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- 1Johann Stamitz was the first composer to consistently write four-movement symphonies. In his symphonies, what type of movement, based on a popular dance, was added?Minuet
- 2Who was the first significant composer of string quartets, and is often credited with establishing that genre as a major musical medium?Haydn
- 3What composer spent most of his career serving the Esterhazy family, the most powerful noble family in Hungary?Haydn
- 4In a concerto, what is the name of the solo section (which was usually improvised in the 18th C.) just before the final orchestral ritornello?Cadenza
- 5Which of J.S. Bach's sons was trained by his father and older brother, studied and worked in Italy, and in 1762 moved to London, where he prospered as a performer, teacher, impresario, and composer?J.C. Bach
- 6Who was the impresario/violinist who persuaded Franz Joseph Haydn to come to London for two extended stays between 1791 and 1795, where Haydn conducted concerts, taught well-to-do students, and composed many works, including his twelve "London" symphonies?Salomon
- 7What was the first name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father, who was a significant composer, violinist, and author of one of the most important violin method books of his time?Leopold
- 8In what Austrian city was W.A. Mozart born, where he later held a court position under Archbishop Colloredo, and which today thrives on Mozart-related tourism?Salzburg
- 9Who played the keyboard part for most, if not all, of the first performance of Mozart's 27 piano concertos?Mozart
- 10What librettist, who later taught at Columbia University in New York City, wrote the librettos for three of Mozart's most popular operas?La Ponte
- 11Which Beethoven symphony was the first major symphony to include piccolo, contrabassoon, and three trombones in its orchestration?5
- 12Which Beethoven symphony brings back themes from all previous movements in the opening section of its last movement?9
- 13What is the name given to a series of Lieder by a single composer that tells a story, has several Lieder about the same subject, or is based on several poems by the same poet?Song Cycle
- 14What is the instrumentation for Schubert's "Trout" Quintet, one of the most famous chamber pieces of the 19th century?Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass and Piano
- 15Who composed Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria)?Franz Schubert
- 16Who composed Erlkonig?Franz Schubert
- 17Who composed Fidelio?Beethoven
- 18Who composed Frauenliebe und Leben?R. Schumann
- 19Who composed Grosse Fuge for string quartet or for piano four hands?Beethoven
- 20Who composed Missa in tempore belli (Mass in Time of War)?Haydn
- 21Who composed The Marriage of Figaro?Mozart
- 22Who composed Missa Solemnis in D Major, Op. 123?Beethoven
- 23Who composed Psalm 56 (Ich will dir ein Freudenopfer thun)?Peter
- 24Who composed the Prussian Sonatas?CPE Bach
- 25Who composed Requiem in D Minor, K 626?Mozart
- 26Who composed Sonata in C-sharp Minor ("Moonlight")?Beethoven
- 27Who composed Sonata in C Major ("Waldstein")?Beethoven
- 28Who composed Songs without Words for piano?Mendelssohn
- 29Who composed String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2 ("The Joke")?Haydn
- 30Who composed String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131?Beethoven
- 31Who composed Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 ("Eroica")?Beethoven
- 32Who composed Symphony No. 41 in C Major, ("Jupiter")?Mozart
- 33Who composed Symphony No. 45 in F-Sharp Minor ("Farewell")?Haydn
- 34Who composed Symphony No. 92 in G Major ("Oxford")?Haydn
- 35Who composed Winterreise?Franz Schubert
- 36What composer wrote 127 Lieder during the year 1840, which is one of the most prolific outputs in that genre ever?R. Schumann
- 37Who was the most prominent female pianist/piano teacher/composer of the 19th C.?Clara Schumann
- 38What Polish dance was in triple meter, and usually stressed the second beat of the measure?Mazurka
- 39What major composer included piano in every one of his compositions?Chopin
- 40Who was the most popular American-born songwriter before the Civil War?Foster
- 41Who composed Carnaval?R. Schumann
- 42Who composed Concerto for Harpsichord or Piano and Strings, Op.7, No. 5?J.C. Bach
