Schubert
Schubert's most notorious form/genre of music (not solo piano).
What is Lieder?
Who is Clara Wieck Schumann?
Who was Clara Schumann?
What is Abbot?
Chopin's first set of etudes are in this opus.
What is opus 10?
The city where Schubert lived the majority of his life.
What is Vienna?
The finger that Schumann permanently injured, resulting in the end of his piano performance career.
What is the ring finger, or 4th?
The age Brahms was when he met the Schumanns
What is 20?
Liszt perfected the art of this, using the compositions of other composers to allow different instrumentation to perform the works.
What is a transcription?
A short Polish character piece brought back to prominence by Chopin.
What is a Mazurka?
The age Schubert was when he died of syphillis.
What is 31?
Schumann's name for the composers fighting to defend contemporary music against its detractors.
Who are the Davidsbündler?
The two main composers of the New German School, which Brahms firmly opposed.
Who were Liszt and Wagner?
Liszt dedicated this large-scale piano work to Robert Schumann.
What is the Sonata in B minor?
The pen-name for Chopin's lifelong love.
Who is George Sand?
The musicologist who catalogued Schubert's works into D-numbers.
Who is Otto Deutsch?
The age Schumann was when he attempted to commit suicide by drowning
What is 44?
Brahms's 3rd and final piano sonata has this number of movements.
What is 5?
Who is Thalberg?
The real name of Chopin's lifelong love.
Who is Madame Aurore Dupin?
The name of the lied that Schubert quotes in the second movement of the Wanderer Fantasy, D.760.
What is "Der Wanderer"?
The movement of Schumann's Carnaval that is dedicated to Clara Wieck.
What is Chiarina?
The number of variations in total between two books of Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Paganini.
What is 28?
This book of works by Liszt includes the set "Venezia e Napoli".
What is Annees de pelerinage: Deuxieme annee (Italie)?
Chopin's cycle of 24 of these cover every major and minor key, all in opus 28.
What are preludes?