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Beethoven life falls into how many periods?

Three

What letter did Beethoven write?

Heiligenstadt Testament (1802)

How many symphonies did Beethoven write?

9

How many people gathered for Beethovens funeral?

Thousands, people knew he was a musical genius.

Rondo

The statement and restatement of a principal theme alternating with one or more contrasting themes eg A B A C A 

Rondo forms

ABACA, ABACABA, ABACADA

Franz Schubert

Another Romanticist and a contemporary of Beethoven. The only great Viennese composer who could claim that city as his birth place.

Lieder

plural for “lied”

who wrote Serenade

Franz Schubert

What did Jefferson call his Rotunda

“Temple of Knowledge”

Definition of Requiem

A mass for the dead

The text of an Opera

Libretto

Hector Berlioz

One of the significant composers whose works illustrate the techniques of program music.

What type of composer was Berlioz

French

“Idée fixe”

Berlioz’s term for the recurring musical idea linking several movements of symphonie fantastique and associated in its program with the image of the beloved.

Felix Mendelssohn

The bulk of Mendelssohns great works- the symphonies, the piano and violin concertos, the oratorios- show a deep regard for classic form.

Violin concerto in E minor and Italian symphony

Composed by Mendelssohn

Elijah

music composed by Mendelssohn

Where can the book of Elijah be found?

1st and 2nd Kings (Old Testament)

Richard Wagner

German composer, considered one of the greatest opera composers ever. Used a technique called leitmotif in his operas.

Leitmotif

A compositional technique made famous by Wagner in which musical fragments are associated with specific persons, ideas, events, forming the building blocks for larger works.

Who wrote the Ring of the Nibelung (Ring Cycle)

Richard Wagner

Most famous music in The Ring Cycle

“Ride of the Valkyries”

What did Richard Wagner build in Bayreuth Germany?

Opera house called the Bayreuth Festspielhaus

Wagner’s last Opera in Parsifal

Based on the subject of the Holy Grail

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Considered one of the greatest Italian opera composers ever.

Impression and post impressionism (period)

1860-1900’s

Debussy

A french impressionist composer

Georges Pierre Seurat's style

Seurats style is called “pointallism”

Vincent van Gogh

was a dutch post-impressionist painter who eventually moved to france

Van Gogh painting

The starry Night

Abing

a chinese musician who composed the Moon Reflected on the Second Spring. This piece uses the penatonic scale.

Modern period

1900

cubism

style of painting

Pablo Picasso

Spanish artist (1881 -1973)

what did picasso paint ?

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Picasso Paintings:

Girl before a mirror, Guernica,

Surrealism

A style of art that attempts to potray the subconcious mind

Salvador Dali

Another spanish artist

Salvador Dali painting

The persistence of Memory

Igor Stavinsky

A russian composer