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Undergraduate 2
11/11/2012

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Rossini
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Who made Barber of Seville (opera)?
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Verdi
Definition
Who made Aida (opera)?
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Verdi
Definition
Who made Otello (opera)?
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Verdi
Definition
Who made Falstaff (opera)?
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Puccini
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Who wrote Turandot (opera)?
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Wagner
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Who wrote Der Ring des Nibelungen (4 opera cycle)?
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Wagner
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Who wrote Die Meistersinger (comic opera)?
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Offenbach
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Who made Orpheus (opera)?
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Bizet
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Who wrote Carmen (opera)?
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Scriabin
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Who wrote the Mystic Chord?
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Tchiakovsky
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Who composed The Nutcracker, Swan Lake
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Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin
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Who comprised the Russian Five?
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Verdi
Definition
Who made Requiem Mass?
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Russian
Definition
What nationality was Glinka?
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Glinka
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Who was the first important Russian Nationalist composer and influence on the Mighty Handful?
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Glinka
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Who wrote The Life of the Tsar, the first important Russian opera?
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Glinka
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Who wrote the opera Rusian and Ludmilla
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Balakirev
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Spokesman and leader of the five
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Cui
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Publicist of the Five, music critic
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Borodin
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Chemical scientist, composed as a hobby. Member of the five.
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Rimski-Korsakov
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Professor at Moscow Convervatory, writer of "My Musical Life", which tells of the mighty handful. Stravinky's teacher.
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Musorgsky
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Most original and greatest member of the five. Virtuoso pianist, alchoholic, many unfinished pieces.
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Rimski-Korsakov
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Who wrote the progmattic suite Sheherzade?
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Musorgsky
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Who wrote Pictures at an Exhibition
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Musorgsky, RK
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Who wrote opera Boris Godunov, and who revised it?
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Russia
Definition
Where is Tchaikovsky from?
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Tchaikovsky, he died
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Who wrote Symphony 9 Pathetique, what happened after?
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Tchaikovsky
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1812 Overture
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Russia, Russian nationalist school
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Where was Scriabin from? What did he show little interest in?
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Czech
Definition
Where was Smetana from?
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Drovak, America
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Who wrote the New World Symphony? Where was it written?
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Smetana
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Who wrote Ma Viast, with six symphonic poems, like the one about the river MOLDAU
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The Bartered Bride, Smetana
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What was the first great 19th century Czech opera, and who made it?
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Czech, Brahms, keyboard/viola
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Where is Drovak from? Who was he buds with? What did he play?
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Smetana
Definition
Who was the first great Czech composer?
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Moravian, the melodies/rhythms of folk music
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What nationality was Janacek? What was he really interested in?
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Janacek
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Who wrote Sinfonietta and and Taras Bulba
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Norway, Norway's greatest composer
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Where is Grieg from? What distinction does he hold?
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Grieg
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Who wrote incidental music to Peer Grynt and Piano Concierto in A Minor?
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England, first major English composer since Parcell
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Where was Elgar from? What distinction did he hold?
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Elgar
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Who wrote 9 symphonies, a cello concierto, and Variations on an Original Theme (The Enigma Variations)
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English
Definition
What nationality is Williams?
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Strauss wrote these tone poems
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Who wrote the tone poems Don Juan, Don Quizote, and sprach Zarathustra
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German
Definition
What nationality was Strauss?
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Strauss
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Who was chromatic, dissonant and modern in his first half and more romantic in his second period?
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Strauss wrote these operas
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Who wrote the operas Salome, Elektra, and Der Rosenkavalier
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Czech
Definition
What nationality was Mahler?
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Mahler
Definition
Who wrote Das Lied vvon der Erde and 9 symphonies?
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Mahler
Definition
Who was a great conductor, famous largely through the efforts of Leonard Bernstein
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Danish
Definition
What nationality was Nielsen?
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Nielsen
Definition
who was the greatest Danish composer?
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Nielsen
Definition
Wro wrote 6 symphonies and flute/clarinet conciertos?
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Finnish
Definition
What nationality is Sibelius?
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Sibelius
Definition
Who was the greatest Finnish composer?
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Wolf
Definition
was a follower of Wagner who used his techniques in the "Spanish Songbook" and "Italian Songbook"
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Bruckner
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Who used Wagner techniques in symphony and religious music, with 9 numbered symhonies?
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Wagner
Definition
Who wrote his own libretti based on Norse mythology or legends?
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Wagner
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Who wrote Music Dram
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Wagner
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Who designed his own theater in the town of Bayreuth
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