Music Appreciation

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Who was a widely loved nationalist opera composer ?
Giuseppe verdi
What is NOT a well-known Verdi opera ?
Carmen
Richard Wagner's first operatic success was a grand opera entitled
Rienzi
In addition to composing music, who was an important writer ?
Wagner
In the ring cycle, who is the father of gods ?
Wotan
Who was NOT a composer of Italian opera in the late Romantic era ?
Georges Bizet
Who is NOT an opera by Giacomo Puccini ?
Pagliacci
Puccini's what ends tragically ?
Madame Butterfly
The two principa centers of nineteenth-century ballet were ?
France and Russia
Peter Tchaikovsky was famous for his ?
Ballets
Tchaikovsky's fanciful ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exortic people and places is called ?
The nutcracker.
What is the movement that, along with post-romanticism, ushered in the twentieth-century ?
Impressionism
Who was a dynamic composer and conductor who seved as director of both Vienna Opera and the New York Philharmonic ?
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler;s song of the Earth sets text by ?
A chinese poet
Impressionism was a style cultivated principally in ?
Paris