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12 Cards in this Set
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Felix Mendelson
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1809-1847. Died at 38. German
Midsummer's Night Dream. Conservative. |
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Hector Berlioz
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1803-1869. Died at 66. French
Idee fixe. Symphonie Fantastique. Radical |
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Franz Schubert
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1797-1828. Died at 31. German.
"Father of Lied". Composed over 600 lieds. Conservative. |
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Frederic Chopin
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1810-1849. Died at 39. Polish (moved to France).
"Poet of the Piano" Radical |
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Johannes Brahms
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1833-1897. Died at 64. German.
Academic Festival Overture. Wrote 4 symphonies only. Conservative. |
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Robert Schumann
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1810-1856. Died at 46. German
New Magazine for Music. Had great influence. |
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Clara Wieck Schumann
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1819-1896. Died at 77.
Wife of Robert, friend of Brahms. Great pianist. |
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Richard Wagner
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1813-1883. Died at 70. German.
Gesamtkunstwerk (combined-art-work = realistic plays and sets). Leitmotives (light motives). Bayreuth (opera house he built). Radical |
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Wagner's Operas
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The Flying Dutchman,
Tristan und Isolde, Tannhauser, The Ring of the Nibelung, Parsifal |
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Giuseppe Verdi
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1813-1901. Died at 88. Italian.
Famous for Operas. Conservative. |
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Verdi's Operas
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Rigoletto,
Aida, Otello, Falstaff, Il Trovatore, La Forza Del Destino, Don Carlo |
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Modest Mussorsky
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1839-1881. Died at 42. Russian.
Opera: Boris Godunov. Radical. |
