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German Lieder Exam
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- 1What were the dates of Carl Zelter?1758-1832
- 2Lieder before Schubert is considered serious art music T or F?False
- 3What Schubert composition is said to have revolutionized lieder?Gretchen am Spinnrade
- 4What year was Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade composed?1814
- 5Name the composer: "The noble simplicity of song"C.P.E. Bach
- 6What were the dates of E.T.A Hoffman?1776-1822
- 7"the very nature of the lied is to stir the innermost soul by means of the simplest melody and the simplest modulation..."E.T.A Hoffman
- 8“the greater part of our ills are of our own making, and we might have avoided them, nearly all, by adhering to that simple, uniform, and solitary manner of life which nature has prescribed”Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1755
- 9leading figures in the literary movement towards simplicity:Johann Cristoph Gottsched, Johann Adolf Scheibe, Friedrich von Hagedorn and Johann Peter Uz
- 10thesis: 18th c. lieder was concerned with simplicity and naturalness, while art was corrupt and unnecessarily complicatedParsons
- 11What were the dates of Franz Schubert1797-1828
- 12What were the dates of Hugo Wolf?1860-1903
- 13Dates of Clara Schumann?1819-1896
- 14Dates of Robert Schumann?1810-1856
- 15Year was Robert Schumann's "Year of Song" (Liederjahr)?February 1840-January 1841
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