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35 Cards in this Set
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Claudio Monteverdi |
Baroque (end Renaissance to brginning of Baroque) Mostly vocal compositions |
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Henry Purcell |
Baroque English* (Baroque arrived later in England than in Germany/France due to the English Civil War) |
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Antonio Vivaldi |
Baroque Italian Many concertos for violin Notable exponent of the sonata Four Seasons* Violin concertos |
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George Frideric Handel |
Baroque German Highly prolific and influential Particularly in opera and large scale vocal works Works: Rinaldo Giuluo Cesare in Egitto Alcina Ariodante Coronation Music for the Royal Fireworks Saul Israel in Egypt Messiah |
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Johann Sebastian Bach |
Most famous as a performer - keyboardist and violinist Profound and enduring influence as a composer particularly in counterpoint German Works: The Well Tempered Clavier Suites for Cello Sonatas for Violin Partitas for Violin Brandenburg Concertos St Matthew Passion St John Passion Art of Fugue |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Classical Austrian Died at 35 Wrote a tone of music Mastered all major genres: Orchestral Chamber music Solo instrumental Choral Serious and comic opera German Singspiel Works: Idomeneo Le nozze di Figaro Die Zauberflote the Requiem**** Compositions are typical of Classical style: balanced phrase lengths, clear texture of melody plus accompaniment, sontata form*** |
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Joseph Haydn |
Classical Austrian Majority working for Esterhazy family (Hungarian Nobles) Refined and developed string quartet Sticks to sonata form and rondo Wrote 106 Symphonies Regarded as father of String Quartet and the Symphony Beethoven's teacher Works: Oratorio: The Creation The Seasons Symphonies: Farewell Surprise |
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Ludwig Van Beethoven |
Classical Pioneer of Romantic Studied with Haydn and Salieri *linking movements of a work through a single unifying motive in the Fifth Symphony Used fugues in mamy of his sonatas and string quartets Great innovator - tried to be original as much as possible |
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Robert Schumann |
Romantic German composer Cyclical approach to piano pieces (?) Profusion of Lieder, song cycles, symphonies, chamber works |
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Franz Schubert |
Romantic Austrian About 600 Lieders 8 symphonies Piano music Opera Etc |
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Felix Mendelssohn |
Romantic Lutheran German of Jewish ancestry 1809-47 His own genre - concert overture - self standing, programmatic orchestral work e.g. Hebrides overture, Songs without Words
Works: Spring song (piano) String Octet 1825 Midsummer Night's Dream overture 1826 Symphony No.3 "Scottish" Elijah (oratorio) Violin Concerto in E Minor |
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Luise Reichardt |
Romantic Female* German Daughter of composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt |
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Fanny Mendelssohn |
Romantic Female* German Felix Mendelssohn's elder sister |
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Fryderyk Chopin |
Romantic Polish pianist, composer Noted exponent of short dance pieces, suitable for salons |
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Hector Berlioz |
Romantic 1803-69 Works: Romeo et Juliette Harold en Italie Symphonie Fantastique Five Operas: Les Troyens - Virgil's Aenied |
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Franz Liszt |
Romantic Greatest pianist of his time Influenced Wagner, Strauss, Debussy Created solo recital Developed new orchestral genre: symphonic poem 13 Symphonic poems E.g. Hamlet, Orpheus, Prometheus Works: B minor sonata Hungarian Rhapsodies Nuages Gris |
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Richard Wagner |
Romantic German Composed almost exclusively operas Works: Der Ring des Nibelungen Parsifal Tristan und Isolde Controversial - anti semitism/Hitler's Third Reich? |
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Jean Sibelius |
Late 19th/Early 20th Finnish Distinct Finnish sound* National hero in Finland |
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Bedrich Smetana |
Late 19th/Early 20th Czech |
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Gustav Mahler |
Late 19th/Early 20th Austrian Conductor of Vienna Court Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Leonard Bernstein |
Late 19th/Early 20th Composer/pianist/educator Russian/jewish Works: West Side Story On the Town Jeremiah Symphony |
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The Mighty Handful |
*Moguchaya Kuchka* Mily Balakirev Aleksandr Borodin Cesar Cui Modest Mussorgsky Nikolay Rimsky Korsakov None of the had formal musical training Wanted to find a compositional approach that properly represented Russia in a time when Russian music was dominated by Western European models Imcorporate folk melodies
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Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky |
Late 19th/Early 20th Russian |
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Johannes Brahms |
Late 19th/Early 20thGermanConsidered a would-be successor of BeethovenWorks:the Fourth SymphonyViolin ConcertoEin deutsches RequiemHungarian DancezLibeslieder Walzer |
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Claude Debussy |
Late 19th/Early 20th French Innovated in harmony and timbre Influenced by Impressionism |
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Mauric Ravel |
Late 19th/Early 20thFrenchUsed unusual chords and bitonalityInfluenced by Impressionism |
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Edward Elgar |
Late 19th/Early 20th English |
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Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Late 19th/Early 20th English *The Lark Ascending* |
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Holst |
Late 19th/Early 20th English |
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Arnold Schoenberg |
Late 19th/Early 20th Austrian Pioneer of Serialism Works: Verklarte Nacht Erwartung Variations for the Orchestra |
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Anton Webern |
Late 19th/Early 20th Austrian Schoenberg's student |
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Pierre Boulez |
Late 19th/Early 20th French Leading figure in postwar serialism |
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Igor Stravinsky |
Russian 1882 - 1971 Works The Rite of Spring The Firebird Petrushka Symphony in C Octet The Rake's Progress |
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Germaine Taillefere |
French 1892 - 1983 Female member of Les Six Works: Violin Concerto Cantate du Narcisse Du style gallant au style Le Marchand d'oiseaux Paris Magie Quadrille Parisiana |
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Aaron Copland |
American 1900 - 1990 Works: Billy the Kid Rodeo Appalachiab Spring Piano Concerto Piano Variations Fanfare for the Common Man El Salon Mexico |
