IB Music Mozart And Beethoven

Salzburg, Austria

All answers are correct (play harpsichord and violin; improvise fugues and write minuets; read music perfectly at sight)

In his later years, Mozart was financially well off, widely acclaimed, and sought after by an adoring public.

was continually on tour in England and Europe

Vienna

on commission from a stranger

finished by one of his pupils

Orfeo

The Viennese thought that it was too complicated and contained too many dissonances.

a despotic Italian nobleman.

featured an emotional intensity uncommon for the time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All answers are correct (was a brilliant pianist; was self-educated and had ready widely, but was weak in elementary arithmetic; began to feel the first symptoms of deafness in his twenty-ninth year)

Like Haydn and many other composers of the classical period, Beethoven depended on the aristocracy for his financial well-being.

described his struggles in letters to friends

All answers are correct (Missa solemnis; string quartets; the Ninth Symphony)

piano sonatas

the bridge between the classical and romantic periods.

Fidelio

All answers are correct (dynamics, expressive indications, tempos)

development