Duplicate of Fine Arts Academic Team--Music Composers

He is familiarly known as the "father of the symphony."

Rossini's Semiramide is the only _____opera still performed with any frequency.

He was an experimenter in choral and orchestral writing; including a requiem, oratorio & others

Cherubini had 18 works to his credit by the age of 18.

Who had their first music lesson at the age of six, with their father?

The "Viennese Classics" are Mozart, Beethoven and ______.

He used a choir of angels, off stage, in his oratorio "L'Efance de Christ."

___established a reputation as a virtuoso pianist who was especially adept at improvisation.

Cherubini was active in Spain.

He expanded the French orchestra to include horns and clarinets.

He was a versatile and prolific composer--particularly of instrumental music.

The goal of the counter-Enlightenment was to give a philosophy any rational person would accept

His operas did not show the same promise as his instrumental works.

According to republicans, French armies intimidated enemies by singing his Le chant du depart.

His life was filled with conflict, especially with other Enlightenment thinkers.

___revealed the power of music to convey a philosophy of life without the aid of a spoken text.

___'s greatest achievement was to raise INSTRUMENTAL music to the highest plane of art.

Gluck and ______ both had strong influences on Berlioz.

_____wrote his most sublime and profound works at the end of his life.

Who is most associated with the term "reform opera?"

Who wrote an autobiography titled Confessions?

L'ingenu, Zulime, Adelaide du Guesclin, & Alzire, ou Les Americains can all be attributed to:

What's the name of Cherubini's play, that is about a protagonist falling victim to her emotions

La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is attributed to _________.

Sturm und Drang is used to describe symphonies HE wrote during the late 1760s and early 1770s.

He criticized the fact that so many musicians compose who have never learnt how to sing.

L'Orande a la liberte is attributed to who?

___worked on more than one composition at a time and that he was rarely in a hurry to finish.

He wrote that he "sought to confine music to its true function of serving poetry..."

During the Revolution, he became widely known as a composer of patriotic songs and choruses.

The name of Cherubini's first opera is:

Reform opera embodied in many operas by Gluck, involved all of the following EXCEPT:

The phrase which best describes Gluck's operatic art is:

Who wrote La chasse?

He argues the progression of the sciences and arts has caused the corruption of virtue/morality

Beethoven repeatedly called____the greatest living composer.

There is dispute if his thought is considered "Enlightenment" or "counter-enlightenment."

Of the names listed below, who developed a lifelong fascination with opera?

The work Ariodant is attributed to_____________.

The court performers that he directed seem to have regarded him as a father-figure.

He excelled in every musical genre.

Which Mozart opera portrays ritual elements of freemasonry?

Cherubini completed ______ a mock "rescue opera" in a Chinese setting.

He supported Gluck in his rivalry with Niccolo Piccini.

Which composer met French Queen, Marie Antoinette?

He inspired more operas than any other writer, with the single exception of Shakespeare.

____is probably the most admired composer in the history of Western music.

Who composed Fidelio, his only opera?

Following his death, Cherubini said he was "rather the Michelangelo than the Raphael of music."

___is the predominant musical figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras.

Who was a member of the army, and imprisoned until the fall of Robespierre?

__was the first musician to receive a salary with n_o duties other than to compose how he felt.

After ___it was no longer possible to speak of music merely as the "art of pleasing sounds."

Who composed 18 romances to Florian's novel Estelle?

He usually juxtaposes or contrasts stylistic dualities rather than synthesize them.

He created his own atmosphere in a work, by playing with the instruments of the orchestra.

Who is responsible for Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste?

La princesse de Navarre (1744) and Le temple de la gloire (1745) were created by ______.

Who fell into a crippling depression?

He is most known for his political philosophy, which highly influenced the French Revolution.

Who was made director of the Paris Conservatoire?

The Querrelle des bouffos, war of the buffoons, resulted from:

In the 20th century, _______ was understood primarily as an "absolute" musician.

Which of the following composers was deaf?

Many of ______'s most famous works were banned.

He argued that the sciences fail to contribute anything positive to morality.

Who once claimed, "I am not abusing science...I am defending virtue before virtuous men."

Gluck is ultimately famous for his contributions ballet.

Who wrote "Candide" & "Letters Concerning the English Nation"?

