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Musical Appreciation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Red Priest | Vivaldi |
| Four Seasons | Vivaldi |
| 20 Children | Bach |
| Best organist of his day. | Bach |
| Musical Family | Bach |
| 30 minutes of church music composed weekly. | Bach |
| Wrote Toccata in D minor | Bach |
| Loved in england | Handel |
| Buried in Westminster alley | Handel |
| Wrote Hallelujah Chorus, king stood and created the tradition for standing during its playing. | Handel |
| Comic Opera | Pergolesi |
| Harpsichord specialist | Scarlatti |
| Boy choir expulsion due to voice change | Haydn |
| Worked for the Esterházy family | Haydn |
| Each performer he directed blew out a candle and stopped playing till all that was left was this person and his first violinist. | Haydn |
| Most gifted musician of all time. | Mozart |
| Wrote his own Requiem for a masked man to get money. | Mozart |
| Wife sold his music after his death to get life together. | Mozart |
| Alcoholic, in debt, and loved the "punch" | Mozart |
| Wrote Turkish March | Mozart |
| Wrote autobiographic journals about his life. | Beethoven |
| Slowly became stone deaf through his life | Beethoven |
| Father alcoholic and abusive | Beethoven |
| Fell in love with his brothers wife and had a child with her. | Beethoven |
| Wrote the Fifth Symphony and Moonlight Sonata | Beethoven |
| Schubertians were his followeres | Schubert |
| Pallbearer for Beethoven | Schubert |
| Wrote Ava Maria | Schubert |
| Poet of the piano | Chopin |
| Polish and French parents | Chopin |
| Brought back Bach's St. Matthews Passion | Mendelssohn |
| Least hardship or torment | Mendelssohn |
| Wrote Wedding March | Mendelssohn |
| Wedding March is what? | Recessional |
| Hurt his ring finger trying to exercise it | Schumann |
| Wrote Journals and Periodicals, after being a pianist | Schumann |
| Married Clara Wieck | Schumann |
| Mentally ill, tried to commit suicide and ended up in an asylum. | Schumann |
| Wrote Carnaval | Schumann |
| Performed without sheet music | Clara Wieck |
| Schuman is this persons mentor | Brahms |
| In love with his mentors wife, Clara Wieck. | Brahms |
| Writes Lullaby | Brahms |
| Falls in love with a character portrayed by an actress and marries her for it. | Berlioz |
| Raised in the Esterházy palace | Liszt |
| Studied the great artist Paganini | Liszt |
| Greatest Pianist of all time | Liszt |
| Started the tradition of performing sideways | Liszt |
| Married Liszts daughter | Wagner |
| Participated in art, politics, and life. | Wagner |
| Socially acted like a very young child with his personality. | Wagner |
| Wrote the Bridal Chorus | Wagner |
| Bridal Chorus is what? | Processional |
| Performed at Carnegie Hall | Tchaikovsky |
| Created the Nut Cracker Ballet suite | Tchaikovsky |
| Covered his homosexuality by marrying a woman, unhappily. Attempted suicide. | Tchaikovsky |
| Financially supported by Frau Von Meck. | Tchaikovsky |
| Wrote songs about paintings | Mussorgsky |
| From Bohemia, which is modern Czech Slovakia. | Dvorak |
| Brought back African and Indian Music. | Dvorak |
| Only one step ahead of his students whom he taught composition to | Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Became tired of playing a song that everyone like him performing. | Rachmaninoff |
| The only impressionism artist covered. | Debussy |
| Influenced by things around him | Vaugh-William |
| Born in Vienna. Created the Twelve Tone System. | Schoenberg |
| Wrote Firebird and Rite of Spring. | Stravinsky |
| A riot was started at the performance of one of this composers works. Vindicated a year later. | Stravinsky |
| "No one ever talked to me about music, I discovered it on my own." | Copland |
| Decided to begin composing at the age of fifteen. | Copland |
| Born in the USA and played all types of music. | Copland |
| The March King. | Sousa |
| Was the Marine Band Director | Sousa |
| Wrote Stars and Stripes forever | Sousa |
| Money from the song Stars and Stripes forever is permanently locked in to give money to what organization? | The Boy Scouts of America |
| Famous in the United States. | Berlin |
| What song withstood the longest time at #1 on the charts? | White Christmas |
| What is Nationalism? | Pride in your country. |
| What time period encompasses the Baroque era? | 1600-1750 |
| What time period encompasses the Classical era? | 1725-1800 |
| What time period encompasses the Romantic era? | 1825-1900 |
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