IB Music Mozart and Beethoven – Flashcards
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Mozart was born in
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Salzburg, Austria
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By the age of six, Mozart could
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All answers are correct (play harpsichord and violin; improvise fugues and write minuets; read music perfectly at sight)
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Which of the following statements in NOT true?
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In his later years, Mozart was financially well off, widely acclaimed, and sought after by an adoring public.
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Between the ages of six and fifteen, Mozart
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was continually on tour in England and Europe
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Mozart tried to find fame and fortune by moving to _____, at the age of twenty-five
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Vienna
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Mozart composed his Requiem
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on commission from a stranger
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Mozart's Requiem was
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finished by one of his pupils
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Which of the following is NOT one of Mozart's three masterpieces of Italian opera?
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Orfeo
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Why did Mozart's music fall out of favor with Vienna audiences towards the end of his life?
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The Viennese thought that it was too complicated and contained too many dissonances.
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Don Giovanni, in Mozart's opera of that name, is
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a despotic Italian nobleman.
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Mozart's Symphony No. 40
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featured an emotional intensity uncommon for the time.
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The Third Symphony of Beethoven was originally composed to commemorate the deeds of the ______ as the embodiment of heroism and democratic ideals.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Beethoven
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All answers are correct (was a brilliant pianist; was self-educated and had ready widely, but was weak in elementary arithmetic; began to feel the first symptoms of deafness in his twenty-ninth year)
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Which of the following statements in NOT true? (Beethoven)
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Like Haydn and many other composers of the classical period, Beethoven depended on the aristocracy for his financial well-being.
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We have a record of Beethoven's struggle with his musical material because he
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described his struggles in letters to friends
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Beethoven's late works, composed after he was totally deaf, include
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All answers are correct (Missa solemnis; string quartets; the Ninth Symphony)
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Beethoven's sixteen _____ are generally considered among the greatest music ever composed.
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piano sonatas
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Beethoven is often credited as being
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the bridge between the classical and romantic periods.
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Beethoven's only opera is entitled
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Fidelio
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Beethoven, in comparison with earlier composers, was for more extensive and explicit in marking _______ in his scores.
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All answers are correct (dynamics, expressive indications, tempos)
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Beethoven greatly expanded the _______ section of the sonata-form movement and made it more dramatic
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development
