AL Music Practice

Question 1

This other French composer present at Carmen's premiere wrote Meditation de Thais, Manon and Werther

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Jules Massenet

Question 2

This Austrian Classical composer wrote the Surprise Symphony, which had a sudden fortissimo chord in its 2nd movement

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Joseph Haydn

Question 3

Among the most famous works of this Belgian composer were the Six Sonatas for solo violin

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Eugene Ysaye

Question 4

This German Baroque composer was famous for his sonatas and partitas for solo violin and his Mass in B Minor

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Question 5

This musical period increased harmony and polyphony in music, focused on choral music and also means revival

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Renaissance

Question 6

This musical period came after Classical and was characterized by overwhelming intensity and expression

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Romantic

Question 7

This Italian Baroque composer was most famous for his series of violin concertos called Four Seasons

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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

Question 8

This name was the title of the play, and later movie, based on Mozart. It was actually not part of his real name

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Amadeus

Question 9

Schumann's music was described as this word, meaning that it tells a story through music

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programmatic

Question 10

Ysaye declined the music director post for this orchestra in 1898 because of his busy solo performance schedule

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New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Question 11

Elgar wrote a concerto for this other string instrument played by Yo-Yo Ma

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cello

Question 12

This Italian violinist and composer was well known for his 24 Caprices for Solo Violin and La Campanella

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Niccolo Paganin

Question 13

This instrument became more prominent in the Renaissance and was played by keyboard that triggers plucking of strings

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harpsichord

Question 14

Glass founded this music group in 1968 with which he still performs with on the keyboards

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Philip Glass Ensemble

Question 15

Elgar often composed for this string instrument played by soloist Itzhak Perlman

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violin

Question 16

This Classical period composer composed the famous pieces Requiem: Lacrimosa and Symphony No. 41 Jupiter

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Mozart

Question 17

This musical period was most known by its compulsion for structural clarity in music and include Beethoven and Mozart

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Classical

Question 18

Habanera is the entrance aria of the title character of this opera

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Carmen

Question 19

Paganini also played this string instrument with 4 strings and is slightly bigger than the violin

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viola

Question 20

This American composer known for minimalism composed a portrait opera trilogy named Einstein on the Beach

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Philip Glass

Question 21

This English composer is best known for his Enigma variations and Pomp and Circumstance marches

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Edward Elgar

Question 22

Ysaye wrote his Sonata no. 4 in the style of this composer who wrote Liebesleid and Schon Rosmarin

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Fritz Kreisler

Question 23

This Italian composer was considered a crucial transitional figure from Renaissance to Baroque and wrote L'Orfeo

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Claudio Monteverdi

Question 24

This french composer wrote Carmen and the L'Arlésienne suite

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George Bizet

Question 25

This Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer arranged Paganini's La Campanella for piano

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Franz Liszt

Question 26

This composer was the rival of Mozart and was written to have poisoned Mozart in a play by Peter Shaffer

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Salieri

Question 27

This other Romantic era composer became a close friend of the Schumanns, The Hungarian Dances one of his famous works

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Johannes Brahms

Question 28

Glass wrote 12 of these extended musical compositions and Antonín Dvořák wrote one subtitled From The New World

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symphony

Question 29

This Romantic era composer was famous for his works Carnaval, Kreisleriana, and Études Symphoniques

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Robert Schumann

Question 30

This other German-born Baroque composer was most famous for his oratorio Messiah which contains the Hallelujah chorus

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George Frideric Handel

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AL Music Practice

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