Joseph Turner

Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth

(1842)

• “soapsuds and whitewash! (anonymous critic)

• “the grandest statement of sea-motion, mist

and light, that has ever been put on canvas”
(John Ruskin, art critic)
 Final Jeopardy
Schubert Schumann Brahms Chopin Mussorgsky

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$100 Question from Schubert

What instruments did he play?

$100 Answer from Schubert

Piano, violin, voice

$200 Question from Schubert

Where did he spend

most of his life?
$200 Answer from Schubert

Vienna
 $300 Question from Schubert

What genre of music did he excel at?

$300 Answer from Schubert

Lieder
 $400 Question from Schubert

What disease did he suffer from?

$400 Answer from Schubert

Syphillis
 $500 Question from Schubert

What is it called when a song has

the same music for each stanza?
$500 Answer from Schubert

Strophic
 $600 Question from Schubert

What does the name Erlkönig mean?

 $600 Answer from Schubert

Probably something like Forest King

(not Elf King)
$100 Question from Schumann

Who was his piano teacher?

$100 Answer from Schumann

Friedrich Wieck
$200 Question from Schumann

Why didn’t Schumann

succeed as a concert pianist?
$200 Answer from Schumann

He injured his right hand.

 $300 Question from Schumann

In addition to being a composer, what

other career did Schumann have?
$300 Answer from Schumann

He was a music critic, and

founded a musical publication.
$400 Question from Schumann

What condition did

Schumann suffer from?
$400 Answer from Schumann

He was bi-polar, aka

manic/depressive.
$500 Question from Schumann

What two types of music is

he highly regarded for?
$500 Answer from Schumann

Songs
Short piano pieces
$600 Question from Schumann

What is Clara Schumann

justifiably famous for?
$600 Answer from Schumann

She was the world’s first

successful female concert pianist.
$100 Question from Brahms

What instruments did Brahms play?

$100 Answer from Brahms

Piano and cello

$200 Question from Brahms

Who wrote about Brahms’s

talent in a musical publication?
$200 Answer from Brahms

Schumann
$300 Question from Brahms

With whom did Brahms have an

especially close friendship?
$300 Answer from Brahms

Clara Schumann
$400 Question from Brahms

What is a waltz?
$400 Answer from Brahms

An instrumental dance,
in triple meter
$500 Question from Brahms

What musical resources are

required to perform Brahms’s
Liebeslieder Waltzes?
$500 Answer from Brahms

1 piano
2 pianists
4 singers (at least)
$600 Question from Brahms

What is a virtuoso?
$600 Answer from Brahms

Someone with extraordinary

ability on a musical instrument.
$100 Question from Chopin

What instrument did Chopin

exclusively write for?
$100 Answer from Chopin

Piano solo
$200 Question from Chopin

Where did he grow up?

$200 Answer from Chopin

Poland
$300 Question from Chopin

Where did he live and work

for most of his life?
$300 Answer from Chopin

Paris
$400 Question from Chopin

In addition to composing, what

did Chopin do to earn money?
$400 Answer from Chopin

He taught piano.
$500 Question from Chopin

What is an etude?
$500 Answer from Chopin

A pedagogical piece designed

to teach a certain skill.
$600 Question from Chopin

What is a character piece?

$600 Answer from Chopin

A short work for piano solo,

often in A – B – A form.
$100 Question from Mussorgsky

When he was young, what

did he do for a living?
$100 Answer from Mussorgsky

He was a military officer.

$200 Question from Mussorgsky

What country did he live in?

$200 Answer from Mussorgsky

Russia
$300 Question from Mussorgsky

He became friends with several

other composers, who became
known as…
$300 Answer from Mussorgsky

The Five
$400 Question from Mussorgsky

What disease did he fall prey

to in mid-life?
$400 Answer from Mussorgsky

Alcoholism
(and probably depression)
$500 Question from Mussorgsky

What instrument was Pictures at an

Exhibition originally written for?
$500 Answer from Mussorgsky

Piano solo
$600 Question from Mussorgsky

What is the name of the recurring

theme in Pictures at an Exhibition?
$600 Answer from Mussorgsky

Promenade