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Clementi
100
The year the fortepiano was invented.
What is 1709?
100
His sons helped transition from the Baroque to the Classical Era.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
100
Whereas music of the Baroque era was elaborate, this era was simple, balanced, and elegant.
What is the Classical Era?
100
His famous Sonata in C Major, K. 545, uses Alberti bass accompaniment.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
100
This was Muzio Clementi's birthplace.
What is Rome, Italy?
200
The person who invented the fortepiano.
Who is Christofori?
200
He was a creative composer whose music was delicate with changes in dynamics.
Who is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach?
200
There were fewer of these in music of the Classical Era than in the Baroque Era.
What are ornaments?
200
Clementi wrote this group of etudes to teach students piano technique.
What is Gradus ad Parnassum?
200
This was Clementi's first job at age nine.
What is church organist?
300
What the fortepiano could do that previous keyboard instruments were unable to do.
What is crescendos and diminuendos (dynamics)?
300
He was Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son.
Who is Johann Christian Bach?
300
Instead of the heavy texture of the Baroque Era, the Classical Era often has a melody with this kind of accompaniment.
What is chordal?
300
His Concerto in a minor for keyboard and orchestra demonstrated the difference in style between the music of his era and that of his father's.
Who is Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach?
300
Clementi moved here to work and study at 14.
What is England?
400
Lengthening the tubing and adding more keys during the mid-1700's made this a more versatile instrument.
What is the flute?
400
He is known as the "Father of the Symphony."
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
400
The Classical Era is often characterized by this type of phrase structure.
What is symmetrical?
400
Like his brother's work, his Piano Concerto, Op. 13, No. 4, shows the change in style from the Baroque to the Classical Era.
Who is Johann Christian Bach?
400
Among other royalty, Clementi performed for this French queen.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
500
Alterations to the mouthpiece during the early Classical era made this hunting instrument suitable for the orchestra.
What is the horn (french horn)?
500
He composed his first piece of music at the age of five.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
500
The elements of composition that began being notated in the Classical Era.
What are phrasing, articulation, and dynamics?
500
Franz Joseph Haydn wrote this piece to wake up the sleeping audience members that annoyed him so!
What is the Surprise Symphony?
500
The instrument Clementi not only wrote for, but also sold.
What is the fortepiano?