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Composer: Ludvig Van Beethoven
Moved music towards romanticism
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Used the heroic topic in music
9 symphonies
32 Piano sonatas -
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Composer: E.T.A Hoffmann
German writer and composer
Nutcracker fable
Writing epitomize Romanticism -
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Carl Maria von Weber
Founder of German Romantic Opera
Studied under Michael Hayden -
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Composer: Gioachino Rossini
The most famous composer in Vienna in the early 19th Century
Composed mostly choral and opera -
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Gactano Donizcetti
Student of Mayr
Verdi's Immediate forerunner
a prolific composer in all genres
70 operas and symphonies -
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Composer: Franz Schubert
Austrian Composer who created a genre of artistic and dramatic Lieder
over 600 lieder
9 symphonies -
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Composer: Hector Berlioz
French Composer Conductor and writer -
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Composer: Mikhail Glinka
father of Russian music
European trained and Prolific -
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Composer: Felix Mendelsohn
Early romantic
important as a conductor
revived bachs music
German Composer with Jewish heritage -
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The Romantic era
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Composer: Robert Schumann
Editor, Critic and Composer
lost his sanity at a young age
4 Symphonies
not a good opera -
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Composer: Frederic Francois Chopin
Polish/French composer
pianist
innovated new techniques
piano pieces -
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Composer: Franz Liszt
Virtuoso pianist
Supporter of Wagner
the inventor of Orchestral tone poem -
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Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
The leading Italian opera composer
of the 19th century
national hero of Italy -
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Composer: Richard Wagner
Creator of German Music Drama
Conductor
Wrote about music of the future
Anti-Semite
Profoundly influenced western harmony
strove for endless meodies
operas
2 really bad symphonies -
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Composer: Charles Gounod
prolific composer
written in most genre in the era -
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Musician: Clara Wieck Schumann
Virtuoso pianist
Wife of Robert
friend of brahms -
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Composer: Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer and organist
follower of wagner
known for large orchestrations -
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Bedrich Smetana
Czech composer
established Czech opera
nationalist -
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Composer: Johann Strauss
Viennese composer
the "Waltz King" -
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Composer: Johannes Brahms
Austrian composer
first editors of bachs music
never wrote an opera
friends with schumanns -
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Composer: Camille Saint Saens
French composer
pianist and organist -
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Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
One of the russian mighty five
most famous of the five -
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Teacher: John Knowles Paine
First music professor at Harvard -
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Antonin Dvorak
Most famous of the Czech composers
lived in the USA
influenced by African American and Native American culture -
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Composer: Nikolay Rimsky Korsakov
Russian mighty Five
important as a teacher -
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Composer: Gabriel Faure
French composer
important as a teacher and head of Paris conservatory
foreshadowed modern tonality -
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Composer: John Philip Sousa
American leader of US marine band in 1880 -
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Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Italian opera composer
gift for delicate composers
Strove for realism
most successful italian opera composer after Verdi