music part 2

Composers:
>Franz Peter Schubert
	-considered to be the last Classical composers and first romantic ones
	-born on Jan. 31, 1797 in Himmelpfortgrund, Austria and died in 1828 in Vienna, Austria at the age of 31
	-famous vocal works:
		>Gretchen and Spinnrade
		>Erlkonig
		>Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria)
		>Schwanenge sang (Swan Song)

	*Lieder
		-proper name for Schubert songs
		-German word for song

>Giuseppe Verdi
	-born in Parma, Italy on Oct 9, 1813
	-studied in Busseto and later went to Milan
	-characters are ordinary people and not from the royal family
	-insisted on a good libretto and wrote operas with political overtones and for middle-class audience
	-almost all works are serious love story with an unhappy ending
	-expressive vocal melody is its soul
	-famous vocal works:
		>La Traviata
		>Rioletto
		>Falstaff
		>Otello and Aida were he wrote for Suez Canal's opening

	*Oberto
		-Verdi's first opera which was performed in La Scala
	*La Scala
		-most important opera house
	*"All the world's a joke."
		-Verdi's final opera ended with this

>Giacomo Puccini
	-born on Dec 22, 1858 in Lucca, Italy in a poor family
	-studied at Milan Conservatory
	-belonged to a group who stressed realism
	-drew material from everyday life and rejecting heroic themes from mythology and history
	-famous opera:
		>La Boheme
		>Tosca
		>Madame Butterfly
		>Turandot

>Richard Wagner
	-born in Leipzig, Germany on May 22, 1813
	-attended Leipzig University
	-inspired by Beethoven
	-explored the limits of the traditional tonal system
	-work would influence Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings
	-developed a compositional style where the orchestra has equal importance
	-died from a heart attack on Jan 13, 1883 at the age of 69
	-famous works:
		>Tristan and Isolde
		>Die Walkyrie
		>Die Meistersinger
		>Tannhauser
		>Parsifal

	*Music drama
		-musical and drama fuse
		-Wagner is an advocate to this opera form

>George Bizet
	-registered with the legal name Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet
	-famous opera is "Carmen"
	-died after Carmen's first round of performance at the age of 36

	*Carmen
		-opened in Paris and was harshly criticized
		-opened in Vienna, Austria after four months and became a smash hit
		-one of the most popular opera that dominated Philippine theater over

*Sarsuwela
	-also known as "drama simbolico"
	-traditional theater genre that dominated the Philippines over 100 years
	-first introduced by Dario Despedes
	-commonly based on domestic issues

Famous Sarsuwela Writers:
	>Benigno Zamora
	>Severino Reyes
	>Clodualdo del Mundo

*Dalagang BUkkid
	-arguable the most popular sarsuwela in Tagalog