Composers with one "eye"
He was the most important Italian composer of the 2nd half of the 19th century.
Who was Verdi?
The ruler of France who modernized Paris between 1853 and 1870.
Who was Napoleon III?
A new type of orchestral program music that was often based on existing works of literature.
What is a tone poem?
The wife of Robert Schumann was also a composer.
Who was Clara Schumann?
There are this many operas in the "Ring Cycle".
What is Four?
This person wrote an overture and incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Who was Felix Mendelssohn?
Chopin moved to Paris following his inability to return to this, his home country.
What is Poland?
This system of rods and keypads for woodwind instruments was invented by this man.
Who was Boehm?
What is "Das Jahr"?
What is a Leitmotiv?
This composer wrote a huge amount of piano music, and almost nothing else.
Who was Chopin?
This instrument is fingered only with the left hand, and is not very nationalistic.
What is the "French" horn?
This major innovation was applied to most brass instruments in the early 19th century.
What are valves?
This close family friend of the Schumanns also wrote lots of music.
Who was Johannes Brahms?
The theater that Wagner designed for the performance of his operas.
What is the Bayreuth Festspielhaus?
This composer wrote a programmatic symphony, partially based on an opium dream.
Who was Hector Berlioz?
This recurring motive is used by Berlioz in his Symphonie Fantastique.
What is the idee fixe?
This instrument was invented by a composer to fill the gap between the tuba and the horn.
What is the Wagner Tuba?
He ended up being Wagner's Father-in-law.
Who was Franz Liszt?
This term was invented by Wagner to mean an "all encompassing theatrical experience."
What is Gesamtkunstwerk?
This composer composed the opera Tristan & Isolde.
Who was Richard Wagner?
This is the French name of a major composition award that Berlioz won, connected to the capital of Italy.
What is the Prix de Rome?
The composer commonly credited with inventing the tone poem.
Who was Franz Liszt?
Hector Berlioz fell in love with her at first sight.
Who was Harriet Smithson?
Wagner was banned from this country for 12 years of his life.
What is Germany?