1) DINNERTIME!
It is 1849 in Paris, and you have somehow been able to invite the forty-something Hector Berlioz, the thirty-something Franz Liszt, the thirty-something Frideric Chopin—who does not know that he is about to die—and the sixteen-year-old Brahms to dinner. describe the evening. Your description should demonstrate what you have learned, from Kamien and other sources, about the personalities of the composers, about the type of music they most often wrote, and musical issues they might agree or disagree about.
2) Listen to the music of the Romantic era found on your digital source or on the Youtube links below, as follows:
Franz Schubert, Erlkönig (“Wer reitet so spät”), song for voice & piano, D. 328 (Op. 1) Erlkönig – Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann from Carnaval for piano, Op. 9: Estrella, Reconnaissance “Estrella” from Schumann’s “Carnaval.” “Reconnaissance” from Schumann’s “Carnaval.”
Clara Wieck Schumann, Liebst du um Schönheit, song for voice & piano, Op. 12/4 Clara Wieck Schumann : Liebst du um Schönheit
Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne for piano No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109 Chopin Nocturne E Flat Major Op.9 No.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVBzE0mUlSs
Frédéric Chopin, Etude for piano No. 12 in C minor (“Revolutionary”), Op. 10/12, CT. 25
Chopin Revolutionary Etude op 10 no 12 LIVE Anastasia Huppmann 4K HD
Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique for orchestra (“Episode de la vie d’un Artiste…en cinq parties”), H.48 (Op. 14): fourth movement, March to the Scaffold [Part 1] Berlioz: “Symphonie Fantastique” : 4th Mvt.- Leonard Bernstein
Felix Mendelssohn, Hebrides Overture Mendelssohn’s Overture Fingal’s Cave – Staffa Inner Hebrides Mendelssohn’s Overture Fingal’s Cave – Staffa Inner Hebrides
Edmond Dédé, Méphisto Masqué https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTF–c32huI (the first of the two piano pieces on this recording; it ends at 4:20)
Richard Wagner, Flight of the Valkyries from the opera Lohengrin Wilhelm Richard Wagner-Flight of the Valkyries
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in E flat, B. 34 (Op. 10), 3rd movement Brahms Symphony#3: movement 3
You are assigned the task of putting together a concert of Romantic era music, to include five of the above ten pieces. Which five do you choose, and for each one, why do you think they should be in the concert? For each of the five that you do not choose, why did you not choose the piece to be in the concert?
3) Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, and Wagner all lived dissolute lives by, among other things, either running after women, and/or stealing from their friends, and/or expecting everyone else to take care of them, some of which might be considered “side effects” of the philosophy of Romanticism. By contrast, Wieck, Mendelssohn, and Brahms all lived generally virtuous lives, which might be considered “side effects” of their Christian beliefs. (Liszt spent the first half of his life in the first camp, then got religion and spent the second half of his life in the second camp.) What effect that you can hear, if any, did the lifestyles of the two groups of composers have on their music? If you had to choose between being religiously virtuous and a good composer and being dissolute and a great composer, which would you choose, and why?
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