20th Century Piano Literature

This Debussy prelude is reminiscent of autumn

Born near St. Petersburg, Russia

Debussy died of:

He never was successful at winning the Prix de Rome

He believed every piece should only have one "culminating point"

Impressionism can be defined as:

These composers wrote 24 preludes except

A movement in art closely following Impressionism

What event had a profound effect on Debussy's music?

He mentioned Balakirev's Islamey as a model of virtuosity for his own solo piano work

A famous pop psychiatrist in the early 1900's that helped Rachmaninoff recover from depression

"Estampes" means

Ravel's "Morning Song of the Jester" is from

Harmonic boundaries were pushed to their limits in Debussy's

Debussy employed this mode the least in his music

A famous violinist that played with Rachmaninoff

Glazunov unsuccessfully conducted his first symphony

True or False: Most endings in Debussy pieces 'fade away'

The revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music.

How old was Debussy when he first began to write for solo piano?

This composer was primarily a church organist his entire life

Style of music in which the artist or writer seeks to express subjective emotional experience

His father was a gambler

His most famous sonata is called the "Night Wind", Op. 25, no. 2

Oiseaux tristes is described by the composer as:

T or F: There is virtually always a tonal center in Debussy's music.

T or F: The Revised version (1931) of Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2 (1913) is played most often

Debussy's Etudes were dedicated to

Slow Cuban dance characterized by dotted rhythms

How does Debussy link tonal centers in his music?

Debussy was considered an impressionist for his music's:

Ravel's Jeux d'eau musically depicts:

Who would most likely have included "leitmotifs" in his compositions?

What are some onomatopoetic sounds typically found in Rachmaninoff's music?

Most of Debussy's pieces can be thought of structurally as

He wrote nine piano sonatas

"Reflets dans l'eau" is from

He briefly lived in Hollywood for a while

David Dubal: "his music is often dense in number of notes per measure"

The "War Sonatas" of Prokofiev were comprised of the

Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 has similarities to which piece?

The Alhambra is located in:

The Alhambra is referenced in this Debussy prelude

Who said "Music is silence between the notes"?

Rachmaninoff's favorite chopin piece was:

He wrote ten piano sonatas

Ravel's Le Tombeau is an example of:

Ravel's Alborada del Gracioso contains everything except

Rachmaninoff's Moments Musicaux comes from works of the same title by: