Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Instrumental Music
Classical Era
100
wrote many of these to be performed in small, intimate gatherings
What are string quartets?
100
developed this form for the first movement of a concerto
What is double-exposition form?
100
condition from which he suffered
What is deafness?
100
string quartet instrumentation
What is 2 violins, viola, and cello?
100
Italian comic opera
What is opera buffa?
200
Haydn's career was spent in
What is the patronage system and the concert system?
200
Mozart moved here to become a freelance musician.
Where is Vienna?
200
performing instrument
What is piano?
200
most widely used form developed in the era
What is sonata (-allegro) form?
200
primary purpose(s) of music during the Enlightenment
What are to please and entertain?
300
2nd movement (slow) form
What is a variety of forms?
300
Mozart's birthplace
What is Salzburg?
300
genre most associated with him
What is symphony?
300
form possibly diagrammed: ABACABA
What is rondo form?
400
number of symphonies composed
What is over 100?
400
form used for 1st movement of Symphony No. 40 (standard form)
What is sonata?
400
brusque and strong willed
What are Beethoven's personality traits?
400
favorite instrument used for sonatas
What is piano?
400
number of musicians needed to perform the Classical sonata
What is one or two?
500
family Haydn worked for
What is the Esterhazy family?
500
Mozart's final, unfinished composition (genre)
What is a Requiem?
500
replacement for minuet (3rd movement in multi-movement cycle)
What is scherzo?
500
improvised solo passage popular in concerti
What is a cadenza?
500
sonata section containing most modulation
What is development?