Final exam - People

Question 1

Robert Schumann

Answer 1

Romantic, fell insane, many romantic poems

Question 2

Clara Schumann

Answer 2

virtuosic piano player, helped Brahms

Question 3

Alban Berg

Answer 3

early modern, second for expressionism, wrote Wozzeck

Question 4

George Gershwin

Answer 4

modern, successfully merged Jazz and concert music

Question 5

Maurice Ravel

Answer 5

mixed classical form and jazz, between Impressionism and Neoclassism

Question 6

William Grant Still

Answer 6

modern, one of the first AA composers, pioneer in the music industry

Question 7

Hector Berlioz

Answer 7

Romantic, developed program symphonies, idee fixe

Question 8

Charles Ives

Answer 8

modern, first American modernist composer, Nationalist roots

Question 9

Steve Reich –

Answer 9

Modern, minimalist

Question 10

Igor Stravinsky

Answer 10

Early modern, famous for firebird, rite of spring, and Petrushka

Question 11

Johannes Brahms

Answer 11

Late Romantic, neoclassicism, studied with the Schumanns

Question 12

György Ligeti

Answer 12

Modern, used “sound complexes” and without a discernible meter or rhythm

Question 13

Terry Riley

Answer 13

Modern. Considered the grandfather of chance music

Question 14

Edgard Varèse

Answer 14

Modern – experimented with electronically made music

Question 15

John Cage

Answer 15

Modern, father of chance music

Question 16

Franz Liszt

Answer 16

Romantic, piano virtuoso, superstar, supporter of Wagner

Question 17

Arnold Schoenberg

Answer 17

early Modern, made serialism and sprechstimme, expressionism

Question 18

Giuseppe Verdi

Answer 18

Romantic, Opera composer, Rigoletto, represented the Italian revolution, nationalistic

Question 19

Frédéric Chopin

Answer 19

Romantic, wrote many piano character pieces, his “nocturnes”

Question 20

Gustav Mahler

Answer 20

Late Romantic, known more for conductiong, mixed old forms and new ideas

Question 21

Franz Schubert

Answer 21

Romantic, wrote many Lieder, erlkonig, “master rof the lieder”

Question 22

Richard Wagner

Answer 22

Romantic, Created the music drama, “gesamtkunstwerk” valkirie, leitmotiv,

Question 23

John Adams

Answer 23

Modern, opera and concert composer, uses some classical forms

Question 24

Aaron Copland

Answer 24

modern, began avand-guarde, Nationalist, using American music

Question 25

Fanny Mendelssohn

Answer 25

Romantic, sister of Felix,

Question 26

Felix Mendelssohn

Answer 26

Romantic. Developed the concert overture, program music

Question 27

Béla Bartók

Answer 27

Modern, varied career, Compiled and had roots in Hungarian Folk music,

Question 28

Ruth Crawford

Answer 28

Modern, one of the first Avant-Guarde composers, Pianist,

Question 29

Ludwig van Beethoven

Answer 29

classical romantic, changed sonata forms, changed music as known

Question 30

Claude Debussy

Answer 30

Early modern, border 19 and 20 century, uses all instruments for color

Question 31

Giacomo Puccini

Answer 31

Late romantic, exoticism, verismo, so popular became standard