classical Vocab
This a 4 person string group
What is a string quartet?
What is 9?
This person was consider the father of the symphony
Who is Haydn?
Rossini created one of the most popular pieces of all time. seen in some cartoons
What is William Tell Overture?
This other name for a comedy opera is the root word for buffoon.
What is opera buffa?
Lost his hearing at the end of his life
Haydn taught this other famous composer from the classical era at Vienna
Who is Mozart?
Rossini was the champion of this style of opera
What is Bel Canto?
This is a german comic drama
What is a singspiel?
These two works were Mozarts most famous. Minnie Mouse's cat is named after one
What is Don Giovanni And the marriage of Figaro?
early symphonies by Haydn were called Strum and Drang meaning this
What is Storm and Stress?
CPE Bach was a teacher of this instrument
What is harpsichord?
This is a mass for the dead. Mozart has an unfinished one
What is a requiem?
Mozart wrote in all styles but this one was his most popular
What is opera?
This composer is consider one of the four pillars of the classical along with Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven
Who is Shubert?
CPE Bach was ready to bust out of the constraints of this Period of music
What is the Baroque?
This is a large orchestra work. Haydn is the father.
What is a symphony?
Went to the school of Vienna where he learned under Haydn
Who is Mozart?
Shubert was perfectly laid between these two eras
What is the classical and the romantic?
This person was the prolific composer of the Baroque period he was also CPE's father
Who is JS Bach?