The course of Brahms's artistic and personal life was shaped by the influence of the composer - Answers
In Vienna, Johannes Brahms - Answers
In comparison to some earlier composers, Brahms's musical output may be considered small. This is
explained in part by the fact that Brahms - Answers
Music critics of the day pitted Brahms's fondness for traditional forms agains - Answers
Brahms wrote masterpieces in many musical forms, but never any - Answers
Brahms's works, though very personal in style, are rooted in the music of - Answers
Brahms's musical trademarks included - Answers
The original score for the theme of the fourth movement of Brahms's "Fourth Symphony" was a -
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The fourth movement of Brahms's "Fourth Symphony" is a _______________, a baroque variation form
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Verdi studied music in ______________, the city of Italy's most important opera house, La Scala, is
located - Answers
Verdi's first great success, an opera with strong political overtones, was - Answers
Critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of Verdi's operas because they - Answers
Verdi's great comic masterpieces, written when he was seventy-nine, is - Answers
The librettist Giuseppe Verid's operas "Otello" and "Falstaff" was - Answers
Verdi's opera commissioned to commemorate the completion of the Suez canal is - Answers
Giuseppe Verdi mainly composed his operas - Answers
The soul of a Verdi opera is - Answers
Verdi's later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have - Answers
The famous aria "La donna e mobile" is taken from Verdi's opera - Answers
Giacomo Puccini's first successful opera was - Answers
Giacomo Puccini, in his operas - Answers
, An artistic trend of the 1890's, in which operas dealt with ordinary people and true-to-life situations,
was known as - Answers
The movement in opera known as "verismo" is best exemplified by - Answers
Some of Puccini's operas feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythmic elements derived from
Japanese and Chinese music in his operas - Answers
In Puccini's "La Boheme", Rodolfo is a young - Answers
Wagner's pre-eminence was such that an opera house of his own design was built in _______________,
solely for performances of his music dramas - Answers
Wagner envisioned the music drama as a "Gesamtkunstwerk", or "universal art work", in which -
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The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was - Answers
Richard Wagner's first successful opera was - Answers
Richard Wagner's last opera was - Answers
Wagner called his works "music dramas" rather than operas because - Answers
A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas,
is called - Answers
Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the Romantic period is
called - Answers
Non-program music is also known as _________________ music - Answers
A ________________ is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or
pictorial idea. - Answers
The composer who developed the symphonic poem was - Answers
Music intended to be performed before and during a play to set the mood for scenes or highlight
dramatic action is known as - Answers
Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of - Answers
In 1830 the Paris Conservatory awarded Berlioz - Answers
The writer whose works had the greatest impact on the young Berlioz was - Answers
The "Fantastic Symphony" reflects Berlioz's - Answers
Parisians were startled by Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" because of its - Answers