Music History III Final

According to your text, musicology was established in the 19th century and at that time scholars began study of earlier composers. Name two of the composers (from the Renaissance or the Baroque period) listed in your text as composers that came under study by 19th century musicologists.

According to your text, the most important and “articulate proponent” of absolute music in the second half of the 19th century was what famous music critic? [lastname]

Name the composer who wrote an essay defending Berlioz’s Harold Symphony’suse of program music and the “instrumental poem”? [last name]

What was Franz Liszt’s country of origin?

What were Liszt’s birth and death years?

Who was Liszt’s piano teacher (who happened to be a student of Beethoven)?

With which well known composer of the time did Liszt study theory and counterpoint? [last name]

In which court was Liszt music director from approximately 1848 to 1861?

Liszt wrote 13 symphonic works for orchestra (such as Orpheus and Hamlet). Not called “symphonies,” name this 19th century form that he helped to develop.

Who was the virtuoso violinist Liszt admired during his early years and sought to match in virtuosity at the piano? [last name]

Which early 19th century composer’s lieder did Liszt write piano transcriptions/arrangements of? [last name]

According to class lectures, in the poem, “Mazeppa,” on which Liszt’s musical composition, Mazeppa, is based, at the end of the relentless horse ride, what happens to the rider?

Who was the original poet of the poem, “Mazeppa”, upon which Liszt’s composition was based?

What was Liszt’s method of unifying a composition?

Clara Schumann was a famous performer on what instrument?