Classical Era
The Classical era began in the year 1750 and ended in this year.
What is 1820?
What is opera buffa?
The city where Franz Joseph Haydn began his musical career.
What is Vienna?
The city where W.A. Mozart was born.
What is Salzburg?
The city where Ludwig van Beethoven was born.
What is Bonn?
The age when Mozart passed away.
What is 35?
A serious or courtly opera.
What is opera seria?
Haydn wrote this many string quartets.
What is 68?
The person that Mozart married, an event that freed him from the control of his father.
Who was Constance Weber?
Beethoven's music skills impressed this composer, causing him to say, "Keep an eye on him he will make a noise in the world someday."
Who was Mozart?
This Classical era composer was the most successful in freeing himself from the patronage of an aristocratic family.
Who was Beethoven?
What is bourgeois?
The wealthy family that hired Haydn to write music in 1761.
Who were the Esterházy family?
The age that Mozart died.
What is 35?
Beethoven lost this sense but remarkably continued to write and perform music.
What is the sense of hearing?
This term means that the Classical era music was not limited by boundaries of countries or cities.
What is universal?
Who was Christopher Willibald Gluck?
Haydn's career before his voice changed at the age of 16.
What is a chorister?
A person with exceptional qualities or abilities.
What is a prodigy?
This composer did not care for Beethoven because of his temper and free spirit.
Who was Haydn?
This Classical era composer composed for an aristocratic family for the majority of his career.
Who was Franz Joseph Haydn?
The war of words know as the War of Buffoons was between these two groups.
What is French court opera and Italian comic opera?
Haydn received these two titles for his contributions to classical music.
What is "father of the symphony" and "father of the string quartet"?
Mozart was a child prodigy who began his musical career at this age.
This industry had many developments during the Classical era which allowed his music to be performed and heard throughout Europe.
What is music publishing?