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Romatic-Era Composer
YGK These Romatic-Era Composers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Russian Romantic composer of the iconic ballets The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Sleeping Beauty | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| The unnumbered Tchaikovsky symphony based on a poem by Lord Byron | Manfred Symphony |
| The leader of "The Mighty Five" whose correspondence led Tchaikovsky to write his Romeo and Juliet overture-fantasy | Mily Balakirev |
| The Tchaikovsky work depicting the 1812 defense of Russia that famously calls for real cannons in the score | 1812 Overture |
| The two national anthems quoted in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture | “God Save the Tsar” and “La Marseillaise” |
| The nickname of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, premiered shortly before his death | Pathétique |
| The Czech composer who served as director of New York’s National Conservatory of Music in the 1890s | Antonín Dvořák |
| The nickname of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, written during his time in America | From the New World |
| The instrument that plays the iconic solo at the beginning of the "New World" Symphony's Largo movement | English horn |
| The popular song adapted from the English horn theme in Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony | “Goin’ Home” |
| The Dvořák chamber work (No. 12) composed during his stay in the United States | “American” String Quartet |
| The native region of Dvořák whose folk styles, like the dumka and furiant, inspired his Slavonic Dances | Bohemia |
| The early Romantic composer from Vienna who wrote over 600 German art songs (lieder) | Franz Schubert |
| Schubert's Op. 1 lied about a supernatural being | Die Erlkönig |
| The two famous song cycles composed by Franz Schubert | Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise |
| The namesake of Schubert's "Trout" Quintet | Die Forelle (The Trout) |
| The nickname for Schubert's Symphony No. 8, which only has two completed movements | Unfinished |
| The nickname for Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C major | Great C Major |
| The French composer of the programmatic Symphonie fantastique | Hector Berlioz |
| The actress who inspired Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique | Harriet Smithson |
| The recurring melody used by Berlioz to represent his beloved | Idée fixe |
| The Berlioz work for solo viola and orchestra inspired by a Lord Byron poem | Harold in Italy |
| The virtuoso who commissioned but never performed Berlioz’s Harold in Italy | Niccolò Paganini |
| The massive Berlioz opera based on Virgil's Aeneid | Les Troyens |
| The German prodigy who completed his first symphony at age 15 | Felix Mendelssohn |
| Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 and Symphony No. 3, named for the countries that inspired them | Italian and Scottish |
| The cave in Scotland that inspired a Mendelssohn overture | Fingal’s Cave (or Hebrides Overture) |
| The Mendelssohn work featuring the famous "Wedding March" | A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| Mendelssohn’s eight books of solo piano pieces | Songs Without Words |
| The music critic and editor of Neue Zeitschrift für Musik who promoted Chopin and Brahms | Robert Schumann |
| The Schumann piano work that features a musical cryptogram | Carnaval |
| The nicknames for Robert Schumann's First and Third symphonies | Spring and Rhenish |
| The virtuoso pianist who married Robert Schumann against her father's wishes | Clara Wieck |
| The Hungarian virtuoso pianist who caused a fan frenzy known as “Lisztomania” | Franz Liszt |
| The orchestral genre Franz Liszt is credited with inventing | Symphonic poem (or Tone poem) |
| Liszt's notoriously difficult set of piano studies | Transcendental Études |
| The Italian opera composer of Aida and Rigoletto | Giuseppe Verdi |
| The Shakespearean play that served as the basis for Verdi’s only successful comedy | Falstaff |
| The most influential 19th-century German opera composer, known for the Ring Cycle | Richard Wagner |
| The four operas that comprise Wagner’s Ring Cycle | Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung |
| The iconic dissonance that opens Wagner's Tristan and Isolde | Tristan chord |
| The annual German festival dedicated exclusively to Wagner’s works | Bayreuth Festival |
| The composer whose First Symphony was nicknamed “Beethoven’s Tenth” | Johannes Brahms |
| The non-liturgical choral work by Brahms | Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) |
| The three-note musical motto used in Brahms’s Third Symphony | F–A–F (Frei aber froh) |
| The common name for Brahms’s Op. 49 No. 4, “Wiegenlied” | Brahms’ Lullaby |
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