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Edvard Grieg became the voice of what country?

Norway

American Composer- Student of Dvorak- wrote collection of spirituals

Henry Burleigh

Prominent Woman Composer of New England School

Amy Beach

American Composer - New Orleans- Blues and Jazz

Stephen Foster

English Composer much revered to this day

Sir Edward Elgar

Father of True Russian Music

Mikhail Glinka

Russian Composer - Poor Orchestrator

Modest Mussorgsky

Composer of Symphonic Poem: Scheherazade

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian Composer who admired Mendelssohn

Alexander Borodin

Professor at St. Petersburg Conservatory

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Composer of Academic Festival Overture

Johannes Brahms

Franz Shubert had a great gift for writing...

Beautiful Melodies

Composer who wrote a Treatise on Instrumentation

Hector Berlioz

5 movement Romantic Symphony was written by...

Robert Schumann OR Hector Berlioz

Idée Fixe was termed by...

Hector Berlioz

Composer of Minute Waltz

Fredrick Chopin

Music of Johannes Brahms is sometimes referred to as...

Absolute.

The Rhenish Symphony was written by

Robert Schumann

Mendelssohn wrote the Reformation Symphony on the ______ anniversary of the Lutheran Church

300th

A song cycle was held together by a SINGLE theme (t/f)

True

Verses in vocal music

Strophic

Which composer restored the neglected music of J.S. Bach?

Felix Mendelssohn

German word for song (sl. And pl.)

Leid/Leider

Composer who brought German Opera to its Culmination

Richard Wagner

History of Italian Opera is basically summed up by

Guiseppe Verdi

Gesamtkunstwerk (Music Drama) was termed by

Richard Wagner

Which of Verdi's operas is the Culmination of Opera Seria?

Otello

This opera Composer Used new harmonic elements like Whole Tone and Pentatonic Scales

Giacomo Puccini

Wagner Wrote a 4 music drama Cycle titled:

Der Ring die Niebelungen

The term Leitmotive was coined by

Richard Wagner

Sprechgesang - a new type of rececetive- was used by William Wagner. ToF

True

Most Outstanding Composer of Opera Comique

Jacques Offenbach

Opera Composer noted or exoticism

Leo Delibes

Father of 19th Century German Opera

Carl Maria von Weber

Italy's answer to Richard Wagner was known as...

Verismo Opera

Robert Le Diable was not a Verismo Opera ToF

True, it was NOT

Composer that used the Saxophone

Jules Massenet

Composer known as a principal exponent of Lyric Opera

Charles Gounod

Composer of Samson and Delilah

Camille Saint-Saëns

Amilcare Ponchielli- teacher of Puchinni and wrote la Giocanda - ToF

T

Cavalleria and I Pagliacci are performed together as a double bill- ToF

True

Composer who liked Horror Elements

Heinrich Marschner

Composer known as a fine librettist for Verdi

Arrigo Boito

Puccini Opera commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera

La Fancuilla del West