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Question 1

What makes Beethoven a heroic figure?

Accepted Answer

a sense of struggle and triumph portrayed through his music, his perserverance in the face of deafness

Question 2

How did Beethoven show his respect for, and also his own individuality in the sonatas dedicated to Haydn?

Accepted Answer

addition of a fourth movement: replaced the minuet with a dynamic scherzo, created themes from brief motives he then developed extensively

Question 3

How did Beethoven make a living in Vienna?

Accepted Answer

he established himself as a pianist and composer

Question 4

What did Mozart prophesy about Beethoven?

Accepted Answer

a bright future

Question 5

What are two reasons that Beethoven's symphonic output is smaller than that of Haydn or Mozart?

Accepted Answer

Beethoven's symphonies are longer and grander, Beethoven composed with great deliberation, only after times of struggle

Question 6

Who did Beethoven take lessons with?

Accepted Answer

Haydn

Question 7

How many style periods and what years do scholars divide Beethoven's life into?

Accepted Answer

3 periods: to 1802, 1816, and 1827

Question 8

Who were the three aristocrats who set up annuity for Beethoven so he would stay in Vienna?

Accepted Answer

Prince Kinsky, Archduke Rudolph, Lobkowitz

Question 9

What brought on a personal crisis for Beethoven in 1802 and what did he do about it?

Accepted Answer

his gradual loss of hearing, which caused him to contemplate suicide

Question 10

What about Beethoven appealed to the middle class and served as a model for generations of later composers?

Accepted Answer

his individualism and self-expression

Question 11

What are the three character types and how does Mozart help the audience distinguish their social class?

Accepted Answer

Leporello and his peers, Donna Anna and other nobles, Don Giovanni

Question 12

What does it mean for a piece of music to be "classic?"

Accepted Answer

part of the core group of works cultured people were expected to know

Question 13

How do scholars describe each of the periods of Beethoven's life?

Accepted Answer

3rd: where the music became more reflective and introspective, 1st: assimilated the music of his time and found his voice as a composer, 2nd: in which his rugged individualism asserted itself

Question 14

What does the term "Classical" refer to?

Accepted Answer

any work of the late 18th century

Question 15

What two styles of opera does Mozart merge in Don Giovanni and how is this achieved?

Accepted Answer

opera buffa, opera seria; characters, situations, and style into comic opera

Question 16

Who was Lorenzo Da Ponte?

Accepted Answer

poet for the imperial court theater, eventually became a professor of Italian in New York, libretist poet

Question 17

What did Mozart do for Singspiel?

Accepted Answer

brought it into a realm of great art without altering established features

Question 18

How does Mozart incorporate some of Gluck's opera reforms in the overture to Don Giovanni?

Accepted Answer

uses the overture to set the dramatic tone of the opera (tragedy and farce)

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