The Sound of Music
They are both composers and music critics.
Who are Schumann and Berlioz?
Intimate musical gatherings organized by Schubert’s friends to celebrate his music.
What are Schubertiades?
She is a composer, virtuoso pianist and music writer instrumental to the creation of the standard repertoire.
Who is Clara Wieck/Schumann?
“People exchange anecdotes about his life, wait for him in the street, try to catch a word or two from him, order his portrait, buy his handwriting - in short, he comes the vogue.”
What is Lisztomania?
Much older musical material heard in the recapitulation (in the lower brass) of “Witches Sabbath” from Berlioz’s Symphony Fantastique.
What is the Dies Irae?
This city in Spain is operatically famous for its barber.
What is Seville?
Heroic.
What is Beethoven's middle period?
The musical motif that represents the hero’s ‘beloved’ in Symphony Fantastique.
What is idée fixe?
Goethe’s preferred text-setting.
What is strophic?
A synonym for arrangement, most often of works originally composed for other instruments and voices.
What is a transcription?
The opposite literary character to Schumann’s kinder, more sensitive and inward Eusebius.
Who is Florestan?
Cantabile and cabaletta are sections that you might expect to find in an aria of this style.
What is the Bel Canto?
What is "Grandes Etudes de Paganini" by Liszt?
Wrote the poem/text featured in Symphony No. 9’s choral finale.
Who is Friedrich Schiller?
It is the term for a kind of piano composition that uses themes from other compositions. Liszt was famous for his concerts that included these.
What is an arrangement?
A social change in the 19th century whereby amateur musicians and the public audience for music grew due to greater access to sheet music, instruments and private instruction.
What is the democratization of taste?
A sung narrative poem that often includes dramatic dialogue between humans and supernatural beings.
What is a ballad?
His poetry was set by Schubert in some of his most famous lieder.
Who is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
Liszt heard Paganini play in this city, where Rossini was enjoying an early retirement.
What is Paris?
Prince Karl Lichnowsky and Princess Christiane.
Who are Beethoven's patrons?
A romantic trend reflective of nature where a piece of music grows out of a single idea.
What is organicism?