Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Classical Factoids
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100
Haydn was good friends with this other classical composer.
Mozart
100
Mozart was born here.
Salzburg
100
Beethoven was born in this country.
Germany
100
What years did the Classical Period take place?
1750 - 1820
100
This was Mozart's wife's name.
Constanze
200
17 year old Haydn lost his job singing in a choir because this happened.
Voice changed
200
What two composers were big influences on Mozart?
Bach and Handel
200
During Beethoven's early period he was very similar to these two classical composers.
Haydn and Mozart
200
The classical period had a stress on balance and this.
clarity of structure
200
This composer liked to use humor in his music.
Haydn
300
There are this many movements in Haydn's Farewell Symphony.
4
300
This composer wanted to be taught by Mozart but it never worked out.
Beethoven
300
In what year did Beethoven START to lose his hearing?
1796
300
What were the best inventions of the Classical Period? (there are two)
Symphony and quartet
300
Who was the first freelancd composer?
Mozart
400
Most of Haydn's career was spent working for this family.
Esterhazy
400
What was the name of the composition that Mozart never finished?
Requiem
400
How many symphonies did Beethoven write?
9
400
Of the big three Classical composers one of them taught the other two....who was it?
Haydn
400
What city did the big three Classical composers all study?
Vienna
500
Haydn was the father of these two composition styles.
Symphony and quartet
500
This is the total number of compositions that Mozart wrote.
626
500
What year was Beethoven's first major performance?
1795
500
Name two important things that were happening historically in Europe during the Classical Period.
Industrial Revolution, machines, French Revolution, Napoleonic War
500
Which composer bridged the Classical and Romantic musical periods?
Beethoven
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