Story Time!
This lied follows a father desperately trying to save his child during a terrifying ride through the night.
What is Erlkönig? (The Elf King)
This composer became known as the "Poet of the Piano."
Who is Frédéric Chopin?
This pianist and composer married Robert Schumann after a long courtship.
Who is Clara Wieck?
He wrote over 600 lieder. Considered the master of this genre.
Who is Schubert?
Schubert set music to this poet's works (Erlkönig and Gretchen am Spinnrade).
Who is Goethe?
This song portrays a young woman obsessively thinking about Faust while sitting at her spinning wheel.
What is Gretchen am Spinnrade?
This composer popularized the solo piano recital and often performed entirely from memory.
Who is Franz Liszt?
This composer became the affair partner to Clara Schumann.
Who is Johannes Brahms?
Schubert and Schumann both believed this artistic element should be just as important as the music.
What is poetry/ words?
Schumann originally pursued this profession before devoting himself to music.
What is law?
This song cycle traces a love story from hopeful romance to heartbreak and reflection.
What is Dichterliebe?
This dazzling virtuoso showpiece is based on a theme by Paganini.
What is La Campanella?
Schubert became known as the master of this Romantic vocal genre.
What is a lied?
Gretchen am Spinnrade comes from this famous German dramatic work.
What is Faust?
At age 21, Chopin moved to this city, where he became a leading Romantic composer.
What is Paris?
This Romantic song was written as a musical love letter dedicated to Clara Wieck.
What is Widmung?
Schubert composed more than this many lieder.
What is 600?
Composed by Franz Schubert in 1814, when he was only 17 years old.
What is Gretchen am Spinnrade?
This Romantic genre is a collection of songs connected by one story or theme.
What is a song cycle?
The continuous galloping rhythm in the piano represents this animal carrying the father and child through the dark forest.
What is a horse?
The piano imitates this object throughout Gretchen am Spinnrade.
What is a spinning wheel?
Liszt invented this one-movement orchestral genre that tells a story or paints a scene.
What is a symphonic poem?
Robert Schumann began piano lessons with this member of Clara Wieck's family before eventually marrying her.
Who is her father?
Before becoming the master of the lied, Franz Schubert studied composition under this famous teacher.
Who is Antonio Salieri?
Born in this Austrian capital, Schubert quickly developed into one of the Romantic era's greatest song composers.
What is Vienna?