Exam 16: The Eighteenth Century

What important French Realist novelist described the banal life of bourgeois middle-class Emma Bovary?

Who composed the Symphonie fantastique?

Who are two early developers of photography?

Which Romantic artist used his paintings to criticize the Spanish court and to explore the darker side of life, including his own suffering?

_______________________ German term for a musical theme assigned to a specific character, idea or object

Which French Romantic painter is remembered for The Massacre at Chios?

What is a bel canto opera? Which great opera singer brought this form back into the modern operatic repertoire?

What did Chopin, Mussorgsky, and Smetana have in common?

What of the following were parts of the basis for the German literary movement known as Sturm und Drang?

_______________________ Short melancholic piano piece in a form used extensively by Chopin

What are the principal characteristics of Romanticism?

_______________________ Theory of Charles Darwin about the origin of species

_______________________ Lighthearted musical genre used by Beethoven in the third movement of his "Eroica" symphony

Who is usually regarded as the pioneer of musical romanticism?

Which opera composer of the nineteenth century was most closely associated with the nationalist movement in Italy?

_______________________ Short art songs with piano accompaniment, such as the 600 composed by Schubert

_______________________ Source of inspiration for the stories in Richard Wagner's operas

Which French Realist novelist wrote over 90 novels and stories, in which he uses many of the same characters?

Who, with Coleridge, was the co-founder of the Romantic movement in English poetry?

What were common themes of the novels of George Sand?