Duplicate of Fine Arts Academic Team--Music Composers

Who composed 18 romances to Florian's novel Estelle?

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

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

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

Who wrote La chasse?

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

Who was a friend of Handel's?

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

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

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

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

Who fell into a crippling depression?

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

Who composed Fidelio, his only opera?

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

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

Which Mozart opera portrays ritual elements of freemasonry?

He was the most important FRENCH symphonist of the Empire.

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

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

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

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

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

Which composer met French Queen, Marie Antoinette?

Cherubini's opera Lodoiska is an example of:

He supported Gluck in his rivalry with Niccolo Piccini.

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

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

___is the least inclined to repeat himself.

Gluck is ultimately famous for his contributions ballet.

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

_____was imprisoned in the Bastille for nearly a year.

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

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

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

Gluck and ______ both had strong influences on Berlioz.

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

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

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

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

Beethoven's opera Fidelio is an example of:

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

He excelled in every musical genre.

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

What is Lodoiska?

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

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

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

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

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

He got into a literary squabble with Niccolo Piccinni.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which of the following composers was deaf?

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

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

Which is NOT a work of Cherubini's?

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

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

All of his ballets contain pieces by other composers.

L'Orande a la liberte is attributed to who?

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

He wrote several works in honor of the French revolution.

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

He expanded the French orchestra to include horns and clarinets.

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

Which composer received commissions from Napoleon?

He died in poverty in Choisy-le-Roi.

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

He founded the Concert des Amateurs, in 1769.

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

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

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

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

Who is responsible for Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He powerfully stimulated the revival of instrumental music.

He is primarily remembered as a reformer and revolutionary.

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

Cherubini was active in Spain.

___invented orchestral motifs with incisive rhythmic accentuation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beethoven repeatedly called____the greatest living composer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who was made director of the Paris Conservatoire?

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

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

The name of Cherubini's first opera is:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He strongly influenced Berlioz.

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

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

Which composer was domestically abused by his father?

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

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

Who wrote an autobiography titled Confessions?

The work Ariodant is attributed to_____________.

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

How many librettos is Voltaire responsible for creating?

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

All of Voltaire's following creations remain underperformed EXCEPT:

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

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

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

Sturm und Drang means "Storm and Stress."

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

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

Many of ______'s most famous works were banned.

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

He was much more influential as a philosopher and writer.

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

He died unmarried and without descendants.

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