Who was a member of the band of the Garde Nationale led by Bernard Sarrette?

___made striking progress in fusing the traditions of Gluck and Paisiello.

He spent 4 years studying composition with the Italian organist and composer Sammartini.

_____made no claim to musical expertise and expressed little interest in orchestral music.

Which is NOT a work of Cherubini's?

He was seen to play a central role in the forging of a new operatic style.

He was little known outside of France. His own works were overshadowed by more famous composers

He believed that music gains in expressiveness when it is properly balanced with poetry.

He excelled in devising extreme situations that forced his protagonists to make hard choices.

He became the head of much that characterized the work of the Romantics who followed him.

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle is known for creating several famous works.

He strongly influenced Berlioz.

What is Lodoiska?

He founded his own orchestra and gave the FIRST performance of a Haydn symphony.

He believed that the primary purpose of a composition was to move the listener.

He developed his own system of musical notation. It was numbered and compatible with typography

He is known for his elegant synthesis of the French and Italian operatic traditions.

Beethoven's success and _______'s failing health inadvertently ended ________'s career.

Totally involved from an early age in the world of Italian music,___profited from moving abroad

His opera Le Devin du Village was a great success. He gave up composing music after this opera

_____was imprisoned in the Bastille for nearly a year.

His compromise between the demands of words & music was one of the most satisfying & successful

He died in poverty in Choisy-le-Roi.

Iphigenie en Aulide started a debate over French serious opera vs. his new Italian style.

Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony, Ninth Symphony and Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" are all attributed to ___

Cherubini's opera Lodoiska is an example of:

Official recognition came in 1795 when he became a founder-member of the Institut de France.

A "rescue opera" is a French opera in which a leading character is delivered by other(s) danger

Who developed an interest in botany, assembled a herbarium and took to painting cards?

Sturm und Drang means "Storm and Stress."

A Typical Voltairian propaganda piece about the overthrow of an evil theocracy in ancient Egypt

His art is based on the traditional principle of variety within unity.

All of Voltaire's following creations remain underperformed EXCEPT:

He relied on his harmonic imagination and sense of sound texture.

His symphonies and chamber works shaped the orchestral forms of the Classical period in France

Early in his career, he was the undisputed master of serious opera with spoken dialogue.

His chamber works include both trio sonatas (Baroque form) and string quartets (Classical form)

____was concerned with matters of decor and spectacle, within the colorful pageantry of Olympie

He was much more influential as a philosopher and writer.

Which composer received commissions from Napoleon?

Beethoven's opera Fidelio is an example of:

Which composer was domestically abused by his father?

Who was a friend of Handel's?

He wrote several works in honor of the French revolution.

By the 1780s he had become the most celebrated composer of his time.

He got into a literary squabble with Niccolo Piccinni.

After Mozart's death, he willingly accepted the role of greatest living composer.

He wrote Essais en vers et en prose (Essays in Verse and Prose, 1797).

He was the most important FRENCH symphonist of the Empire.

He formed a common-law relationship with Mari-Francoise Tourette, sister of Cherubini's wife.

He is primarily remembered as a reformer and revolutionary.

_____had a brief career as a spy for the French government.

____came to be regarded as the dominant musical figure of the 19th century.

He founded the Concert des Amateurs, in 1769.

He believed that human beings are good by nature, but were corrupted by events in civil society

Francois-Joseph Gossec only produced chamber music and choral works.

The Paris symphonies are a group of six symphonies written by ___________________.

Earnestness, depth of feeling, and referential tendencies are very important to ________'s art.

He powerfully stimulated the revival of instrumental music.

The 18th century ideal of music would have included all of the following EXCEPT:

His character was marked by a duality between earnestness and humor.

In 1770, he copied music for a living in France.

He died unmarried and without descendants.

Who had a substantial indirect contribution to the development of opera?

He had tremendous variety and innovation in his operas because he put drama first.

All of his ballets contain pieces by other composers.

Of the following, who is considered to be the least significant?

___invented orchestral motifs with incisive rhythmic accentuation.

Who wrote Emile andThe Social Contract (both were controversial for claims made about religion)

___is the least inclined to repeat himself.

How many librettos is Voltaire responsible for creating?

Rouget de Lisle's La Marseille, was first known as Chant de Guerre de l'armee du Rhin.