This composer was a childhood prodigy who wrote music and performed at a very early age. One of his big hits at age five: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
100
A string quartet consists of these instruments.
What are two violins, viola, and a cello?
100
Many music writers including Haydn wrote in this style of musical composition. It has four movements and played by a large ensemble which requires all four instrument families and needs a conductor to bring it together.
What is a symphony?
100
This composer wrote the opera Don Giovanni.
Who is Mozart?
200
This person discovered electricity during the Classical Era.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
The first movement of a Classical concerto is often in sonata form. In this section of the recapitulation, the soloist gets an opportunity to show off his or her virtuosity.
What is a cadenza?
200
The first movement of a symphony is often in sonata form. One of the parts of this form is where the themes return to their original presentation after a development.
What is the recapitulation?
200
An Italian comic opera.
What is an opera buffa?
300
Franz Joseph Haydn, like many other composers in the Classical Era worked under a patronage system. This Viennese family supported Haydn for over thirty years.
Who were the Esterhazy family?
300
In music of the Classical Era, composers make this the most important part of the music.
What is the melody?
300
The double exposition is often used in this type of Classical musical composition.
What is the concerto?
300
An Italian serious opera.
What is an opera seria?
400
Mozart rebelled against the social restrictions of the court and was fired by this figure in Austria.
Who is the Archbishop of Salzburg?
400
The minuet and trio is often used in this movement number of a sonata, string quartet, or symphony.
What is the third movement?
400
This composer is called "the Father of the String Quartet and the Symphony." He composed sixty-eight quartets and one hundred and four symphonies.
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
400
Music is often divided into movements. Operas are divided into these.
What are acts?
500
The French conqueror and leader in the French Revolution which ended in 1799.
Who is Napolean Bonaparte?
500
A symphony or string quartet usually has this number of movements.
What is four?
500
This woodwind instrument was first introduced in the Classical Era and was a favorite of Mozart's.
What is the clarinet?
500
In Mozart's opera, a friend of Don Giovanni who keeps a black book of all of Don Giovanni's exploits.