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Who developed lieder |
Franz Peter Schubert |
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When was Franz Peter Schubert born? |
January 31 1797 |
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What word is lieder from |
A german word for song |
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Why did schubert develop lieder |
To have a powerful dramatic impact on the listeners |
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He tapped poetry writers like? |
Johann Goethe |
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Considered the last composers of the classical period and one of the first Romantic composers? |
Franz Peter Schubert |
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What were Franz Peter Schubert's vocal works/lieder works? |
Gretchen am spinnrade, Erlkoning, ellens gesang III (Ave Maria) and schwanenge sang (swan song). Also wrote piano pieces, string quartets, operetta and the symphony no.8 in B minor (unfinished symphony) |
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When did Franz Peter Schubert die? |
Year 1828 in Vienna, Austria |
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Where was shubert born |
Himmelpfortgrund, Austria |
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Who was born on October 9, 1813 |
Giuseppe Verdi |
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When was Giuseppe Verdi born? |
October 9, 1813 |
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Where was Giuseppe born? |
Parma, Italy |
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Where did Giuseppe Verdi study? |
Studied at Busseto and later went to milan |
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What was Giuseppe's first opera? |
Oberto |
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Where was Verdi's Oberto performed? |
La Scala |
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What were Giuseppe's characters? |
Ordinary people |
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What were Giuseppe's themes? |
Serious love with an unhappy ending |
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He completed how many operas? |
25 |
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What was Giuseppe Verdi's final opera? |
All the worlds a joke |
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What were Giuseppe's much acclaimed works? |
La traviata, Rigoletto, Falstaff, Otello, and Aida |
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When and where did Giuseppe die? |
Milan, Italy on January 27, 1901 |
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Belonged to a group of composers who stressed realism |
Giacomo Puccini |
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When and where was Giacomo Puccini born? |
Was born in a POOR FAMILY on December 22 1858. In Lucca, Italy |
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Where did Giacomo Puccini study? |
Milan conservatory |
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What were puccini's famous opera? |
La boheme, tosca, madame butterfly, turandot |
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He introduced new ideas in harmony and in form, including extremes of chromaticism |
Wilhelm Richard Wagner |
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When and where was Willhelm Richard Wagner born? |
May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, Germany |
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Where did Willhelm Richard Wagner attend? |
Leipzig University |
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A new form of opera which wagner called _______________ where musical and dramatic elements were fused together |
Music drama |
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The expressiveness is aided by the use of what? |
Leitmotifs |
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What were Wagner's famous works? |
Tristan and Isolde, Die walkyrie, Die meistersinger, Tannhäuser and Parsifal |
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What was the cause of Willhelm Richard Wagner's death? |
A heart attack |
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When did wagner die? |
February 13, 1883 |
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On what age did wagner die? |
69 |
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Wagner's works would influence modern films including? |
Harry potter and Lord of the rings series |
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He never knew that audiences would come to consider his opera "Carmen" as his masterpiece, who is this |
Georges Bizet |
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What is Georges Bizet Legal name? |
Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet |
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When and where was Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet born? |
October 25, 1838 in Paris, France |
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Where did Bizet enter? |
Paris Conservatory |
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What was Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet's most famous opera? |
Carmen |
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Where is Carmen first open? |
In Paris |
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When did Bizet die? |
June 3, 1875 |
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How old was Bizet when he died ? |
36 |
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Four months later where did "carmen" open? |
Vienna, Austria |
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Were clearly evident in almost all forms of vocal music during the romantic period. |
Parallelism of music and literature |
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Composers interpret what in their music? (4 things) |
Poems, mood, atmosphere, and imagery |
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Musical compositions such as art songs was written for ____________ and ________ |
Solo voice and piano |
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Romantic artist found inspiration in what? |
Landscapes |
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What were their subjects? (3) |
Traditional myths, legends and folklore |
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It also usually deals with the? |
Supernatural, grotesque and less ordinary |
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The romantic period require singers to perform what? (3) |
Greater range of tone color, dynamic, and pitch |