What's Opera Doc?
This is German used to describe the total art works of Richard Wagner.
What is Gesamtkunstwerk?
This composer was famously anointed by Schumann as Beethoven’s artistic heir.
Who is Johannes Brahms?
The music of this composer can be considered an example of both nationalism and exoticism.
Who is Frederic Chopin?
This composer was the first to need a booking agent to manage his busy touring schedule.
Who is Franz Liszt?
Paganini and Liszt were exemplars of this Romantic aesthetic.
What is virtuosity?
This composer’s operas frequently feature father-daughter relationships.
Who is Verdi?
This composer believed that Beethoven’s 9th Symphony signaled a unification of all the arts.
Who is Richard Wagner?
Verdi and his music became mascots for this political movement.
What is the Risorgimento?
Chopin made his career largely by performing in these types of venues.
What are salons?
Edmund Burke positions the beautiful as a classical aesthetic in contrast to this romantic aesthetic.
What is the sublime?
This Verdian chorus was often used as a theme for Italian unification movement.
What is "Va pensiero"?
This composer “rewrote” Beethoven’s 9th Symphony multiple times.
Who is Anton Bruckner?
The musical moment heard here, part of this work, depicts a particularly French past time.
What is Symphonie Fantastique?
Unusual for his era, this Romantic composer had the full support of a single royal patron.
Who is Richard Wagner?
This style of music was prized above others in the Romantic period.
What is instrumental music?
This composer was an opera conductor but never completed an opera himself.
Who is Gustav Mahler?
Beethoven penned this famous letter to his brothers in which he dedicates his life to art.
What is the Heiligenstadt Testament?
Although based in Vienna, Gustav Mahler actually came from this part of the Austrian Empire.
What is Bohemia?
Previously the aristocracy, the arbiters of taste beginning in the classical era was this population.
Who was the general public?
Mahler’s famously employed this musical device to portray conflicting or unexpected juxtapositions.
What is the musical irony?
The theater designed specially for Wagner’s vision of opera was built in this town.
What is Bayreuth?
In his music criticism, Schumann used this name, after the main character of Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio.
Who is Florestan?
Despite a successful career abroad, this composer returned to his home country in order to become director of a newly-founded national opera house.
Who is Bedrich Smetana?
Robert Schumann’s collection of critical personalities were members of this group.
What is the Davidsbund (League of David)?
The aesthetics of Italian Romanticism rejected the Northern European glorification of this.
What is suffering?