Question
Which of the following composers was most famous for writing operas?
a. Beethoven
b. Haydn
c. Schubert
d. Mozart
a. Beethoven
b. Haydn
c. Schubert
d. Mozart
Answers
Reed
If your text materials don't discuss these composers and their works, I advise you to "google" each of them and find out what they wrote. For example, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a lot of instrumental/orchestral work, but only one opera.
Reed
BTW, Beethoven's <i>Fidelio</i> is very good. I like it a lot. :)
bobpursley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operas_by_Mozart
bobpursley
anonymous: Haydn wrote and "directed" a number of operas, but they were not lasting, and seldom performed in the last 60 years. Haydn's operas are only occasionally performed today. They are not well known. In fact, I have only seen one live in my lifetime, and on radio, or serious music distributors, maybe once a year I hear one.
Shubert? I think he wrote 17,but only two are well known, and one of those for a single aria (Franz Schubert -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMwUFJfN1hs>, and the other, Fierrabras is occasionally performed, the last major performance was in Salzberg, 2014.
So the Audience says: Mozart. Now, Anonymous could be right, your teacher is very weird and loves something about the other three, but that would be most strange. Your text could also be on a tangent also. But Mozart is the best known.
Shubert? I think he wrote 17,but only two are well known, and one of those for a single aria (Franz Schubert -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMwUFJfN1hs>, and the other, Fierrabras is occasionally performed, the last major performance was in Salzberg, 2014.
So the Audience says: Mozart. Now, Anonymous could be right, your teacher is very weird and loves something about the other three, but that would be most strange. Your text could also be on a tangent also. But Mozart is the best known.