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