Name the most prominent successor of Gluck in opera.
Compare the two.
Describe the Singspiel.
Name some of Mozart’s operas.
Mention their characteristics and influence.
Give an account of Beethoven’s work in Opera.
Tell about Salieri, Cherubini, Spontini, Rossini.
Give the characteristics of Rossini’s operas.
What change in his style is evident in “William Tell”?
We now approach the period preceding the American and the French
Revolutions which so greatly affected the masses of Europe, an
influence extended by the wars of Napoleon. Music shows traces of the
powerful forces at work, losing the former artificiality and becoming
more and more, in the hands of Beethoven, an expression of dramatic and
personal feeling.