beethoven

Question 1

beethoven

Answer 1

1792 – George Washington is president of the United States,
* Haydn was at the height of his fame,
* Mozart had been dead since the previous December.
* Pianist Ludwig Beethoven traveled from the city Bonn on the Rhine to Vienna,
* Industrial revolution, which was well under in progress, people believed in progress and cultivated enthusiasm for the future,

Question 2

Beethoven 1770 - 1827

Answer 2

• Symphonies are larger and grander,
• Lack the speed of Mozart and Hydn,
• Writing music after serious struggle in life,

Question 3

Piano sonatas

Answer 3

• Large group of compositions in Vienna were sonatas,
• Dedicated first three piano sonatas to Hydn – creating themes from brief motives that he develops a lot,
• 4 movements as in a symphony instead of 3, in the last two he replaced the minuet with dynamic scherzo,

Question 4

String and quartets and symphonies

Answer 4

• Waited until he was established to compose string q,

o Slow movement – inspired by the tomb scene of Romeo and Juliet,

Question 5

1803 – symphony NO. 3 in e flat major

Answer 5

• Eventually named sinfonia eroica,
• It has a subject, the celebration of a hero, heroic greatness,
• Longer and more compled than any,

first mov
 sonata form
 story tells about challenge and struggle, first theme as the main character,
 it emerges in a triadic shape of a fanfare, implying a heroic character,
 sinks down suddenly, suggesting a flaw or inner conflict,

Question 6

chamber music

Answer 6

• Three string quartets of op.59 dedicated for the musical amateur count rasumovsky, the Russian ambassador to Vienna,

Question 7

The middle Symphonies – 1806 – 1808

Answer 7

• Fourth, fifth and sixth symphonies,
• Humor and jovality for the 4th
• Struggle with fate in the fifth c minor one,

Question 8

piano concertos

Answer 8

• during his decade in Vienna, he composed three concertos,
• written on the grander scale,
• No 5 in e flat major and op 73 violin concerto in d major,
• soloist pitted against orchestra,
• In the first movement of the emperor concerto, for example the soloist enters with a cadenza like passage even before the orchestra exposition begins,

Question 9

late styles

Answer 9

continuitym
feelings of vastness,