2. Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Lived a troubled life
Composed almost one
thousand works
Symphonies, sonatas, operas,
masses, choral compositions, and
over 600 Lieder.
3. Lieder
The “art song”
A composition for solo voice with piano
accompaniment and poetic text
Franz Schubert’s Der Erlkönig
(The Elf King) - listen to - read poem
in book
Through-composed setting—new
music for each stanza to capture the
poem’s mounting excitement
Listen to Gretchen am Spinnrade
4. Frederic Chopin
French composer
Wrote almost exclusively
for the piano
Wrote “etudes” (studies)
Each explored a single technical
problem, usually set around a single
motif.
These etudes became short tone poems
Listen to Etude #3 in E Major,Op 10,
Ballade No.1 in G Minor OP.23
6. Program Music
Started with Beethoven, but
developed by Hector Berlioz, Richard
Strauss, and Peter Tchaikovsky
Longer works built around a
nonmusical story, a picture, or some
other idea
Descriptive
Listen to Berlioz’s Symphonie
fantastique: IV
7. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Best known for his 1812 Overture,
The Nutcracker (ballet), and Swan
Lake (ballet)
All three pieces are Program Music
8. Romantic Opera
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto, "La donna è mobile“
(read in book & listen)
About a hunch-backed court jester who loves his
daughter Gilda very much. The daughter is
deceptively seduced by the evil duke when the
duke disguises himself as a student. Rigoletto
plots his revenge to kill the duke. Unfortunately,
Gilda never learns the truth and actually gives her
life for the duke. Virtue does not triumph here.
Verdi-La Traviata
Verdi-Requiem
Verdi-Il trovatore