Romantic Era Review

This composer is credited with creating the German lied (German art song).

He became the professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire in 1896, and remained there for twenty-four years.

After studying at the Milan Conservatory in Italy, he gained public attention with his first opera, Manon Lescaut.

His signature move in composing music was that he linked chords together using common tones.

This genre of music has only one movement with different themes and a structure where one episode flows into the next.

One of the most successful Italian composers of the Era; he used realism in his operas to make them relatable to people.

He was born in Lucca, Italy, where his very musical family had lived since the 1730's.

Composers in the Romantic Era were more concerned with making audiences feel their emotions, rather than doing what?

This is the name of the first note in the scale of a key signature.

The symphony orchestra went under major expansion due to these things:

He was the founder of the National Society for French Music.

His masterpiece in the opera buffa genre was Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville).

What was the goal of all the arts/artists in the Romantic Era?

He toured the United States in 1891, where he was invited to perform the opening of ceremonies of Carnegie Hall in NYC.

The Romantic composers based their music on real-life things/events in order to __________.

This is the name of a note that fits into many different chords and gives the song a more fluid sound.

He was very troubled by his growing confirmation of his homosexuality and attempted suicide more than once.

Of all the operas that he composed, his most famous one was called Madama Butterfly.

He is recognized for bridging together the compositions of the Classical and Romantic eras.

The type of composer who loved their country and created musical ways to tell the stories of their homelands.