Early Classical Innovations
This cultural movement promoted reason, individual rights, and a return to nature, which influenced music to become simpler, more expressive, and accessible to a wider audience.
Enlightenment
The School Joseph Stamitz founded was named ____
The two types of opera
Opera Seria
Opera Buffa
Haydn's main patronage was from this family, located in what is now present-day Hungary.
The Esterházys
This affliction informed much of Beethoven's personal life and his compositions.
Deafness
This became the main structure for first movements in Classical symphonies, sonatas, and other instrumental works
Sonata Form
Stamitz’s orchestral innovations, particularly in _______ and orchestration, were significant in the development of the Classical symphony.
Dynamics
He was an important composer of Opera Seria
Cristoph Willibald Gluck
Haydn established the conversational, balanced style that became the standard for this ensemble
The String Quartet
His middle period, generally spanning the years 1802 to 1812. became known as ____
The Heroic Period
One word that describes melodic, harmonic and structural composing in the early Classical Era.
Simplification
A passage with a rising arpeggio and crescendo
Mannheim Rocket
Gluck's most well known opera
Orfeo and Euridice
Most of Mozart's works were composed here.
Vienna
His middle period was marked by a turbulent socio-political climate that deeply influenced his life and music, including these Wars and Beethoven's initial admiration, and later disillusionment with the instigator, who at first presented as a man of the people, but then became a dictator.
Napolean, and the Napoleanic Wars
A form that became the main structure for first movements in Classical symphonies, sonatas, and other instrumental works is called _______
Sonata Form
The four-movement structure: a fast opening movement, a slow lyrical second movement, a minuet or dance-inspired third movement, and a lively, fast-paced finale became the standard for
Symphonies
He was an important composer of Opera Buffa
Giovanni
Battista Pergolesi
At this early age, Mozart wrote his first symphony
8 years old
The rise of the _____ gave Beethoven a new outlet for performances, and guaranteed his financial survival
The middle class
A notable and influential composer known for bridging the Baroque and Classical Eras
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Stamitz played this instrument
Violin
An important break from the Baroque period is that the music, singing - every aspect of opera moved from showcasing the virtuosity of the singers to this.
Serving the story line
In this Mozart opera, the figure of the Commendatore enters and asks the protagonist to repent.
When he boldly refuses he is consumed by flames.
Don Giovanni
Compositions such as this came to symbolize a universal, public struggle that transcended class distinctions
The Fifth Symphony