This song tells of a boy and his father riding through an enchanted forest haunted by an elvish king.
What is The Erlking
100
This composer wrote almost 700 lieder in his lifetime
Who is Schubert
100
The dates of the Romantic time period
What is 1825-1900
100
He wrote Symphony Fantastique
Who is Berlioz
100
He was known as a bridge composer from the Classical time period to the Romantic time period
Who is Beethoven
200
This opera tells of a Japanese woman waiting for her husband to come back to her from America but is heartbroken when he returns with his American wife.
What is Madame Butterfly
200
This is the language in which a lied would be sung
What is German
200
Instrumental music written in association with a poem, story, or other literary source
What is programmatic music
200
Wrote many ballets, namely Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, & The Nutcracker
Who is Tchaikovsky
200
She married one of her father's students against her father's wishes and later took care of her husband as he became mentally unstable
Who is Clara Schumann
300
Most of the plot line of this piece is inspired by an idée fixe and an artist's obsession with his beloved one... it doesn't end well for him.
What is Symphony Fantastique (Fantastic Symphony)
300
This is the instrument of choice for accompanying a lied
What is the piano
300
Robbed time; the free treatment of meter in a performance
What is rubato
300
He was a virtuoso pianist that had two careers, the first as a concert pianist and the second as a composer of symphonic works
Who is Liszt
300
Number of operas in Wagner's Ring Cycle
What is 4
400
This opera's plot line is about a hunchback jester trying to exact revenge on the man who seduced his daughter
What is Rigoletto
400
Many lieder were inspired by the poetry of this literary figure
Who is Goethe
400
Total artwork
What is gesamtkunstwerk
400
He wrote Madame Butterfly
Who is Puccini
400
The children's song featured in Mahler's 3rd movement of his 1st Sympony
What is Frère Jacques
500
This Mussorgsky piece's purpose is to take the listener through an art tour at a museum.
What is Pictures at and Exhibition
500
Composers intended lieder to be performed in this this type of setting
Where is and intimate setting/a living room
500
A style of writing vocal music that brings out the beauty of the singing voice
What is bel canto
500
He wrote under the pen names Eusebius & Florestan
Who is Robert Schumann
500
The Russian 5/Mighty 5
Who are Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Balakirev, Musorgsky, & Cui