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Cherubini
Popularized Rescue Operas -
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Beethoven
Nine Symphonies -
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von Weber
Der Freischutz (1786-1826) -
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Meyerbeer
Les Huguenots (1836) -
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Rossini
The Barber of Seville (1813) -
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Schubert
"Erlkonig" Published 1815 -
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Donizetti
La fille du regiment (1839) -
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Bellini
Norma (1831) -
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Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique (1830) -
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Fannie Mendelssohn
Sister of Felix, composed 200 lieder, 100 solo works, and 24 chorus works. -
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Felix Mendelssohn
Brother of Fannie, took credit for sisters work, and was more of a conductor than a pianist. -
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The Romantic Period
-Genres: Romantic Music, Symphonic Poem/Tone Poem, Absolute Music, Program Music, Character Pieces, Art Songs, Opera, Lied/ Lieder
-Musical Stylistic Traits: More Minor Keys, Artistic Rule Breaking, Rubato and Expressive tempo, Wider Ranges, Complex Harmonies, Form was Long and Grandiose/ Thematic Unity, Melodic and Harmonic Chromaticism, Dynamic Contrasts
-Musical Inventions: Saxophone, Tuba, improved Oboe and Flute, LARGE Symphonies, Concert Halls -
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R. Schumann
Married to Clara, wrote piano pieces for her before he went crazy -
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C. Schumann
Married to Robert, Toured as pianist to support family, composed Piano Concerto at 15 years old. -
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Chopin
Nocturnes, Op. 9 (1831) -
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Liszt
La Campanella piano solo piece(1838) -
America Declares War on Britain
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Pride & Prejudice
Austen's novel Published -
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Verdi
Rigoletto (1851) -
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Wagner
The Ring Cycle:
Das Reingold(1853-54), Die Walkure(1854-56), Siegfried(1856-71), Gotterdammerung(1869-74) -
Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo
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Offenbach
Orphee aux enfors (1858) -
Monroe Doctrine enunciated in America
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Smetana
-Bohemian, Nationalist fighter
-Tone Poems -
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Stephen Foster
American Composer, folk tunes -
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Gottschalk
Child Prodigy who toured around the world but died because of Malaria in South America -
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's novel published -
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Brahms
Friend of Schumann's, Composed Symphony 3 in F Major in 1883 -
Siege of the Alamo
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Bizet
Carmen (1875) -
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Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake (1875-76), The Nutcracker (1892) -
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Dvorak
Symphony "From the New World" composed in 1893 -
Gold Discovered in California
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Puccini
Turandot (1926), Madama Butterfly (1904), La Boheme (1896) -
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Mahler
Symphony No. 5 (1902) -
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Bartok
Romanian Folk Dances (1915)