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Romantic Chamber Music

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1. 19th century composers tended to be either conservative or liberal in their approach to Romanticism. Chamber music was more appealing to those with a conservative orientation. :

True
False

2. A composer who was strongly influenced by Haydn in both his piano sonatas and his chamber works was:

Berlioz
Liszt
Schubert
Chopin

3. The unusual instrument in the Schubert Trout Quintet is the

clarinet
bass
second violin
second viola

4. The Trout Quintet contains variations on Schubert's own song:

Die Forelle
Der Fischer
Gretchen am Spinnrade
Du bist die Ruh'

5. Schubert's Quartet in D minor contains a set of variations on his grim song:

Schwanengesang
Der Erlkönig
Der Tod und das Mädchen
Der Post

6. Schubert's Octet is scored for string quartet, bass, bassoon, horn, and clarinet.

True
False

7. Schubert's masterwork in the area of chamber music, written during the last year of his life was :

String Quintet in C major
Quartet in D minor
Quartet in G major
Octet in F major

8. Schumann's "chamber music year" was:

1839
1840
1842
1843

9. The true Romantic successor to Beethoven in the areas of chamber music and orchestral music is:

Mendelssohn
Franck
Schubert
Brahms

10. Brahms's First Piano Quartet contains a rondo finale based on:

his song Feldeinsamkeit
a Hungarian theme built of 3 measure phrases
the Austrian national anthem
the name of BACH

11. Brahms's Trio Op. 40 is scored for piano, violin and

viola
Waldhorn
clarniet
flute

12. The founder of modern French chamber music was:

Franck
Faure
Gounod
Dukas

13. The technique of having themes recur identically or in a transformed version in two or more movements is called

leitmotiv development
serial technique
minimalism
cyclical method