Beethoven
The name commonly given to Beethoven's second style period
What is Heroic?
The name of the style of singing pioneered by Rossini and Bellini
What is bel canto?
the name used to describe German art songs for solo voice and piano
What is lied?
composer who was a renowned advocate of Absolute Music
Who is Brahms?
The name of the male protagonist in the Ring Cycle
Who is Sigfried?
The name of the document Beethoven wrote after realizing he was going to go permanently deaf
What is the Heiligenstadt Testament?
style of musical drama that is the root of German Opera
What is singspiel?
Composer considered to be the first great composer of German Lieder
Who is Schubert?
Composer who was in the first class of students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory
Who is Tchaikovsky?
The name of the male protagonist in Swan Lake
Who is Sigfried?
The name of Beethoven's only Opera
What is Fidelio?
the name of an musical drama by Weber that involves magic bullets and a Faustian bargain
What is die Freischütz?
The number of characters represented in Erlkönig
What is five?
The first american composer to be performed in Europe who was not trained in Europe
Who is Amy Beach?
The name of the recurring theme found in Symphonie Fantastique
What is idee fixe?
The form of the first section of the second movement of Symphony no. 9
Who is Sonata form?
Term coined by Wagner that means Total Art Work
What is a gesamtkunstwerk?
A child prodigy who was renowned for playing from memory
Who is Clara Wieck Schumann?
The total number of Symphonies written by Johannes Brahms
What is four?
He wrote the poem upon which Erlkönig was based
Who is Goethe?
The form of the first movement of the String Quartet in C# Minor
What is a fugue?
term that refers to the assigning of short melodic or harmonic fragments to characters, moods, objects, etc
What is letimotif?
The name of the collection of Schumann Lied that means "A Poet's Love"
What is Dichterliebe?
The name of the journal that was the centerpiece in the war of the Romantics
What is Neue Zeitschrift für Musik?
the name of the pitch collection used by Rimsky Korsakov that consists of an alternating series of half steps and whole steps
What is the octatonic collection?