Music 2

Years for Romantic Period

1820 - 1900

The type of instrumental music that is associated with a story, poem, idea or scene (19th C is considered the "Great Age" of this type of music.)

Program music

The term that describes the cultural movement in which composers deliberately gave their music a distinctive cultural identity by including elements like folk songs, dances, legends, and other material in their composition to associate it with the compose

Nationalism

Which handsome Hungarian composer was a piano virtuoso who aimed to become the Paganini of the piano and achieved that extraordinary feat?

Franz Liszt

Which Polish composer, who composed almost exclusively for the piano, had a relationship with an eccentric writer who published under the male pseudonym George Sand?

Frederic Chopin

Which German composer rekindled the public's interest in J.S. Bach after he conducted St. Matthew's Passion?

Felix Mendelssohn

Which composer wrote a Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration, signaling the recognition of orchestration as an art in itself?

Hector Berlioz

The type of composition written for solo voice and piano that intimately fuses poetry and music (They are often grouped in a set or cycle)

Art song

Which composer founded and edited the "New Journal of Music" and married Clara Weick who was also an accomplished pianist and composer?

Robert Schumann

Which German composer, who was a master orchestrator and wrote monumental operas, was closely allied with German nationalism?

Richard Wagner

Which Russian composer ,who hid his homosexuality for years, later acquired a patron, Nadezhda von Meck, so he could compose exclusively without having to worry about his finances?

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

What is leid the German word for?

Song

How is lied pluralized?

Lieder