Who wrote it
Symphony #3: Eroica
This child prodigy was from Vienna and wrote a ton of music in his short life
Who is MOZART
This Romantic Era composer started his career as a music critic, but later became an important composer. It didn't hurt that his wife was a famous pianist...
Who is ROBERT SCHUMANN
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in this year
What is 1877
This 20th century composer wrote prepared piano pieces
Who is JOHN CAGE
Elijah
Who is MENDELSSOHN
This German composer was among the first to "rediscover" the music of Baroque composers. Hearing Handel's "Messiah" inspired him to write oratorios
Who is MENDELSSOHN
This Romantic composer believed that the way to have your works performed on stage was to write in the more conservative style of the past masters.
Who is BRAHMS
This VIP combined art music and jazz in his 1924 piano concerto "Rhapsody in Blue"
Who is GEORGE GERSHWIN
This handsome playboy and piano virtuoso coined the term "recital"
Who is LISZT
La Boheme
20th Century Radical composer Steve Reich composed in this style. An example is his piece "clapping music" for two sets of hands.
What is MINIMALISM
This incredibly high wind instrument was invented in the Romantic Era
What is the PICCOLO
This VIP was an opera composer who's 4 opera "Ring" cycle takes nearly 10 hours to perform
Who is RICHARD WAGNER
This Bebop trumpeter's face looked like a blowfish when he played.
Who is DIZZY GILLESPIE
Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)
This German Romantic Modernist composer wrote gigantic symphonies in the early 20th century including Symphony #2: Resurrection
Who is Gustav MAHLER
During the Romantic Era, this type of Amateur ensemble began springing up in England.
What are AMATEUR CHOIRS
This VIP wrote ballet's---one of them set off a riot at its premier in 1913
Who is STRAVINSKY
Haydn worked for this wealthy Austrian family
Who are the ESTERHAZYS
Souvenir de Puerto Rico
Who is GOTTSCHALK
This type of 20th century music is not a building material, but rather is made by combining pre-existing pieces of recording sound into a sound collage.
Musique Concrete.
This kind of amateur ensemble sprang up in late Romantic era America. This ensemble played into the creation of early jazz.
What are BRASS BANDS
The apple didn't fall far from the tree for this early Classical composer who's works helped bridge the gap between the Baroque and Classical Eras.
Who is C.P.E. Bach
This "other" French composer from the Romantic Modernists (the one not named "Debussy")
Who is RAVEL