- 43Who composed The Creation (oratorio)?Haydn
- 44Who composed Dichterliebe?R. Schumann
- 45Who composed Don Giovanni?Mozart
- 46What type of composition by New England singing school composers usually opened with a syllabic and homophonic section, followed by a passage in fee imitation, and concluded with another homophonic section?Fuguing Tune
- 47What German-speaking Protestant religious sect settled in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and had an active musical life that included both sacred and secular music-making?Moravians
- 48What is the standard instrumentation for the piano trio?Piano, violin and cello
- 49What is the standard instrumentation for the piano quintet?2 violins, viola, cello, piano
- 50What is the two-part musical form which highlights the return to the tonic in the second section by repeating the material that opened the first section?Rounded-Binary
- 51In sonata-allegro form, what is the section in which all the chief themes are presented, all in the tonic key?Recapitulation
- 52What major 18th C. Italian-born composer of 555 keyboard sonatas spent most of his career in Portugal and then Spain, somewhat isolated from the reset of European musical life?D. Scarlatti
- 53What Italian-born composer served as chapel master at the Catedral de Mexico from 1750 until his death in 1769, and was probably the best-known composer living in the New World during that time?Jerusalem
- 54Who was the first singing school teacher in what became the United States to compose and entire tunebook of his own compositions?Billings
- 55What composer wrote the monumentally important treatise, Essay on the Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1753-62)?CPE Bach
- 56What eighteenth-century European monarch maintained a flourishing musical establishment, and was a proficient flutist and composer himself?Frederick the Great
- 57The symphony first developed in the mid-eighteenth century around what Italian city?Milan
- 58What German city was known in the mid-eighteenth century for its exceptionally fine orchestra, which was under the leadership of Bohemian composer Johann Stamitz?Manheim
- 59Who composed Cosi fan tutte?Mozart
- 60Who composed Exsultate, jubilate?Mozart?
- 61Who composed Fur Elise?Beethoven
- 62Who composed The Magic Flute?Mozart
- 63Who composed Requiem in D Minor (1791)?Mozart
- 64Who composed Symphony No. 9 in D Minor ("Choral")?Beethoven
- 65Name one of the movements of the Ordinary of the mass which is omitted in a Requiem Mass.Kyrie
- 66What is the name of the sequence in the Requiem Mass, the translation of which is "Day of wrath?"Deis Irae
- 67Who was Haydn's most famous composition pupil (although the pupil was not enthused about his lessons with Haydn)?Beethoven
- 68What is the term describing a person who is unusually talented and exhibits exceptional prowess in his or her field at a very early age?Prodigy
- 69Beethoven was a virtuoso on what instrument in his earlier years?Piano
- 70What is Beethoven's Heiligenestadt Testament?A letter on his deafness
- 71Beethoven originally had planned to dedicate his Symphony No. 3 to what famous person, but changed his mind when that person declared himself emperor?Napoleon Bonaparte
- 72Which Beethoven symphony was the first symphony by a major composer to end with a theme and variations movement?3
- 73Which Beethoven symphony to was the first to begin in a minor key but end in a major key?5
- 74Which Beethoven symphony was the first symphony by a major composer to have a scherzo rather than a minuet for the third movement?2
- 75Which Beethoven symphony is the first to include a theme from an earlier movement in its last movement?5
- 76Which Beethoven symphony was the first to have five movements rather than the standard four?6
- 77How many overtures did Beethoven write for his only completed opera?4
- 78Until Beethoven's final decade when he transformed the string quartet genre radically, the string quartet always contained how many movements?4
- 79In the play and movie Amadeus, what prolific and talented composer (who was court Kapellmeister in Vienna from 1788 until 1824) was fictitiously accused of poisoning Mozart (who probably died of kidney disease)?Salieri
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