Classical Composers
Classical Instruments
Classical Terms
Classicism in the Arts
Classical Forms
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born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1756. At the age of six, he could play the harpsichord and violin, compose, and performed in Munich and Vienna. Between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart was taken on tours of Europe and England, organized by his father, Leopold Mozart, a Salzburg court composer. Although he was away from home more than half of the time, he produced a steady stream of compositions during this period.
Who was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
100
Hardly sturdier in framing than a contemporary harpsichord, with thin strings of low tensile strength steel and brass and small, tubular-shaped hammers. During the Classical era, when pianos first became used widely by important composers, the piano was only somewhat more robust than in Cristofori's time
What is Piano
100
A short closing section found at the end of a movement or piece.
What is coda?
100
Shortly after Beethoven's death, the Moonlight Sonata was given it's title by this poet.
Who is Ludwig Rellstab?
100
Establishes a home key, hen moves or modulates to another key, and ultimately returns to the home key.
What is sonata-allegro form?
200
Born in the Rohrau, Austria, in 1732. At age eight he was accepted as a choirboy at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. When he left St. Stephen's in 1749, he became an assistant to Nicola Porpora. In 1759, he worked briefly as musical director for Count Morzin, and in 1761 was employed as assistant music director and then music director for the Esterhazy family, residing at their estate. He remained with the Esterhazys for nearly thirty years, until 1790.
Who was Franz Joseph Haydn?
200
A family of musical instrument of the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds,it is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening.
What is Flute?
200
A composition whose ensemble's size is in between Chamber & Symphonic music
What is Serenade?
200
Beethoven dedicated the Moonlight Sonata to this student, of which he was enamored by.
Who is Countess Giuletta Guicciardi?
200
The mass continued to be an important form for each of the three primary Classical composers. During the Classical period, masses involved orchestra, soloists, and choir in a fully integrated work, utilizing organizational principles derived from instrumental forms.
What is Mass?
300
Born in Bonn, Germany, in 1770. He came to Vienna in 1792, where he studied with Haydn and Albrechtsberger. His first public performances in Vienna as a pianist and composer came in 1795.
Who was Ludwig van Beethoven?
300
A large instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments.
What is Orchestra?
300
A musical composition that does NOT tell a story or create imagery.
What is Absolute Music?
300
This new instrument, credited to harpsichord builder Bartolomeo Cristofori, for building this instrument; described as a harpsichord "that plays both soft and loud."
What is the pianoforte?
300
Although many musical settings of the Requiem were composed during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the Classical period produced a setting by Mozart (completed by a student following Mozart's death) that has become a staple of the choral repertoire and two settings by Cherubini that are also often performed.
What is Requiem?
400
A German composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.
Who is Christoph Willibald Ritter?
400
Group nickname given to Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert
What is Viennese School?
400
This work by Mozart combines elements of comic opera bufa with those of more complex opera Seria
What is Don Giovanni?
400
A symphony which includes sections written for choir and orchestra. The earliest and probably best known example of this is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, incorporating choir and soloists in the fourth movement.
What is Choral Symphony?
500
An Italian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg Monarchy.
Who is Antonio Salieri ?
500
A larger, multi-movement work for a large instrumental ensemble (Beethoven wrote 9)
What is Symphony?
500
This is the hall in which Haydn presented his symphonies.
What is Esteraza Palace
500
Wrote two settings of this service each of which includes psalms and the Magnificat, written for choir, quartet of soloists, and orchestra.
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