominent conductor
Leaves Russia after revolution
Pearsall - England
1795-1856
Originally a lawyer
Suffers stroke and gives up law
Moves to Germany
Cecilian Movement
Piece: Sing we and chaunt it
Parry - Engald
1848-1918
Very interested in music of Richard Wagner
Works as editor for George Grove
Very much academic
Professor for Royal college of music in London
Piece: Music when soft voices die
Stanford - England
1852-1924
Noted conductor and academic
Received numerous honorary doctorates
Professor at Royal college of music
Piece: the blue bird
Edward Elgar - England
1857-1934
Plays in orchestras at the three choirs festival
Interested in music of Richard Wagner
Amy Beach - US
1867-1944
Mrs. HHA Beach - Henry Harris Aubrey Beach - physician, Harvard lecturer, amateur singer
Child prodigy
17 - plays Chopin rondo in Eb with Boston Symphony
1885 Marries - Husband asks to stop performing, Composes
Husband dies - tours
Piece: Mass in Eb
MacDowell - U.S.
1860-1908
Born in NYC
Studied at Paris Conservatory and Hoch Conservatory
Established the MacDowell Colony - home retreat for composers and artists
24 partsongs
Piece: The Brook and Slumber Song
Parker - U.S.
1863-1919
Auburndale Massachusetts
Professor of music at Yale
Piece: Hora novissima
